Originally by: CCP Hammer

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Originally by: Hllaxiu

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Edited by: Hllaxiu on 11/09/2007 01:09:27
Basically its a balancing factor for the Arbitrator Hull, Vexor, and Myrmidon. Lets say you only want these two ships to field medium drones. That means that you can realistically have a maximum drone bay of 75m3. This leaves no room for spares - dedicated heavy drone carriers however do get room for spares. If 50m3 of drone bandwidth is assigned to the above ships, their drone bays can be increased without turning them into heavy drone carriers (Ishtar, Dominix).

The Mymridon and Eos are the ships, if any, to receive a nerf out of this change - I expect the nonIshtar cruiser based drone boats to be boosted quite a bit with this change, as they will be able to carry spares now. This will also allow the Myrmidon to be rebalanced against medium drones. Good thing in my opinion.

I realize that the blog said "number of drones" but I'm betting that this is how things are going to end up, one way or another (perhaps a conversion factor between light/medium/heavy drones).

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This is fairly spot on. Expect a dev blog about this from the relevant dev before the patch hits. We're not doing this to try and nerf people.

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Originally by: Drachma Golea

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Originally by: Shadowsword

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Originally by: Surreptitious

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Will the Myrmidon and Eos be capable of fielding 5 Heavy Drones after this change?

Syrup

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Very probably not. And a dman good thing. Now their dps will be more on par with the others tier2 BC and fleet command ships.

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Huh, so you train for an Eos, with the knowledge of the power it has, and you say, well you shouldn't have that knowledge, you should be nerfed?

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Originally by: Drachma Golea

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Edited by: Drachma Golea on 11/09/2007 17:42:21

Originally by: CCP Hammer

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Specific balance changes can be discussed ad nauseam in the resulting forum thread based on not only the upcoming blog but also your testing on SISI. Like I said before we aren't doing this just to nerf you. I'm sure you will all agree it stands to reason that having balanced ships is better than having one ship that is far better than all other other ships in it's class.

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That's like saying, your co-workers make less money than you do, because you bought yourself in at a good price... but we are sorry now, we are going to make your salary a little lower now... so that you are in balance with your other co-workers... That simply goes beyond my comprehension... normally your co-workers will get up to your salary, not the other way round?

edit - typo's

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