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Bellum Eternus Gallente Blood Corsair's The Red Skull	Posted - 2007.09.11 08:08:00 - [1] Originally by: DeltaH It sounds more like having a drone bay of 150m3 while only being able to have 75m3 (bandwidth) in space at a time. So for instance you could have 6 heavy drones in your bay, but only 3 out at a time. So it decouples the drone bay from being the single determining factor of the drone setup you can field. If only every knee jerk poster was a bright as you. Actually, if that were true, there wouldn't be these r3tarded knee jerk posts, now would there? [Video]Blood Corsairs - Day One
Bellum Eternus Gallente Blood Corsair's The Red Skull	Posted - 2007.09.11 11:07:00 - [2] Can we get this thread locked? [Video]Blood Corsairs - Day One
Bellum Eternus Gallente Blood Corsair's The Red Skull	Posted - 2007.09.11 11:32:00 - [3] Originally by: Cpt Branko Edited by: Cpt Branko on 11/09/2007 11:16:26 Edited by: Cpt Branko on 11/09/2007 11:15:55 It's a buff to drone ships most likely, since I see the bandwidth staying the same and drone bays increasing. Then again, if bandwidth decreases by a small amount, they'll stay alright. It just might render the 'shoot drones' tactic less useful, since there may be massive room for replacements if they increase drone bays. Could we at least then get rid of the scoop & redeploy trick? I didn't know drone-ships were in need of help, but oh well The only ships this will help are those with small drone bays. That is: non-drone ships, and possibly the Myrmidon. But with all the whining going on, I don't see the devs giving the Myrm more drone bay space (they could have when they made it, and they didn't) and let it keep it's 5x heavies in the air. I predict that they reduce it's allowed drones in space to 4x heavies or 3x, and increase it's drone bay space. The Myrm will see a big nerf with Rev3. Mostly due to lame sniveling whiners like yourself. Personally I can't stand the Myrm. No backup for it's 5x Heavies, no additional drone groups if you use 5x Heavies, no gun bonus. It's a lousy drone ship. It's DPS is going to get nerfed for Rev3. Bandwidth has been custom designed to do just that. [Video]Blood Corsairs - Day One
Bellum Eternus Gallente Blood Corsair's The Red Skull	Posted - 2007.09.11 11:55:00 - [4] No way will the devs give the Myrm more drone bay space and keep the number/size of drones able to be used the same as current (i.e. 5x heavy). If they would, they would have already. If they did, I might actually fly one. But they won't. No way will they buff it. I do agree that for most other ships, probably all other ships, they're going to have their current number/size of flyable drones remain the same, while their drone bay is increased some. This will be hard on smaller ships trying to kill large ships solo, and somewhat remove the advantages of ships like the Dominix, Eos and Ishtar with their larger drone bays, unless theirs is increased even more than it is currently. Which I don't think will happen. [Video]Blood Corsairs - Day One
Bellum Eternus Gallente Blood Corsair's The Red Skull	Posted - 2007.09.11 17:49:00 - [5] Originally by: CCP Hammer 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. LOL. Hammer has just said (very clearly): We're nerfing the Myrmidon and the Eos. I expected the Myrm to get nerfed, but not the Eos. Wow. Guess I'll never have the chance to fly the Eos with 5x heavies. [Video]Blood Corsairs - Day One
Bellum Eternus Gallente Blood Corsair's The Red Skull	Posted - 2007.09.11 19:45:00 - [6] Originally by: oniplE Originally by: Bellum Eternus Originally by: CCP Hammer 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. LOL. Hammer has just said (very clearly): We're nerfing the Myrmidon and the Eos. I expected the Myrm to get nerfed, but not the Eos. Wow. Guess I'll never have the chance to fly the Eos with 5x heavies. Why would the eos be nerfed? Its drone bonus is very different from the myrmidon's. I'm not saying that it should be nerfed. I'm saying that Hammer will nerf it. (The Eos that is) It's going to be a shame if the Myrm finally gets a larger drone bay, only to be limited to 5x mediums in space or something silly like that, but oh well. The Eos on the other hand has a pretty weak tank compared to the other fleet command ships, and I'm predicting that it'll get it's drone 'bandwidth' reduced to the point that it'll only be able to use 5x mediums, maybe 4x heavies. Either way I see it getting nerfed, just because of Hammers cryptic yet carefully worded statement. The only thing that really would make me worried is if they limited the Ishtar and the number of heavies it could deploy. If the Ishtar gets nerfed, I'm going to be very disappointed. Right now I'm at a crossroads with my training. If they nerf the Eos and the Ishtar, it will significantly change my skill path. Come to think of it, they're going to nerf damps too, so that will really hurt my skilling as well. [Video]Blood Corsairs - Day One
Bellum Eternus Gallente Blood Corsair's The Red Skull	Posted - 2007.09.12 06:21:00 - [7] Personally I'm just going to wait and see what happens. So far everyone is just guessing as to how the devs will actually apply the drone bandwidth system. It could go any number of ways, but I don't see any Gallente ships getting any sort of buff out of this save the Vexor, and possibly the Ishkur or something similar. For all we know, they could leave the Gallente ships alone and add more drone bay space to the three other races (which IMO would be bad, as that further blurs the line between the specialized drone ships and the rest), or buff everything, adding even more drone space to the Gal ships while adding some to the other races as well. Oveur said it was an "un-nerf" to drone ships, then Hammer turned right back around and said that 'ships are going to be balanced', which we all know to mean 'nerfed to hell'. We don't know what ships and to what degree anything will be changed, and until we have some hard numbers on Sisi, it's useless to speculate. The good news is that the devs have indicated what they meant by 'bandwidth' and it's use to decouple drone bay space from maxium number/size of drones able to be deployed. Quite a few people seem to think that these upcoming drone changes/fixes will be a big buff to Gallente. I don't think it will work out that way. Time will tell however. [Video]Blood Corsairs - Day One
Bellum Eternus Gallente Blood Corsair's The Red Skull	Posted - 2007.09.14 19:27:00 - [8] Originally by: Gypsio III Quote: From what I've read it seems to limit your drones launch ability based on activity in the system or server or something. Oh dear. Btw, I bet that training for Nos was tough... Gives us Gallente peeps a bad name. The internet is a straaaaange place. Bellum Eternus [Vid]Blood Corsairs - Day One
Bellum Eternus Gallente Death of Virtue	Posted - 2007.11.06 17:20:00 - [9] Originally by: Xaen Originally by: Paulo Damarr I dont think its a nerf Quote: "With this, bandwidth determines the number of drones you can control, allowing the dronebay to be considerably increased on drone ships" Except they didn't actually increase the size of the drone bay on any ship that I'm aware of. Pure nerf. One, the Vexor. It's still a nerf to drone users. Plain and simple. They could have just as easily made it a buff, but they didn't. Bellum Eternus [Vid] L E G E N D A R Y [Vid] L E G E N D A R Y I I

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