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Wil Smithx
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Posted - 2008.07.24 14:02:00 -
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Ok I know that drone bandwidth was a stealth nerf, but come on ccp, lets see some of those frigs with some space for spare drones. I think all frigs with drone bandwidth should get at least a 5m3 boost to dronebays.
What do you peeps think?
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Dirk Magnum
Spearhead Endeavors
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Posted - 2008.07.24 14:05:00 -
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Edited by: Dirk Magnum on 24/07/2008 14:05:52
I think that with one or two other exceptions, the only frigate that actually got hit by the bandwidth feature was the Ishkur. Because of that, I don't think your idea has much value.
What I mean is, all the frigates currently available after bandwidth can still launch just as many as they did before (except for an Ishkur fielding multiple medium drones, and that Amarr EWar frig with the big drone bay... Sentinel or whatever, IIRC.)
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Wil Smithx
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Posted - 2008.07.24 14:14:00 -
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My pain point was that bandwidth was ''supposedly'' brought in to buff all ships in general by allowing them to carry spare drones. But the only ships to see that were the vexor, arbitrator and ?, 1 or 2 other ships.
Frigs seem quite underused, especially the imicus (which can launch 3 light drones) and I would like to see them able to carry spare drones since nothing else got a buff from bandwidth
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Dirk Magnum
Spearhead Endeavors
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Posted - 2008.07.24 14:21:00 -
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I think that bandwidth allowed drone ships to finally work as intended (not that I had any personal complaints about how they worked before.) Just like only a few ships were nerfed by the bandwidth feature, only a few were buffed (Vexor, etc.) If the intent by CCP was to reduce drone spam to a mild degree then they succeeded. I mean I guess giving frigates an extra 5 m3 of drone space but no added bandwidth couldn't hurt.
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Passcal
Darksaber Technologies
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Posted - 2008.07.24 14:38:00 -
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I thought the bandwidth stuff was to prevent small ships from using larger drones. Such as frigs using med drones and cruisers/battlecruisers using large.
I'm not sure if it's true or not but I always saw large drones BS sized weaopns, med as cruiser/battlecruiser and small as frig weapons.
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vostok
Minmatar
Suns Of Korhal
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Posted - 2008.07.24 14:56:00 -
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Edited by: vostok on 24/07/2008 14:56:08
 Originally by: Passcal
I thought the bandwidth stuff was to prevent small ships from using larger drones. Such as frigs using med drones and cruisers/battlecruisers using large.
I'm not sure if it's true or not but I always saw large drones BS sized weaopns, med as cruiser/battlecruiser and small as frig weapons.
Personally, I see large drones as a BS side weapon, so in my mind its fine for smaller ships to use 5 of them so long as they have little to no other offencive abilities.
I believe the point is that frigates used to have 5 drone bay and thus could use 1 light drone, they now have 5 drone bay and 5 bandwidth, thus can use 1 light drone, theres no reason a lot of those ships shouldnt be able to replace that drone if it were to be lost.
I would like to see frigs with like 10/15 drone bay and 5 bandwidth and the imicus with like 25/30 drone bay and 15 bandwidth.
TBH I'm pretty curious why lots of ships didnt get this little buff since ccp said that was what they were going to do, oh wait, no, no suprises there then :|
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diabolic clone
Amarr
Anomaly Collective
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Posted - 2008.07.25 02:37:00 -
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Originally by: Passcal
I thought the bandwidth stuff was to prevent small ships from using larger drones. Such as frigs using med drones and cruisers/battlecruisers using large.
I'm not sure if it's true or not but I always saw large drones BS sized weaopns, med as cruiser/battlecruiser and small as frig weapons.
It was because drone boats were not doing what drone boats do (launch waves of drones, they'd just fill the bay with biggest possible, myrm for example)
Frigates like ishkur were able to scoop heavy drones that were abandoned in space and relaunch a full flight of them.
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Katarlia Simov
Minmatar
Cowboys From Hell
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Posted - 2008.07.25 03:46:00 -
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As I recall, the plan was for Gallente drone boats to have as much bandwidth as they had drone bay, while Amarr ones had space for spare ones. The idea was basically that gallente ones are 'damage', the amarr ones are 'versatility'. So, the gallente can put out everything in one go but thats all they have, while amarr can drop more/dofferent kinds as they loose them but aren't as dangerous overall.
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Delana Locke
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Posted - 2008.07.25 04:17:00 -
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It was also designed to counter cases with smaller ships, like the Ishkur, deploying a heavy/sentry drone, then scooping another to it's drone bay and then deploying it to then have 50m3 of drones deployed even though the drone bay was only 25m3.
I believe this is what the bandwidth issue was intended to address: abusing the difference between carrying a drone vs. controlling it.
Prior to the bandwidth changes, it was possible for an Ishkur to field five heavy/sentry drones even though it could not carry them all.
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