Originally by: Meichi Li

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Originally by: Car Wars

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Myrmidon was promised to be a droneboat. It has never followed the true gallente design for droneboat, not now, nor before it was nerfed. Myrmidon had enough grid to fit all med autocannons + uber tank + tackle web+ ew + booster and 125m3 drones. This was flawed.


Vexor, Ishtar, dominix design:

1. damage bonus to turrets and a decent amount of turrets.
2. drone damage and hp bonus.

This in practice means, you cant fit gank + dual rep tank. You do not have enough grid to fit full size guns + a tank. Either you tank or you gank. Pretty simple.

Myrmidon true droneboat design:

To be a true drone boat Myrmidon needs 100-125mbit and 250m3 drone bay. Drone dps is never more then 300-500dps. I can hardly imagine this to be overpowered if it is limited to not fitting med guns + dual rep tank.

As addition you could change the eos to the new design of the myrmidon, as it also is out of line. It is not a turret boat and not a droneboat.

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There's a problem with this and passive shield tanking. Let's call it "the Drake problem". Except that in this case it would be multiplied to an extreme degree, because a Myrmidon that could use 5x bonused Ogre II and have 5x bonused Garde II in the drone bay for long range targets would, to be honest, completely outclass a 2x LAR II Dominix when it comes to tanking and running level 4 missions. DPS would not be that much worse, especially given how many people just run missions AFK in a tanked Dominix, and agility would be a whole heck of a lot better.

I'm not going to sit here and claim that the game should be balanced around missions, because it shouldn't, but the ridiculous power of a ship such as you describe here would completely outclass every other BC in the game, not to mention a few battleships. And while I know that the Hurricane is better than the Tempest, EVE really ought not to be balanced that way in general.

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