Sammy Fischer
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2016.08.23 23:28:39 -
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In the day, you could control 10 drones at a time, and each drone did half the damage. It was reduced to 5 in order to improve server performance. With the back end and server improvements, is it time to bring that number back up? The drone bays were not made smaller when the number was reduced, effectively giving drone boats more cushion when their drones died, and gave a major buff to ships with small drone bays when DPS doubled. All you would need to do is cut the drone DPS and bandwidth in half and allow 10 drones again.
Going back to the specs of old would change a lot about how drones are deployed in both PVP and PVE. They would be much more important for PVE pilots to manage their drone health because they would not have spares anymore. PVP pilots would have longer before a flight is destroyed, but would also not have spares anymore. Ships with small drone bays would see a nerf. The Caracal for example would have its already small drone DPS halved, the Procurer would no longer have a spare flight of drones, etc. It would also double the cost of a drone boats load if they only carry what they fl.t
Would such a change require the adjustment of drone bay sizes to compensate pilots to what has been the meta for a long time, or would they adapt to the new/old drone bay capacities? What else would this change break? |
Sammy Fischer
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
11
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Posted - 2016.08.24 03:07:53 -
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Daichi Yamato wrote:Sammy Fischer wrote:It was reduced to 5 in order to improve server performance. With the back end and server improvements, is it time to bring that number back up? No. And then you elude to why yourself here Sammy Fischer wrote: Would such a change require the adjustment of drone bay sizes to compensate pilots to what has been the meta for a long time, or would they adapt to the new/old drone bay capacities? What else would this change break?
Why do all that work rebalancing every ship in the game (for the second time this half decade) when we can just not...is there a reason you really want ten drones on every ship? 'cause it would be cool' Ok...NEXT! Except they didn't really rebalance anything last time because they left the drone bays the same, effectively doubling them for drone boats. I'm not proposing doubling drone bay capacities to compensate. |