The impression I have from talking to people is that DM's are fairly somewhat balanced these days. I'm not looking to nerf them overall.

I actually think that the suggestion in the other thread about increasing torpedo damage somewhat to compensate is a much better idea than simply reverting to the previously buggy code. Whats the point of more damage if they can't hit shit a range and that buggy code also worked well so what it iys a bug it wasn't kroken interms of how people played the game I mean yes in all techincality it is broken but it was working so well for more than the year I have used my BFD's so if it ain't broken why "fix it"?

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Drones cost credits, and credits cost time. I think that is worth siting there with drones 'doing' nothing.

I am That close to geting my BFD's its not funny. and now they're 'nerfed' ..

Nice.

And what about us players with 300+ Ping levels? (Australia for example)
We can not use sniper classes and such to their maximum potential. by the time you shoot a guy they are already 100 dist. the other way you fired.

Just a suggestion;
It would be nice to have the ability to select and control drones fire directions with a 'point and click' system, controlling what direction drones fire.

I'll get right on that. Should be ready for testing around September 10 or so.

The change to BFDs was fine, before the change, with a Targeting controller, my Stygian Fists would act like they were MagCannon Turrets, tracking-wise.

BFDs are still pretty useful, and if you have issues hitting things, you should maybe try to fly out a bit more away from your drones, and take advantage of your tractors.

I suppose it adds more responsibility to Engineers other than siting there and watching the magic.

Still. this is going to be a big change. I doubt many people will adapt easily. I sure wont =s

Already looking into other classes this is a fucking slap in the face to what ever drones had left.

Edit* This is the beauty of annilation

I don't get where people are saying Drones just "sit there" and do nothing. We do plenty of things in pve and pvp. For Pve we have to fly far out in a dg before we even think about deploying our drones. Then as most ai have some type of tractor we can't just "sit there" Secondly where constantly deploying and redeploying drones. Plus the whole concept of a droner is to fight within the proximinity of his drones. Thats like saying zerk is op because all they gotta do is just sit there and press space bar....Oh wait....DM balances out with the huge risk of losing billions worth of "all" of your drones due to a simple mistake that would cost any other player 100 mil so please kindly stfu.

Secondly and more on topic Torpedoes I think should be tweaked abit I'm not saying necessarily a beef or nerf but I dunno the new formula just doesn't sit right with me. Some of the ideas other players suggested sound pretty good and maybe we should mash some of them together.

Idk TW think they should be changed back to the old way thats gotta say something

As far as I am concerned there was not really wrong with Torps/Thoraxe. The way they were was the way they had been since being implemented and it was fine.

Now we have an issue where aug set-ups, gear and style of play has become outdated or simply much less useful then it was before on a change that was hardly nessecary. I understand the urge to correct what you see as a falty coding but that this point it is pretty much the standard in game. There is not much to be gained from changing a major weapon mechanic without a real solid reason related to in game inbalance.

My two cents.