Sentry drone skill change proposal (CSM)
Stats
- Title: T2 Sentry Drone Skill Inconsistency
- Raised by: Sokratesz (Character)
- Submission Date: 8 Dec 2009
- Issue ID: ?
Summary
This issue was brought to my attention by a concerned citizen during the campaign phase of the CSM elections and it seemed so obvious that I couldn’t do anything but promise that I would bring it up. Since the introduction of Tech-2 sentry drones there has been a major inconsistency in EVE’s drone line-up: they are the only Tech-2 drones that do not require the race-specific “drone specialization” skill. A few very easy solutions:
1) Reduce base sentry damage by 7.407%, and make sentry drones require the racial specialization skill at level 4. This will result in exactly equal damage at that skill level, and grant a 2% bonus to DPS for those dedicated enough to train the racial specialization skill to level 5.
2) Reduce base sentry damage by 9.09%, and make sentry drones require any level of drone specialization that CCP deems suitable and at level 5 they will do identical damage to their current variants.
3) Give the racial specialization skill some sort of other bonus for sentry drones – tracking, range, anything reasonably small but useful.