Drones

Trying to figure out drones for my new Myrmidon, Slay's Nuts, has cost me half a day of work – I did have a headache so maybe that also accounts for the lost time. Anyhow, it appears that CCP has changed the way drones worked last year sometime by introducing bandwidth. Before this a Myrmidon could control 5xheavy drones. Now it can’t. There is a lot of talk on various forums about whether the ship is worthwhile now. Unfortunately the type of person that posts on forums has a huge amount of skill points and cash that allow them to post loadouts with only Tech2 gear in them.

For ordinary mortals the upshot is this. Myrmidons can now launch 2xheavy, 2xmedium and 1xscout drones. A typical flight of drones would be 2xOgre, 2xHammerhead and 1xHobgoblin, also known as a gank set. This set up takes up the whole of your bandwidth but only 85m3 of your drone bay (leaving 40m3), allowing you to carry spares or other types of drones. After being ganked the other day I am tempted to carry ECM medium drones in the hope that these will kill the lock the other ship has on me allowing me to warp away.

Once I get the Gallente Drone Specialisation I can refit to carry 5xHammerhead II (75m3) and 3x ECM medium drones and 1x scout drone. I am told that 5 medium techII drones are a nasty bit of work.

My goal in drones is to be able to fly tech 2 medium drones.
Drone V - done
Scout drone operation V – at IV – another 6ish days training to get V
Gallente Drone Specialisation II – need to buy and train