EVE General Discussion

It's true that using a booster to prop up a single combat ship isn't technically "solo," but then again, if we remove off-grid boosting to "boost" solo pvp, should we also remove scouts, spies, and cyno alts? If so, how would we do this? I think the answers are no, and that it's impossible. For practical purposes, "solo" pvp implies one combat ship doing the fighting without direct assistance from others, either in the form of aggression or targeted support.

If there really is to be a booster change, then how about we go for something a little more intricate, such as ship scanners showing the stats of the modules people use? That way, it's possible to find out whether or not a person is being boosted, but at least you'd have to work for it.

this change alone just punishes smaller gangs. forcing ganglinks to be on field isn't necessarily bad (it would be cool to **** with the one system wonders and their POS sitting alt boosters) but you just create a bigger gap between the talentless blobbers who have bodies to spare and the actual decent small gangs who need all the dps they can get.

Links need to be brought back to a point where they give an edge but aren't a win button. The amount they improve a gang is ridiculous right now. Basically just listen to Bringing Solo Back podcast, the one with Garmon.

In other threads we keep hearing about Risk v Reward. Where's the risk in boosting from off the grid?

Someone got roflstomped in a 1v1 and can't accept it was 1v1 and he got beat...

Must have been that off grid booster

So what your saying is your mad there is a guy who can pilot two toons at the same time better than you can control 1?

Multiboxing is legal in WoW too, so much fun, you all sound like you wold enjoy it more there, hell you might learn a thing or two from the 40 char 1 man av teams that shows up regularly, **** off-grid boosting and get with pros.

Regardless of all the crying and frothing of the mouth people display when begging for fleet booster nerfs, they are more likely to start a second account and get their own fleet booster before they ever quit the game over it.

If fleet boosters were actually nerfed there would be many, many second/third/etc accounts suddenly not being worth another $15/.5bil isk a month.

So to someone with an interest in this game's success from a business standpoint, what do you think they would do? Leave in the mechanic that raises the status quo and promotes multiboxing but incites whine in the tiny percentage of players too broke to get their own alt account (or too "honorable" lol), or remove that mechanic from the game and certainly lose some subs immediately?

Even if it was nerfed it would just be some other new meta gaming tactic to gain an edge. Personally I find that a single player can do a hell of a lot more damage by bringing the second character into combat. Do the math, the best fleet bonuses give what a 35% boost to a couple attributes? Bring in a second ship and you're doing double damage to them, have twice the total ehp, points, webs, etc.. oh but that shows up on a killmail. If you're worried about looking bad on a killboard you need to get a life.

The skirmish interdiction link is the only one that gets to 50%. It's not a major difference unless you're talking about an overheated faction point or something.