EVE General Discussion

I will buy any OGB for 800 mil when the patch goes live.
There now you all have something to do.

Also when I am booster in a fleet, why do my stats never change in the fitting window?

The tears of scrubs who think elite pvp consists of running around in a Cynabel with offgrid boosts is hilarious.

Please keep going so I can get a third bucketful.

Just like those t3 pilot crying about not beable to eject anymore. OGBing is a chicken man boost just a t3 pilot ejecting i combat to save is sp.

Removing OGB will make it very hard for those of us that don't like to be in blobs (by blobs im talking 10+). If me and 4 corpies decide to go roam we don't exactly have the numbers for us to lose a dps or a recon to be in a command (they do awful dps when running links) or yet another to logy to keep said command alive when the locals form up the 30 man gang to come fight us.

We are taking the risk by fighting outnumbered, often 4:1, we deserve a little help that comes from an OGB alt. Its what makes 90% of small gang pvp possible in this game, its is simply not possible for us to keep our gang mate alive in a command ship when a tier 3 bc gang lands, or any 20+ man gang for that matter.

The blob that comes to fight us can spare pilots to come in a command and bring a logy or 2 to keep it alive, we cant.
This will be yet another change that favours the blob over those that don't. Its yet another example of a csm and development team that is based in larger scale pvp.

The simple solution that would keep both sides happy is this:

Make tech 3's able to OGB but make them only able to boost for a single squad, that's 9 people max other then the char in the T3. Keep the reduction in boost amount (3% I believe)

Make Commands be able to boost a fleet, this makes people that fly with 10+ have to bring logy that is needed to keep a command alive.

This is the only way I can see to keep small gang and solo pvp alive.

I too am terrible at choosing gangs to engage nearer my size.

I mean it's not like one of your members could bring a Claymore or anything that can support ganglinks *and* be capable on not popping when looked at. I mean I *should* be allowed to herpaderp in one system with my offgrid booster sitting there in a pos while I trounce terrible Drake pilots in my crystal implant set, running full ganglinks and being just oh so cool.

And I say this coming from a viewpoint of someone who reguarly has an offgrid booster in fleet. This change is a positive step forward, making fleets a bit more of a tactical battle than "derp imma primary teh CAEN".

Oh CCP why do you make it harder for the little guy to fight big bad blobs and make me think about my fleet comps rather than kiting away, why. Is my kiting hero Tengu that much of an evil in the EvE universe?

given that command ships have been the lead anchor ship in most drake fleets in the cfc for years now I would think they can take the punishment inflicted by small gang fights.

It is not possible to activate gang links in warp already. I am for being a substantial distance out of a pos shield to activate them. Increasing signature radius would penalize those who are on the battlefield. Sensor strength reduction to make is easier to prob is nice, but everyone at a safe spot with boosters spams the directional scanner so much it would make worm hole dwellers say, "God damn!" Also those on the battlefield would become perma jammed the whole fight by a couple light ECM drones.

I would be more for the sensor strength change if ECM had a completed overhaul or all EW drones were removed until the EW overhaul.

If skill was actually the driving factor behind your gangs you wouldn't have to ask how to keep a Claymore alive in combat.

It's been pointed out before, but lets try it again... T3's and Command ships are both going to be overhauled when these changes go through. Until we know the details of those changes, debating the survivability of either T3's or Command ships in an on grid situation is more than a little pointless.

In general we know they are leaning towards:
1: All Command ships being able to use 2 links.
2: All Command ships will have their combat capabilities boosted, significantly in many cases.
3: All Command ships will provide more of a bonus when boosting than a T3 will be capable of.
4: T3's will be capable of running 3 gang links, but with lesser bonuses.
5: T3 subsystems in general are going to be rebalanced as well with on grid boosting in mind, possibly their cost as well.

So in essence everything you think about how these ships should be used is about to be thrown out the window.

Really gentlemen, what's the point.

Caldari here.

Another 100 MN Tengu on the way.
You know that will get nerfed in the next year, right?
It's been the same ritual for 9 years.

Nerf the nerf that nerfed the nerf because someone cried on the forum that something was OP.

I'd like to see off grid gone but I'd like to see battles be more than 250 vs 1 X 2.

I say keep off grid boosting but reduce the boost bonus of T3's down to 0.5 % per level and only allow them to fit one link. Then give command ships a 10% per level boost to links and reduce their tank to 1/4 of what it currently is and add a beacon to them that when they turn on their links they are directly warpable to.