Warfare & Tactics

You know. Sometimes I hear from people that off grid boosting is a problem in Minmatar/Amarr factional warfare. but! I just went into a system with no less than 17 Loki, legion and Tengu off grid boosters. ROFL


[17:36:43] Major Killz > Gang links all up in local

[17:36:57] Major Killz > is like half of local OGB alts?

[17:36:58] Inora Aknaria > dont leave home without them

[17:37:35] Amun Khonsu > what kind of retards run gang links?


CRAZY!

CCP seems to disagree - they found hisec whining about farmers important enough to remove tech 3's from ded 3 and 4's (which halves the number of plexes you can access using tech 3's in lowsec too, let's just hope they didn't screw up the unrated plexes too), but changing a database number from 5 to 2 (aka. nerfing tech 3 as ogb) requires sooooo many valuable dev's manhours .

This.
OGB is CCP's stealth 'Gold Ammo'/'Pay To Win' option.

Pay for one account, and you may/may not get fair fights when you play.
Pay for two accounts and you can fight with an unfair advantage and not even have to show others on your killboard.

It's not going anywhere!

Was it in Kourm?
lol.

Ogb is completely gamebreaking sh....
I also gave up solo because of ogb monkeys everywhere.

+1 agreed eve is moulded on not being fair and harsh

I dont use booster alts myself when im out but know others do and dont mind it. Its a game and everyone has the same opportunity to get a boosting alt if they so wish. Yes its wrong that you may feel the need you have to but there are GF`s out there with others that arnt boosted you just have to look.

In small gang/large warfare ganglinks are sometimes vital otherwise most fights end up a blap fest for a few seconds, boosts prolong these fights for both sides and can level out an uneven fight.

As for boosts being ongrid ever called a damnation primary in a small scale bc fight? it sucks if they have logi and know what there doing you aint breaking it lol (*cough crosi*)

Wait! That's it? That is the level of difficulty you're having and your argument for using a off grid booster? I laughed hard and then laugh some more.

You had a 1 versus 1 while his or a random fleet watched for the most part

Here I am thinking about using off grid boosting for serious sh!t while terribubble pilots use them for every one versus one against every other teribubble pilot out there.

With that said.

THERE ARE engagements where a player could not come out of and retain thier ship without an off grid booster. I personally see engagements like that everyday. Most of those if not all of them are engagements best done close range instead of skirmishing. SO! Using active defense setups on ships like a Cyclone, Myrmidon, Gnosis, Rokh, Hyperion, Maelstrom etcetera. Engaging like 5 - 15 cruisers in damage or 3 - 5 battleships in damage or more. Oh! Of course thier's laming people in strategic cruisers all day (been there done that).

But from what I've observed and done myself and told from bros who use off grid booster all the time. 95% of thier engagements are infact 1 v 1. Most of the pilots who use them now dont even engage groups of pilots at once at all or atleast do so rarely.

The REALLY REALLY good pilots do ALOT but most of them will tell you they can engage most gorups of pilots without OGB for the most part except in rare occasions (**** that comes around once or 3 times a day if you're not looking for them). Not to mention most pilots who use offgrid boosters avoid other pilots who use off grid boosters

In anycase. There was no overall point for or against OGB. I just thought finding a system with 17 off grid boosters in it was CRAZY sh!t and yeah. The system was Kourmonen


- killz

I disagree, Improved gameplay = more subscribers

Removing OGB will make CCP money in the long run.. especially since 95% of people won't unsub their alts.. just re-purpose them for the next lamest thing.

I'm still pretty new, but it seems to me that Eve is all about risk=reward. If you want to plug a bunch of expensive implants in you will have an advantage over others, but you also have the risk of losing your pod and costing you a bunch of isk. If you want the advantage of a boost, you should have the risk of possibly losing the boosting ship.

Couldn't that same argument have been applied to Learning Skills before they got rid of them? Back when we didn't know if we were going to get refunded skill points.

"Ya it sucks, but we all trained for it, if it bothers you, you should train it up too, EVE is a harsh game, get used to it"?

And just because people spent money training alts for something, it should never be changed when an overly large portion of the community thinks it should?

Seems like an odd stance.

If it was changed to ongrid boosting, wouldn't all the exact same skills apply? Except the person whose paying for that alt might now have to glance at the screen more than once or twice.