Player Features and Ideas Discussion

It does pay off, doesn't it? all that time spent to train and max 4 different T3s and 4 different command ships, while two of each could have been enough.
hooray for wasted SP that i'll (a) never recover and (b) will now be worth ditch when selling a character in the future.

I'm not convinced that either the training time or the cost is really that relevant. We know from supercaps that attempts to balance things by making them expensive or difficult to get can only create a short-term scarcity. As it is, links are already basically ubiquitous and mandatory, so the benefit of any delay in adoption that might have come from the cost or training time is long gone.

In any case, you can eliminate the "cost" argument entirely by just shoving a link on a T1 BC. It's not quite as powerful as a T3 or CS, but the magnitude of the bonus still makes it mandatory.

And you realize that that +1 Falcon or Logi can be countered much more easily than your safed up boosting alt?
And you realize that that +1 Falcon or Logi provides a much, much less force boost than the fleet than that OGB?

1. It takes skill to not get caught dual boxing with links while being shot at. If you can't be bothered to dedicate time to train leadership skill and get better at pvp to counter the player who spent their time on fine tuning their skills, then you ought to be at disadvantage. It's a fair game, more effort, more reward.

2. It takes a lot of time and dedication to train for those warfare specializations. Those who made the effort and dedication should be rewarded with the advantages that it comes. It is unfair for pilots that have spent more than half year dedicated to nothing but training specialization skills to perform almost just as good as pilot who can spent less than a month to train the specialization to 4 with only 2% differences. It's a 37 day train time differences per skill, and there are 4 of them

3. Pilot who spent their time training command ship to level 5 for that extra 3% wafare bonus just had their effort wasted, because now every single command ship will perform the same as far as the warfare link goes whether they have command ship skill level 1 or 5. Another 37day training time differences.

The nerf to the warfare link strength is absolutely unfair to those who dedicated months of time in training for that extra 5% of chance to come out on top in a fight. If you are going to nerf the strength of the links, then it would only be fair to reinburse the skill points that was nerfed along with the skill. It is simply unfair to have to spend a month for additional 2% difference at links.

- For pilots that have all specialization skill to 5, they have just lost half year of game time in training for that worthless 2% differences.

- For pilots that have spent their time to command ship 5, they lost 37 day of game time in training because now everyone will do just as good as command ship level 5 pilots as far as warfare module goes.

Please consider the pilots that dedicated their time in warfare links in hope to have better chance against overcoming blobs in a small gang.

Awesome.