Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Steve, any news or new information?

Heck, do you think this thread has been useful at all so far?

Any plans to do more threads like this for future features head of any CCP announcement?

"Makes sense" isn't really something that comes into play here. This is Science Fiction so it's always possible to come up with some way something *might* be doable, even if it's just the external view point allowing for optimization of existing systems.

Nothing new to share yet.

They haven't (as far as we've been told. Or not, in this case) started working on it.

But it's often the case they'll kick it around internally, before bringing a close to finished concept to us. (That's not to say things don't change. They do. But it helps for them to have a concept, before discussions really start)

So far my experience with links is - broken AF. Not only the bonuses but how they are applied, some1 sitting 100 au away at station or at safespot in an almost unscannable, claoky, nullified t3 providing constant boosts to everyone? Wat.
So after thinking long and hard i came up with this:

1. Links should be on grid, all time, or at least most of it- this would open a profession currently occupied by alts

2. The ships should be tanky while having links fitted and running, low sig, good resist profile, base speed, minimal to none dps. Command destroyers need a buff in that regard, atm thay can fit 1 module, if that. Useful only for the mjd. Command ships- more buffor, able to fit more links without gimping the fit etc.

3. Duration seems like good idea to differentiate between hulls, smaller ship would have to stay with the group to provide buff constantly (but also be more mobile and avoid getting caught while on grid with the gang)
Command ship could "link up" and warp off to a safe oldschool style, but it would warp slow giving enemy chance to catch it and after a while it would need to reunite with fleet somehow, giving opposite team another chance to point it. Or stay on field with the kitey cancer roam and be the slowest, potentialy catch-able high value target for enemy.
gang link t3's should behave like something in between- weaker bonus to link strength and lower tank than command ship, but more agile.

I've been reading it, yes. The points will be raised (except for the 'don't change anything' one. because they will be changed.)

removal of ogb boosts would result in less pvp, since links allow to bait someone into fighting a seemingly inferior ship.
Once ogb boosts are gone, this kind of fights is gone.

Yippppeeeeee

(good riddance)

A boosting character takes anywhere from six months to a year to train just to be able to fly the ship and boost to a good degree, and it requires a second account (something the average player probably can't afford with just PLEX).

A well fitted boosting ship, and the implants to go with it, costs at least half a billion ISK and can run much higher.

All of that hardly makes a Command Boosting alt "something for poor people" here...

Besides all of this though, just the fact that you consider Boosts to be so powerful says that they should be on-grid and under direct risk of getting shot rather than off-grid, hidden, and quite safe (you know, in comparison).

This may turn into more of a server performance issue than a game balance one. While I agree in theory I feel that some kind of short-duration effect (call it 10-30 seconds) may be more practical from a server performance standpoint while keeping the overall effect on combat the same.



Marauders were never supposed to be reworked into PvP oriented roles. This was disucssed during the Bastion rework and roundly shot down by CCP. Go read the thread if you want to know more.

Also I'm failing to see a compelling argument for a Battleship sized boosting ship. We have Destroyers, Battlecruisers, and Capitals, why do we need a Battleship when a Command Ship can out-tank a Battleship in most cases?

And yet very first update of them was giving em t2 resists and bonuses to webs and only minor tank buffs in bastion and talks about re positioning with MJD as well as RR capabilities to boot on battlefield if that's not epitome of PVP stats i don't know what is

Until flood of carebares tears that is at which point all that talk of pvp was replaced with how to kill arch gistum battleships or better yet tank it.




Active tank marauder have significantly better tank than both minmatar and gallente command ships those would be active tankers and suitable in comparison

Other than that i mention it as an opinion as to size of boosting bubble/how many ppl get boosts and or strength of certain boosts over the others.