Warfare & Tactics

May as well just delete the command subsystem from tech 3's then since they can be 1 volleyed by most arty bs.

Speaking of arty bs, all this does really is buff alpha doctrines, which were already one of the strongest doctrines in the game.

how many people will be saving ten bucks a month on their tech 3 booster accounts on patch day? :D

i hope the new CS will be boosted well enough to warrant their high cost and still being mostly a gimped lemon with 2/3 links or few people are going to bother at all.

they also very specifically said that T3s with links will have better capabilities than CSs with link so don't go celebrating your damnation just yet since it's likely getting nerfed through the floor while getting more DPS.

frankly i think the entire boosting changes are poorly thought through at best and will make a lot of ships useless (namely all caldari and gallente boost ships.)

they'd do better to just go with a simple fix:

1. make CSs only able to fit 1 link at 5% bonus
2. make T3s be able to fit 3 links at a 3% bonus and be tankable while doing so to a viable degree
3. make boosting on field only

then just need to balance out the CSs up to the damnation level and youre done.
simple and efficient.

How did Fozzie put it? He wants to put a dagger in the eye of OP 5% and wiggle it a little. 5% is a non starter.

Frankly what bothers me a lot more is how the upcoming Destroyer/Battlecruiser racial split is going to affect cross-training. Doesn't affect me personally, as I have both of those maxed out, but I can just picture some poor schmuck spending half a year training the "wrong" race and being unable to join most corps because his ships and weapons totally don't work with the accepted fleet doctrine, and it'll take another few months to cross train to a new race. Training all races was a little daunting before, but after this change it'll be a humongous undertaking.

Only one of us is mad, as exemplified by your post.

Also, less posting more d-plexing south placid :)

Sorry bm, but he is clearly mad. Ive never smacktalked him or made any claim about being uber pro leet. Yet he always goes off topic to address my posts making such claims along with allegations of real life death threats that no one ever made outside his head.

So yeah, he is mad.

Thing that is boggling to me is the anaemic command bonuses, had expected them to go for 5% on CC and 2% on T3 ..

Question is if they are willing to really shake things up and give a bonus to the one link vanilla BCs can field and rewrite the code so that fleets get a priority list that automatically apply bonuses from the next ship in line as the one above pops.

At any rate, it is heartening that they are going to make them into beasts .. all of them. Can't wait to get in on an all Amarr CS fleet with links spread out on almost everyone to maximize individual combat performance .. micromanagement for the win!

bukuk bukuk says Chicken Miton.

As I said in the devblob threadnaught, if your T3 ship with 5 links and a mindlinked clone with no tanking skills is on grid with everyone else, yes, it will instapop. But, hey, maybe spend some time in Pyfa in a conclave of min-maxing while heptaboxing dreads in C5 space, Jack, and figure out a tankier T3 boosting fit without 5 links? Or, you know, take out a Command Ship.

In all cases, this is Q.Q by OGB alt owners complaining that they apparently wasted all the time training an overpecialised alt into a niche fitting in a niche ship for a niche role, loaded their clones with ridiculous implants, because they got to provide OTT boosts to their gang all with absolutely zero practical risk.

Now the party is over, its all tears and blubbing, and I love it. These are the same people who say "if you can't afford to lose it, don't fly it", "risk for ISK", "nothing is risk-free", and other such trite bovine effluvium, whilst maintaining their OGB alts in utter safety and fooling themselves they are elite PVPers because their boosts get them kills.

I am sure you will figure out how to fly your T3 boosting ships with one or two links and a tank, or how to GTFO the hull from danger. Or you might double down and retrain the alts into command ships (you lready have the leadership and cruiser 5 skills). Or, you know, HTFU.

Forcing boosters on grid just means you have to adjust your tactics and not run your booster as an AFK alt on a minimised client nestled next to dailypuppy.com or cuteoverload.com or my little pony online. If that means you can't take a Loki on field in place of a Claymore, so be it. You will be replaced by someone playing a boosting Loki as their main, and they will fit guns to it and create a fit which allows them to participate.

HTFU ladies.

Awh, a ship that doubles the battle capabilities of an unlimited number of ships will be an automatic primary?

That is SO unfair.......