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People will complain about anything. Your problem seems to be that being given free skill points might make you lose skill points. Well if you're so picky about maintaining your character at a specific skillset, then update your clone.

I still think characters should be able to refund their skillpoints for something tangible in-game like ISK, I mean if you really want to get rid of em. I'm keeping mine, thanks. Though I'm also slightly concerned about how each skillpoint costs more on the medclone than the last. But it's a minor issue unless you spend too much time skilling up and not enough time playing the game. Most of us can afford our med clones because we either learn to make a lot of money or just not die so often.

The fleet booster has to be on grid? boooh! On one side the overall boosting goes down the drain thanks to your nerf-nerf! On the other side I would have to invest time and money on skills and a ship that is going to be primary target from the beginning of the battle. Yeah, maybe if you allow boosting while cloaked!

Focus on expanding the game, not nerfing! Ships and skills are fine as they are. A little imbalance is good, so people who learn the game can have an advantage and have more fun. It makes no difference to ignorant or noob players.

Can you tell me what is the strategy behind all this nerfing and changes? I suspect it's greed.

Don't tell me that I should quit EVE cause my answer fill be FO.

Make gang links work in a similar fasion to cyno's / siege modules.

Navigations systems can lock onto the extreme subspace outputs of these modules like cyno beacons and warp to them.
Warp drives divert power to Gang links while active in order to supply adequate power.

90s cycle time.

Can not be activated within 500km of active force fields.
Can not warp ship while module is active.


Off grid boosting is now possible but also certain death if not protected.


no need for jiggy ongrid only mecahnics.

I can see how the boost would seem overpowered in large numbers. But for those of us that choose not to be part of big Corporations and like to play the game the way we want to and not the way others want us to. I would like to put this out for brain storming concept.

Boost would stay the same as long as the numbers of the group stay at 5and under then 6 to 10 it would lose a percentage and so on. Giving small gangs or corporations an edge to compete with larger gangs and Corporations, Off-grid boosting is no longer a problem and miners and solo players can keep playing the game.

So instead of stabbing and twisting the knife of death in the miners and solo players, try just trimming the fat.

So any update where the internal thought process is on the following issues:

1. Command Ship rebalance (as pure combat boats, as T2 BCs - youve hinted faction BCs for the summer Xpack, so i hope to god that you will first balance the existing 8 T2 BCs before adding another 4 Faction BCs and make the distinction between the existing Combat BCs, Command Ships, Faction BCs and Rebalanced BSs even harder)

Im guessing next in line are the BSs, now that youve announced faction cruisers rebalance, just wish to know if the T2 BCs will be rebalanced for the summer x-pack or not

2. Supreme effect of mindlinks. Youve said you dont like 5% (25%) on T3s, but this 50% is where the retardedness comes in. Sample math of skirmish links - with all 5s, mindlinks on a Loki, its 52% v/s 42% on an unbonused (but All5s, mindlink) T3, say Tengu.

So on a 24km point, with a 25% bonused ship youre adding 12+km (~36km point) while via an unbonused ship its still a 34km point.

The problem isnt the T3 5% bonus (and hence the 'nerf' from 25% to 10% on T3s is near moot), its the 50% Mindlink.

3. Plain inferiority of Information Links - may be a connected problem of how unbonused EWAR is still very effective, addressing both can lead to attractive Information Links.

E.g. Make unbonused TDs half as good, double the bonus on specialist hulls. Makes the specialist hulls just as effective as they are today (or slightly better). Makes unbonused EWAR mod usage much more subtle. AND makes the effect of Information links that much more pronounced, since the base EWAR on unbonused ships will benefit far more from the links.

4. OGB - smart money says, youre no closer to an answer than you were in Nov '12. Please update?

Bump

Update please.

I'm interested in an update to this as well since fanfest has happened. A corpmate had an idea for the command ship boosts that I thought was interesting, he's a orca, command ship, and titan pilot, so he has some experience in this area.

The problem here is really a difference in how we're using the boosts, so some feedback on what CCP wants to do with the different uses of the boost would be helpful. Example: Do they have problems with a Rorqual boosting miners from a POS in nullsec or a wh? Does CCP not like a mission or incursion fleet having an offgrid booster? Or is the only problem having offgrid un-touchable boosts in PVP? If it's only the offgrid boosts in PVP, then perhaps you could tie in the offgrid boost with the safety selection. If you have your safeties on you can get offgrid boosts, but if you turn them off the booster has to be on-grid.

I want to be clear. I do believe that pvp boosts should be on-grid. However in PVE and mining I don't think that will work as intended. I also don't think it's unbalanced to have that setup work in PVE and mining, because there's a lot of options to get those boosts (t1 battlecruisers, t3's, and command ships) all with varying costs and effectiveness.

As a side note, it looks to me that most of the changes to ship balancing are being done with a pvp viewpoint. I think some caution should be exercised so that you don't remove a segment of the gameplay choices from the game. I'm happy with most of the changes made so far, I like that there are more choices for ship choices for fleet building, and I look forward to what you guys will do in the future.

Thanks for your time,

Jason Dunham

thought on the Boost from POS detail, perhaps see to giving the links a Range of 400km? i personally rather be Boosting fleets within a fleets range rather then being hidden away. A Tech3 should be able to fight on par with normal/Tech2 fairly well fitted with 3guns. if its in a fleet anyway the justification lands on the FC's priority ability. To be honest FC's should be the ones in the T2:CS or T3:SC in the first place as its very fitting of such roles in the first place.