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In what way should a command ship be less viable than a t3 which is designed to be flexible. The cruisers should be good at a lot of things, but excel at nothing, especially when comparing to ships that specialize.

I think the offgrid/possed command boosts are in need of fixing as well, it shouldn't be a valid tactic to sit in a pos and help a fleet. The idea is to command, i.e. be a part of the fleet. Not sit in a hidey hole while helping out your side like some middle eastern dictator.

fyi Generals sit in Command Centers gathering Intel and moving units on a map, while Colonels and lower fight the fight.

I just had an idea about the Triage II module. Remove the +20% lockrange and give it -20% cap recharge time while active (built in Cap Recharger II).

That would be a useful bonus with a measurable benefit worth 30 days of skilltime, yet not make triage fittings carefree wonderland.

I think your fix here is off grid boosting . . . if the only way to get a boost was to bring the ship on grid, the T3s literally would be limited to one mod w/o gimping their fit. This would fit the different but not better than T2 profile.

Not really, you nerf alliances/corps holding low sec systems with 2 CSs/T3s full of ganglinks in a POS, or fake solo pvpers who have alts to help them.

Small gangs (5-15), when they roam, can bring their booster with them in a fleet CS or few links in field CS/T3s on the field. Losing a ship or having to bring an alt and park him somewhere in the system off grid is not something small gangs do when they fight in systems with busy locals, lots of probers, big pirate corps...

I agree with darius.

I am in complete agreement, there should be no off-grid boosting for combat links.

First of all, greater variation of ships on the field makes combat more interesting.

Second, the command-ship should be a valid target the enemy fleet can kill to get rid of it's boosts, these ships have a massive tank for damn reason(absolution, Eos-lol.). They cannot be killed while sitting at a POS.

Thirdly i don't see why we should be protectiong the abovementioned 'solo' pilots, this should be a valid tactics: the solo can now be a duo if it is actually two players, you are just putting more assets at use and at risk.
As for combat Alts, they can be used in other ways, even in pvp (domi works well), I have two accounts, so and i have used both of them in pvp simultaneously, so i know what i am talking about.
I will not half balancing effort because some guy wants to bring 3 accounts to a pvp fight, this should not be a valid tactics. If a pilot is to provide a bonus he should be active, fighting and at risk. Being several AU away, AFK and safe is not how I understand combat.

Lastly, we already have massive proliferation of t3, every grandma and her dog flies one.
Their cost should be a balancing factor, even if not a very good one. By placing these expensive ships at risk we make both better kill-mails and we will have fewer t3 replacing t2 ships. As mentioned above, t3 with 3 links are paper-thin, so they are not strictly superior to CS if they are actually present of the battlefield.

honestly i think the triage 2 needs a remote rep range of like 20% and maybe even a capacitor need bonus of 20% you want the triage to be as useful as possible those bonuses would actually make it useful.

First : forums are dumb, they keep unlogging me and I have to rewrite my posts, I hate that. CCP, you could do better, every basic forum has a way to prevent that.



Will Adama, as much as I like your, and your alliance mates' videos, I just don't consider pvp with ganglinked alt solo PVP.



And for ganglinked T3, it seems like you never flew them (or a field CS) except in gimped full ganglinks fits.


For instance, a cloaky 100k EHP Loki with 1 disruptor and 3 webs, all of them reaching 50km is not useless for my fleets. Yet it's totally different from a Claymore.

Besides, you can eject and not lose a skill.

and you would really fly that in 1-2 vs 5+ situations? without any logistics on the field?

Roaming gangs/"solo" pilots are at a significant disadvantage if they dont have booster alts because all of those POS'd up gang boosters from local corp/alliances.

Funny part is that making boosters on-grid hurts the roamer but not the locals who have taken the time to cultivate battlegrounds... which is pretty much any local group that is even remotely organized.