Warfare & Tactics

People argue that SP is the largest roadblock to successfully PvP. I disagree. Money is.

The majority of fights (particularly in FW space) are dictated by those with a faction point. Scramming out to 14km and pointing out to 36km is ludicrous. They completely change the dynamics of a fight, granting those with that ability a massive advantage over those without.

Scramming, for obvious reasons will get your kiting ship caught much more easily than 10.8km, making it considerably easier to effectively use a brawling ship. Long points to 36 damn KM make them able to kite outside reasonable firing ranges while removing your ability to escape. You slingshot them to 29km, spamming warp, and nothing. Then you overheat your MWD to slingshot them to 36KM, and still nothing. These are the most PvP breaking mods, well aside from ECM, but that's another debate.

I completely agree. What was CCP thinking having different mods with different prices? There should be no more than one shiptype in eve, only one weapon system, a single tank type and once engaged the game should transport you and the single target you are fighting into a restricted session where both toon SP are balanced so you can fight it out on completely equal terms!

I have been saying this all along, AT LAST there is someone who agrees with me!!

farm more isk and use faction points, problem solved

Risk/Reward.

Yes, it's annoying. Not unfair though.

Oh how I feel like a peasant using my un-boosted meta 4 long points. Such is life!

Posting in a stealth nerf everything thread.

Doubt it.
Will cost them too much in lost accounts.

the bigest problem, with those ranges you describing is on the use of off grid boosters that cant be even shoot at, great risk/reward right there, dont worry tho CCP is on the right path and will end this offgrid booster cant be shoot at bullshit , eventually

CCP devs have stated they are unhappy with Off Grid Boosting, and are actively working to remove them. Granted, they said that in a year old dev blog, and still haven't removed them. Around that same time, they announced splitting up the BC skill into racial variants. They waited until they were "rebalancing" BC's to make that change, so I'd suspect that OGB will probably be addressed when they rebalance CS's and/or t3s.

FYI: They stated they were going to reduce all T3 links from 5% back down to 2% per level. They were planning to enable the t3's and CS's to give bonuses to multiple racial mindlink types, and

CCP cares about more than just $$$!

Do you see gold plated ammo? Do you see SP for Plex? While the game is far from perfectly balanced (actually its purposely not perfectly balanced), they acknowledge when things are too far out of balance, and actively take steps to bring them into balance. Just look at their history: Nerfs to Cyno-Portaled AOE DD's, Nerfs to AOE DD's, Nerfs to XL weapon Tracking, Nerfs to Incursions, Nerf to FW LP payouts, Nerf to speed, Nerf to Moongoo, Nerf to Supercarrier drone bays, nerfs to .... I could give many examples of areas of game play that were broken, and CCP stepped in, correctly so, and modified the game mechanics to bring them back into balance. They've coped with people unsubbing because their Titan changed, or because their Tengu isn't as effective, or because their supercarrier can no longer bbqwtfpwn subcap fleets. If you think the loss of you, your corp mates, and a thousand other booster alts are going to stop CCP from balancing overpowered off grid boosters, your in for a surprise!!!




Horseshit!!! You hated boosts at first because you recoginized they were overpowered. You know this now, even as you write 5000 character posts trying to justify them.



People play the game to win. At the moment, in booster plagued FW space, the only way to truly compete is with boosters. That doesn't mean boosters are good for the game; that doesn't mean boosters are just fine. In fact, it points to the opposite. If boosters were not so goddamn overpowered, your corp mates wouldn't really care if you left your booster alt logged off. People like it when you bring boosts because they know boosts give an unparalleled advantage in PvP. If, right before a gun battle, you gave any soldier the choice of wearing a chain-mail Hauberk, or a Kevlar Vest, of course their going to go with the more effective armor. Yes, this is a cutthroat game where people take every edge they can afford, be it faction ammo, drugs, faction modules, off grid boosters, blingy implants, friends with benefits, and especially fleet boosts.

If you do the math, fleet boosts are simply too powerful. There is NO JUSTIFICATION for the level of benefits they give, especially in conjuction with the laughable risks to a properly setup boosting character. I'm not some small time CEO in a 30 person alliance, I'm the small time CEO in a slightly bigger, somewhat better known alliance. I have a ton of experience in solo and small gang PvP, a lot of experience in nullsec, and a fair amount of experience in FW. I know what I'm talking about, and there are two major problems with off grid boosters:

A.) The boosts: Fleet boosts are ridiculously overpowered:

Have a full set of crystals in your head (>>1b isk), and you rep 54% better than the uninplanted character.

Take a Strong Blue Pill, and you rep 40% better than the non-drug using character (and risk massive side effects).

Have a Mindlinked Tengu Fleet booster, and EVERYONE in your fleet reps 124% more than the non-boosted character.

Frankly, the boosts that single ship provides up to 249 others is way over the top. This is a game where you pay 100+m isk for a 5% bonus to a single attribute on a single ship, and your "investment" is at risk of being destroyed; the benefits provided by fleet boosters apply to every ship in fleet, alter many ship attributes, all provided nearly risk free from within the safety of a POS Force Field!

B.) Lack of a counter:

The only way to prevent your opponent from reaping the OP benefits of boosters, is to engage the booster (destroy them or force them to warp).

If the booster is on grid, there is a target for you to attack (example: CFC Primarying Command ships in the big 6VDT-H fight).

[*] If the booster is off grid, they can be difficult to attack (in a safe spot) to very difficult (inside a gated plex) to impractical (inside a POS).