Player Features and Ideas Discussion

if i put a mining link's on my vulture, will I need to be or outside the force field? maybe add this to the original post as there are way to many posts to read them all for the answer.

Just don't forget the ancient tradition of remote hull tanking capsules. Since ORE ships place the emphasis on structure tanking, perhaps it is time to introduce proper logistics/leadership/link skills, modules and rigs to support hull tanking? Current hull repairers are crazily inefficient, even a 100% boost to repair amount would render them only mostly useless :)

I look forward to your ideas for rebalancing Rorquals to allow them to provide boosts outside POS shields. My preferred option would be moving the bonus from the core to the hull, leaving the opportunity to install different cores for ore compression, refining, or remote hull tanking (ie: triage rorqual).

Thank you so much for this nerf. It was incredibly unnecessary and we people in lowsec will love you forever.

Here's the thing, though; Boosts allow us to fight larger gangs or blobs coming along. It evens the field. Especially in lowsec, where you can't deny people access to stations and other system-protecting mechanics that null has.
Who wan'ts to actively play the fleet booster? with the possible exception of nullsec, that's always the role of an alt. Let's be honest here. Nullblobs can spare 1-3 in 255 to sit in a command ship. Downsizing the active players in a gang of 4 by one to sit in an actively played booster ship makes you think if you want to take the engagement at all.

Also, T3 subsystem should get a bonus to be able to natively fit THREE (3) warfare modules (just as command ships do). If you want them probable and outside of a POS and you give them bonuses to different links (implicitly expecting more than one warfare link at the same time), then don't make them have to fit as many command processors and therefore a lowslot rack of co-processors. It's bad enough to have 10k ehp and being probable while roaming. now you have to be insta-poppable in your home system, too ?
Bad design is just bad design.

Lastly, the nerf, sorry "balancing", is only hitting the links where people without links (i wonder why) complained about. Why did painter links not get hit? Because they are not overpowered in regards to painters or because little people use painters, hence noone complained yet?

Solo PvP is a non-existent dream. Even when i go out alone, people don't engage me. I have to bloody shoot people hugging a station, and they *might* engage back, and only if they can reship in station and are having a 5v1 ratio in man-power. Hence, i bring links and make this party fun.
I won't anymore, it seems.

Since I'm on the topic:

POS sitting boosters usually applied to "home" systems.
We don't have SOV in lowsec. And in nullsec it didn't matter and people didn't complain because they come in blobs anyways.

So how to defend ourselves in lowsec, in systems we settled down? Lowsec corps/alliances already have less people than nullsec blobs and don't hold sov over systems.
It's not like people took POS towers on a roam and anchored them for their T3 booster. so what was the problem?

Also T3s don't need another sensor strength / signature nerf. My maxed prober with virtues probes a boosting T3 in about 2-3 cycles MAX. L2Probe and skill your toon. you shouldn't be able to probe them with half-asssed probers.

Tears? BUENO!

Here's the solution to the people whining about having to be outside the POS: pay attention to your alt. Put up 4 x ECM batteries, a scram, and 4 x small arties. It's only got to be a small POS to park a Claymore outside of it, or a boosting Loki. I mean, sheesh, what's that going to cost you? 120M outlay instead of, as it is now, 65M. Plus, of course, paying attention whereas now you just alt-tab and "fight outnumbered to even the odds" which has always, till now, been "gain superpowers for one character with no consequences to the other".

if you don't like leaving your alt cooling it's heels 500m outside the forcefield (I mean, seriously...it's just as invulnerable...no one can blap a Claymore before it gets inside) then do it on station, like you always can do. This whining is the least valid whining in EVE.

I also don't think the sensor res buff is good. It just means you can use one less alt to achieve instalock. The point made about upping BS scan res is a very, very valid one. Do that instead. I have never heard anyone complaining "that dude locked me from so far outside my lock range and point range that I died because I fully FORGOT TO WARP OFF" - it's always "I jumped gate and I was pointed and webbed before I even decloaaked".

in reality, the interdiction sub changes were the best bit. You can still achieve greatness with pimp and boosts - you just don't obsolete Arazus with, eg, a loki boosted faction point.

The info warfare link changes will require some going through in detail, as they aren't neccessarily currently the most abused, so I don't know whether there is a need to nerf them. Nor do i really see what kind of abuse one could get up to with 35% buffs to TP's versus 20% buffs. I guess it might be an issue in dread blapping but IMHO, Legion and Loki links are more used in those situations.

It does pay off, doesn't it? all that time spent to train and max 4 different T3s and 4 different command ships, while two of each could have been enough.
hooray for wasted SP that i'll (a) never recover and (b) will now be worth ditch when selling a character in the future.

Most of the changes are OK - so far.

What I think is odd is that CCP Fozzie is pandering to the people who pay for one account instead of the people who pay for multiple accounts.

Fozzie will cause more accounts unsubbung than OGB's ever have.

(I actually dont believe anyone unsubs because someone else has boosters - but Ill pretend it happens just for the welfare recipient whingers who can't afford extra accounts and want to 1v1 in an mmo)

The more I think about it, they should just remove links altogether.
Then we can get our now wasted SP back and stick those SP into combat skills.
That way we'll all be "equal" and no more whining about "i can't 1v1".

BTW, there is no "1v1". eve is not about "total balance" or "fair fights". There is no "arena" or matchmaking system that will put you against an "equal" opponent. its all about being smarter and crushing the other guy. Boosters was a part of it.
If you want "Fair" and "equal" 1v1, go duel somebody and make sure you shipscan him first and ask for a screenshot of his implants, or you might whine yet some more. This whole "unfair" thing is tiresome. sandbox and fair doesn't go so well. Guess what make EvE so great and different from other MMOs (hint: it wasn't the "fair" part).

Also, paying multiple accounts is easy as hell if you make some isk. no need for real money.
I like people saying they "refuse to get a second account to have an ogb" .. see, that your choice. now stop crying about those who do the effort / sacrifice. I'm sure you whine about people IRL driving a better car as well, ignoring they maybe work twice as hard as you do.

small gangs in an unending war against the blob, has taken a great loss today. the great weapon, t3 boost, was hit by a bus. the driver? a great ally to the blob, CCP Frozzie. however I will take ur challenge, Frozzie, and spit in ur face. I will continue my fight against the blob. closer to the edge I will fly. you may have killed the kiting style for many, but not for me. brawling blobs may get stronger, but they will die. I will kill them. I will adapt.

I will not let you kill solo and small gang warfare. I will keep it alive. you can not stop me from killing ur blob, I won't let you. I will win. so **** you and ur nerf.

I literally spat out some tea laughing at this phallus wash coming from a group of risk averse scared little docked up termigants like the United.