EVE General Discussion

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Currently: If a smaller gang wants to fight a bigger gang, they are already at a disadvantage because of numbers. When the bigger gang starts using ganglinks that boost their speed, web/scram range, and tank.. The small gang has no choice but to also do the same. This is done by T3 alts, off grid. Thus both sides are equal in terms of bonuses.


Proposed Idea: A smaller gang wants to fight a bigger gang, they jump in and realize the bigger gang has a massively tanked command ship giving off all types of bonuses. They no longer can use an off grid boost so they don't receive any bonuses to counter the bigger gang, The bigger gang effectively has more ships, goes faster, scrams further, and tanks harder than the smaller gang. How is that any better?

This is a big "**** you" to all small gang PvPers out there. Why buff the already too strong blobs?

How are you going to fix this CCP? Or are you just saying "if you want to win you have to blob"?


If this is honestly their best idea I'd rather have bonuses removed all together.

What? Why can't the small gang have an an on grid booster too?

My guess would be because the people with the larger numbers would take it out faster?

The flaw in the theory that things should be fair is that this is a game built on the principle that nothing about the game is fair. Everything is the blob. They balance ships based on the blob. They balance skills based on the blob, etc.

The current system works alot better than the proposed idea.

This makes it a bad change in this regard.

Maybe before blurfing on the forums about something you clearly know nothing about you should get yourself a link alt and try out some solo PVP.

Sounds like the smaller group should have picked their fights better.

This ideas are not good solutions at all.


"Split their gang so the booster is not on grid."

Your enemy could simply never split up in such a manner.



"Bring your own booster in on grid but super far away. Claymores and T3s aren't slow, y'know?"

So if a few guys want to fly a few frig sized ships, they need to have a friend in a claymore tail them who is always far away?

Being on the same playing field now requires a 400mil investment every fight, plus a ton of training. Bad idea.



"Use proper skirmish tactics with an appropriate ship. Armor cruisers and AFs are not appropriate."

Skirmish tactics don't work well if your enemy goes faster than you and scram/webs farther than you. It is already hard as it is without the blob having more bonuses.



"Somehow find out who their squad commanders are (if they have > 11 people) and blow those up."

I can't read minds.



"If they don't fly fight-appropriate fleets... don't fight them? Blobs aren't hard to avoid."

Something is OP? Just don't fight it.

Pfft. There are T3 alts for solo pilots in frigates in every FW system you go.


What makes you think every bigger gang won't be rocking a command ship?

The smaller group should of just stayed docked.

Then there's always solo PvP where you are one person flying one spaceship. As opposed to multiboxing PvP where you are one person flying one spaceship and a hidden support fleet which magically impacts your combat performance without even being involved in the fight.

A basic rule of PvP is that you pick the fights or you lose the fights.

My enemy is too competent, poor me.



I want to be "on the same playing field" with opponents who have more people behind their keyboards, and invest more into their ships/gang comp. Poor me.




... I can't even mock this. If your un-boosted skirmish ship is being caught by ships that are vulnerable to skirmishing (boosted or not), you're bad and should feel bad. In other words, if your Stabber is being caught by Mallers, you're bad.



I HATE HAVING TO PICK FIGHTS! Why can't I have a way to boost myself against everything, so I can fight anything without risking anything?