Warfare & Tactics

Armchair psychiatrist.

Only your perspective is broken, not the game. As often as i run into disgruntled pilots who fell into my web, i get pilots who i fell into their 'web' and used boosts to escape giving me props. Many of these pilots had boosts themselves and still deliver props for a fight well fought. Or they kill me.

I remember my vigilant dying to a 45 man battlecruiser hot-drop. You search for fair and balanced in a game that is and should be anything but.

EVE is not a 1v1 game. If that is the kind of fighting you value best you move to high sec and drop a can outside jita 4-4 or whatever the modern equivalent is.

Expecting an unarranged fair fight in low-sec is really the epitome of stupidity. You will not find one from me, nor do i expect one from anyone else.

+1

What you are describing is a person using link to fight a person using links. Therefore perfectly balanced. sounds pretty much like a 1v1 to me, only with extra toons.

Links are a 'pay to win' mechanic. pure and simple. You get an in game advantage to buying (or plexing or whatever) multiple accounts to give your 'main' a huge advantage against any other 'comparable' opponent. The original concept of gang links was to give players who group together an advantage to do so. Not to allow 'leet' pvp'ers to ROFLMSTOMP over 'comparable' forces. The mechanics were put in place and to aid in social play but instead were abused by the players and CCP has decided to keep, and somewhat promote the gameplay style (sidekicks etc), as it gives them greater revenue.

That fact that a 45 man BC gang dropped on your vigilant had nothing to do with game mechanics supporting 'pay to win'

And blah blah blah about 'can't afford etc don't fly' and all that shiz once again get distorted by the use of links. People also then like to point out 'falcon alt!' but at least they had to commit them to the fight and if you know how to you could counter them with something other than 'buy your own alt' strategy.

Eve is not fair, nor should it be, but it does require balance. When that balance requires people to purchase (or plex or whatever) a second account to be competitive then the mechanics are broken.

And yes when I fly with the guys links are almost always up as it is expected within the FW area. GF are given and taken and ganks happen as well. However the game mechanics are broken and I will never have a second account for links etc.

Yes I will get my arse handed to me by linked pilots, whatever, but when I'm out solo etc it is true solo as I like a challenge. The perspective is not broken but it is twisted by peoples view on mechanical balance vs account balance.

Yuri wanna come join the fighter squadron? \o/

Yuri still makes a fair point. You learn who uses links and add their booster alts to your contact list. When you see them in local you can avoid them if you don't have your own links. (LOL. Here comes so and so with his Tengu and Loki alts. Time to hang out in the POS for a couple of minutes. )

Literacy error is not the correct category, even if i was accusing you of something you did not say. That would be a reading comprehension error.

Much like every single wierd strawman paragraph in your post lol.

You cant get irate when someone (who didnt) accuses you of saying something you didnt then follow it up with several arguments they didnt say. Well, not without looking a bit silly anyway lol.

You are suggesting that people who use boosts are bad. Im just correctly asserting that you are just another tedious uppity dude that thinks the way you play this game is the best.

There is nothing to see here, move along. Secretly moves arazu into position. Actually come have a second look

You realize I brought my alt from nullsec and spent over 2 months training for links after they were constantly used in Innia and that is the only reason they were in Eha. In fact, I got bitched at for not keeping her in Eha more often since I would JC back to keep making ISK for myself.

Edit: what does everyone on here say. Adapt or die. Which is why I brought links to Eha because, in at least our timezone, 10 v 3 is hard without links. But in all honesty, it is crap to essentially be forced to bring links if someone else is using them and they need to be balanced, I..e read nerfed, more.

I really need to get the motivation to use links more often. These threads are quite entertaining. Don't think you will ever see them 100% required on grid. Best we can probably hope for is a slight nerf if they are boosting offgrid.

TBH I would be perfectly happy if they (along with any other "assisting" ship) were just added to the killmail if they get you.

The blob is irrelevant. Any and ALL game assets scale into blobs. Grouping up to win is a natural aspect of open-world PvP.

Links are broken when looked at independently of Blobs or "unfair" fights. Their risk & effort vs reward ratio is the issue, nothing else.

"but EvE is unfair": To be frank, this is untrue at the "game mechanics" level, and Irrelevant to a discussion about links. EvE mechanics effect everyone equally. You can bring any ship you want, you can bring as many friends as you want, but the general mechanics apply to everyone the exact same way. Links are simply a mechanic that is out of balance with the rest of EvE, and that is what I'm claiming needs addressing.