CSM Campaigns

No I am not assuming larger gangs are linkless these days. I assume everyone to have links on and adjust my piloting based around that.

For the whole linked blob vs linked small gang I feel like a smaller gang will have more experience flying with links and against people with links and should usually have better tactics and fleet concepts. So they can maximize the benefits of their force multipliers. There will of course always be gangs that you can not attack without getting totally wrecked and that is fine. You should not expect to win every single few versus many fights, especially not against equally skilled people.

Will vote 4 Gorski for booshvouch and ECM nerf.

In all honestly though, Gorski is a legit pvper and low sec bad, he knows the struggles of the people and how the meta effects all of our gameplay. Solopvp needs a candidate!

Gorski for CSM

I have no problem with this. I have personally run incursions before and I know they are doable without links. I know incursion runners are smart people and I am sure they will find ways to move around this "problem".

Gorskis already answered this but I'd just like to say I agree with him.

Its pretty hard to fit multiple links to a ship that can keep up with say a kiting Ishtar and the like

Johnny knows what up. keep it up gorski

I've never seen anyone run for the CSM with an honest-to-god stand-up comedy routine before.

Am please with this +1. Would probably have to increase the respawn timer on these like an hour, so that we can still all dog pile into 1 plex at a time.

one of the problems i find with a low sec market is the people there dont give you the chance for someone to set up a market and would rather kill the guy rather than allowing him to bring in ammo and other goods that would benefit that low sec group.
Theres a big enough problem in high sec trying to be an industrialist with gankers, and cant be out in null because of CTAs.

Thread takeover - but still part of the problem.

There is no low-sec market in eve because of broken game mechanics - jump freighter is the problem for markets - as the titan bridge is a problem in pvp. Those work on the principle of WOW - low risk, high reward.

Gatescamps that can get blockade runners/ cloaky haulers will mostly have OGB - back on thread.

Eve wanted to be high risk - high reward - a low sec market would be an wonderful niche for many traders, which could make at least 15% profit to jita prices, 30-50% are possible. That would be a special trade career, a mix of piloting and trading.

But the game is broken.

On grid boosters kill small gang action.
Titan bridges kill gang action.
Jump freighters kill markets.

I see that removing the three would destroy most null "ecomonies" - and CCP only cares for null sec, because they think that are most of their customers.

A fast look at game statistics will show that most eve players live in high sec . . . most null systems are totally deserted, because there is nothing in this systems that is worth living there.

DbD may honor an trade agreement - but kamlea for instance is visited by tons of pure gankers, like PL and all those other nullbears. Strange that all the nullbear come to FW space to have some combat.

Eve needs a game balancing - not only ship balancing.

To many "devs" tamperd with the game without thinking of consequences - I love this game, but it can be very boring a times.

Just straight up stating that the game is broken is a bit bittervet/grim don't you think. I really think eve is a wonderful game and there is a reason I have been playing since 2003. You can't really move onto other mmos after playing Eve and getting stuck.

On jfs removing risk from hauling:

I really agree with this. There is almost no risk in piloting a jf unless you **** up. I would love to have people having to organize defense fleets to bring a freighter out a bit into lowsec to deliver goods. I have seen Brave Newbies do this and it seems kind of a fun thing to do. Without jump freighters deep 0.0 logistics would be a real pain in the ass though and that's why it probably should be easier to build stuff out there.

My stance on links and off grid boosting:

I think that links are in a fine place power wise and projection wise. They have way to little risk with using them though and its next to impossible to kill a command ship on station. There are many things I think CCP can do to solve this. One way to solve this is to give link activation a aggression timer. This would stop station and gate linking. Another problem with linking is the fact that the t3 ships currently can do way to many things at the same time.

Being able to warp cloaked, ignore bubbles and provide links at the same time is to much and I will wait for the t3 rebalance and hope something gets changed here. In general I think t3 cruisers are probably way to strong. Another thing I kinda don't like is the fact that these can be made next to impossible to probe. Activating links should expand your sig radius massively or they could just remove the eccm effect on how hard it is to probe you.

I think that we are currently far away from having links on grid. I do not think CCP should change stuff as drastically as most people want. I do not want a rlml scenario where CCP rushes something into the game almost unannounced without any time to listen to criticism. In order to put links on grid I feel we need more ships able to provide links. I have suggested a new t2 destroyer class. Battlecruisers needs to be able to fit links without compromising their entire fit and maybe allow more then 3 ships to provide boosts for a fleet.

I am pretty certain that CCP has a end goal where links are on grid and I personally have no problem with this I will do what I did when CCP changed hmls, rlmls, tracking enhancers and warp speeds. Adapt and move on. I have never blamed a loss on the other guy having links and I would never do that same thing with ECM, getting blobbed etc. It is part of the game at this moment and you need to accept that. Oh and by the way I do not use link alts all the time as some people have suggested. Trying to get a legion/damnation to keep up with a cruiser/frig after the warp speed change is such a pain in the ass that I just don't bother and to be honest you don't really need it. People are overestimating the power of them pretty hard. Especially skirmish and info because those are both counter able by good piloting.

I understand that some of you guys who solo pvp do not share my views on linking alts and if that is the only question that matters to you then I might not be the most militant guy. I do not think removing something completely or just mindlessly putting them on grid is a good solution.