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Boosters are pretty much fine as they are. The moment they become safe to use and easy to acquire, they become mandatory just like faction ammo. I'm sure those with endless ISK supply wouldn't mind, but the rest of us wouldn't appreciate it.

This would never happen.


I never got these pretend scenarios where you have all this time to do all these crazy things.


If a frigate breaks inside 50km on the new BC's, they're dead, it doesn't matter if its a rifter or a daredevil, you are boned.


I went through a stack of 100 of most of the BC's, you aren't getting that "oh hey i better use my drop booster before that frigate gets to me" because by the time you've ran that thought through your head he's closed 50km+ and no amount of drop will help you.

Anybody who's been testing for the last 3 weeks knows that.

No I have never been in a situation where I have wanted 3 boosters used, but whats your point?
2 is the most I have ever used at one time.

It's a bad thing because you've already stated that you're fine with 30 mil standard boosters and 500 mil strong boosters. At those prices, an item you'd be foolish not to have around and use all the time, will be inaccessible to a great majority of players who can't afford to spend 30 mil for a couple of hours for PvP just to stay competitive.

You're essentially advocating a pay-to-win strategy, based on your being comfortable with them simultaneously being "must-haves" as well as quadrupling in price.

PvP outcomes should continue to rely on the skill of the pilot, not the size of his wallet.

No, everything is as it should be, CCP decided not to implement the removal of the booster side effects. Boosters will remain the same after Crucible launch.

You're absolutely right, and again, its not a matter of right or wrong here but what the majority of players (at least the ones responding to this thread) desire.

This is what I said boosters would become - another set of officer mods, or cheap "potions" that must be carried and popped at all times like faction ammo. The only way they would become the latter, though, is if the materials were found everywhere with minimal effort. And once they become cheap and ubiquitous, they completely lose the underworld feel to begin with. Why even have boosters if everyone was high in every situation because they are simultaneously harmless and cheap?

More officer mods is not what a lot of us want. Officer mods and other expensive toys are fun to have around in small doses for the uber-rich, but many pilots don't want to see the overall cost of entry to PvP to spike by that much. Adding layer upon layer of expense to combat raises the threshhold at which newer players can be effective in fleets, the only counter to blinging out your ship to keep up with the Joneses being to blob up with other cheap fitted pilots Goonswarm style, which is a fair enough tactic, but again, not that interesting, dynamic, or fun.

Keeping boosters at their current prices, and adjusting the mechanics to maintain an balance of risk and reward (I'm perfectly fine with scrapping random side effects in favor of predictable drawbacks) would keep them usable for a wide variety of players, which was the whole goal CCP aimed for in the beginning.

You may want them to become like hardwirings or officer mods, as you can both afford them as well as profit off them if they were that expensive, but the original goal here is to put them in the hands of more players. Having the cost skyrocket will result in far fewer pilots using boosters, not more.

I think balancing changes should be about finding a happy medium - Booster should not be so rare that only the rich benefit, but not so common that they lose the element of surprise (in whether your opponent will be dare to use them).

I for one was looking forward to this change, but thats mainly because I have a plentiful supply to take from.
I currently live in a wormhole making them for my corp of about 30 active pilots but this is just a hobby as demand is very low e.g last month i sold 10 mainly because of the risk of side-effects, (who wants to spend isk just to have a side effect that keeps them from playing the game).

I also don't think there's anything wrong with supply of gas as whenever i'm in the gas regions i can find ladar sites to mine if I wished, which i never do beacuse the gas isn't worth harvesting, and standard BPC's are also readily available, yes there's a shortage of improved and strong BPC's but I don't see price as a reason not to implant this, supply & demand is the great leveler and would keep the stong boosters to the reserve of super/titan pilots as is the case for officer mods.

What this change would of meant is that synth boosters would of been the must have with the illegal boosters reserved for thoose who put in the effort/isk to get them. As you can get the synth gas from high sec (apart from mindflood) supply wouldn't of been an issue.

I would suggest 1 of 3 things
1. Implement thse changes but have Biology not effecting time just the type of booster you could use, reduce the effeectiveness of improved and strong to 12.5% & 15% for blue bill.
2. Keep bonus/penalties as is now but reduce duration to base 10mins (so would be 20mins with lvl 5 biology) - with a reduction in gas use in production
3. change random penalty to a fixed penalty on 1 or more aspect of your ship.

lame double post

Don't stop posting guys.

Tell me more.

Boosters forgoten about?