Player Features and Ideas Discussion

You can tank a damnation or boosting prots/legions, etc. up to significant levels of tank that make them viable to bring along with a gate to gate capital force I can't see on-grid/off-grid having any bearing there.

Tanks can be significant yes, but the reality is most will opt to keep those links off grid (the best tank is to avoid being shot entirely).

Observable behavior is what it is and is readily apparent on TQ.



What if that wasnt the case?

Or to say, I think an extra 2.5% would make it worth one of a group freeing up a highslot or two

Given that the most recent thread that appears on the search feature is 5 months old, and locked indefinitely, I would disagree. Please actually check the search results before condemning someone of which you accuse.

I think most reasonable people can agree that OGBs are not balanced and in-line with the spirit of eve, which to it's very core is a risk vs reward game, Using OGBs has incredibly minor risk for someone who is attentive for massive boosts, and aside from entering the system, which still requires multiple decloaking ceptors+fast lockers for you to be caught, you are almost invulnerable, if you just align to friendly POS / station in system you are in (NPC Null/Low), or a gate in station-less or hostile systems and warp as soon as hostile lands on grid, if they're able to use a 2b implant set and maxed probing character to do this. This can be further compounded by probing a Plex/Mission and making a spot on the edge of dead-space, giving you 16~ minutes of safety even if you are probed and a boosted interceptor is making best speed through dead-space towards you, alternatively, just hop spots when someone has probes on <1au and delete and don't use it, and you'll almost never be caught.

I think Command Ships are in a good place right now. T3s could probably use a small defensive bonus on the Warfare Link Subsystems, I think the warfare command processor should have been an offensive subsystem, but it's too late to change that now, so having maybe a smaller boost of the passive subsystem, like +25% Armor/Shield, instead of 50%, and higher base stats so they can function on grid would be a good alternative. I think there should be a faster more mobile link ship (Like a Destroyer) so that it's able to provide bonuses to smaller or more nomadic gangs, the new T3 Destroyers sound like a good testing bed for that role.

What is this drivel? Literally nothing you just said is accurate or has any revelance to my OP

Thanks for the troll bump I suppose.

I'd like to see a classful links system, which would encourage classful fleet/wing/squad structures.

T3 destroyers fit a unique link for all hulls dessy and smaller

T3 cruisers fit links (the current ones) and give bonuses to hulls cruiser to battleship.

Command ships also use the current link mods and can give bonuses to all hull types except caps.

And a cap only mod for cap hull bonuses. Not sure if it should be isolated to titans/moms, ok for all caps, a mix of the above? Maybe titans and new t2 dreads/carriers
...dunno, just an idea

-1 for more bonused ships to boosting. If you want fleet boosts, bring a command ship, t3 or similar, or accept unbonused but much more resiliant links.

AOE ranges that large, and that far reaching are hell on servers in n+1 situations, as it must make at least 3 database calls per ship per tick that you need to check for boosts, and this is disregarding the checks for valid fleet compositions.

**** yea lets make MORE ship roles that keep small gang players unable to compete with blobs

+1

Why would ccp get rid of offgrid boosting, they'd lose how many alt subscriptions.

You dont have to wait. It is demonstratably the case currently.