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Um.

Read -10.

ashley Eoner - the forum alt created in such a hurry the owner couldn't be bothered hitting shift A

Once again as stated earlier that's a +10 as now boosters have to expose themselves to combat and can be easily ganked if you want.

You even stated yourself that you didn't care about the mining links. As it is the Rorqual is so awful that forcing it to be on the field would pretty much kill it's usage.

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SO making it so that those involved with PVP are exposed to PVP is a nerf to PVP? That's just weird thinking. Where as before the carebear miners could keep their boosters completely hidden the change to expose at least part of their boosting is now considered an awful nerf to pvp/gankers? The only reason mining boosts work in POS is because CCP knows the Rorqual is totally broken and needs some major love. It appears that CCP is having trouble coming up with a solution so for now we have a bandaid.

In highsec by far the majority of miners don't even hide their booster alts in a POS. Why would you when your ship has 380k EHP and the "elite pvpers" are too busy crying about eve becoming Hello kitty to bother with getting a gank group together?

What's really funny to me is that most of those on grid orcas have minimal tank although some do run shield harmonizer links instead of a tractor beam.

It''s an ideological statement that has little relevance once you introduce reality.

Since when has eve been about equality anyway? Should we start partitioning nullsec so everyone has their equally sized space where they can fly their entirely equal ships while engaging in an equal number of activities?

How is "mining boosts work in blissful safety while combat boosts do not and it should be that both type of links work the same way" an ideological statement?

And both should be nerfed harder and be required to be on grid.

I'm ok with boosting ceasing to exist.

Then that would invalidate the -2 point. Works out as a +1 either way.



Except as pointed out, links are kept in NPC corps anyway, so the only impact to PvP AND PvE in hisec is that it makes them more gankable. If you want to count it as a nerf to boosting, fine, but as combat links are used for both PvE and PvP it has no relevance to this particular chart and has nothing to do with highsec carebearism.

And the fact that mining links weren't changed is also not relevant to the chart. You can't count the fact that they HAVEN'T been changed as a -1 compared to the old status quo.

Wrong. The current ships used are more expensive (battle cruisers and teir 3 battle cruisers especially are a lot more expensive) than the ships used before the insurance nerf. Ganking has never been more expensive.



If you lose the flying bricks of steel that are command ships in one volley thenyou deserve to lose them and you have much bigger issues than a lack of boosts.