EVE General Discussion

Oh, another one of these threads...

Working fine thnx.

In fact, lets get some t2 fighters that wtfown frigates for thinking they can stand up to a fighter swarm without a fleet.

That'l fix the true problem.

Actually there is a risk free way of doing this and we call it a candy stick. What you do is anchor the pos fuel it and online it. Then you warp your carrier to it and open the manage box put in the password but don't hit apply unless something drops on top of you. This way you can assign fighters until your hearts content or somebody drops on you but in that case you hit apply and the shield goes up. Everyone who knows about fighters knows this little trick. The only way to counter this is too get a ship between the carrier and the stick before he puts up his shield that way when the shield goes up the enemy ship bumps the carrier out of the POS but you better be pretty damn fast or have a good warp in to do this because that shiled will go up fast. After that all the pilot has to do is rip the tower down and repackage it and take it back out takes about 30mins or so to resetup a candy stick.

I like this, or even off grid

It wont happen, simply because the solution is too simple and elegant. It will probably be resolved with some kind of complicated Fighter Fatigue Timer and a needless Fighter Command and Control Deployable with a new toggle and some kind of faction implant acquired only from a new kind of highsec exploration site or randomly distributed level 2 mining mission.

^^ Problem is you will need to escape the gate first (not easy), then find what POS the super/carriers are at and probably land something there that can last against any POS defences (if they are present) long enough to present a threat (though you might panic some into shields up). If you crash the gate with a decent force they will be nowhere to be seen anyhow.



What I'm talking about (assuming the sig/damage scaling formula used for titans works as it should) would have no (or very minimal) impact on on-grid carriers but make it very hard for "skynet" fits to murder small stuff.



From a proper "skynet" fit they will much of the time track and kill small stuff fine - often able to alpha even AFs, etc. also fighters can be instantly recalled to an off grid capital (warp scrams don't stop them - and shouldn't IMO due to more complex reasons than I want to cover here) making killing them in a war of attrition usually unsuccessful.

While you can't have fighters out (normally) when the POS FF is up there are a variety of techniques that can be used around POSes to be moderately safe through to all but immune including sitting right on the control tower with the FF down and emergency online it if needed.

Some of them have a few POSes dotted around a region including multiple in a system so that they can move around so as to make it harder for someone to setup any kind of ambush, etc. or to predict where they might be and so that they aren't spending a lot of time resetting forcefields so as to be able to sit at a POS with the FF down.

PS: Balance != nerf into the ground people.


EDIT: Slightly less arbitrary implementation of what I suggested before regarding POS restrictions might be to let fighters be launched inside the POS FF range (when the FF is down) but not assigned within that range "due to electronic interfence of the nearby ##POS module##"

"Net Neutrality" which will unleash political regulation of the internet will bring about Skynet.

Nah, not a problem. Just people not wanting to work even just a little, not to fall in.

I wish people would name it something else. The Skynet I know and love was the GSF POS that attacked us without fail even after we destroyed the tower.

I'm not sure the mechanic's existence is crippling your smallscale good fight there. The fact that the other guys don't want to engage anywhere but on their home turf where they have the carrier set up is crippling it. They don't want a goodfight, they want to kill anyone coming into their gate.

I tend to agree that perhaps off-grid assigned fighters/FB shouldn't get their ship fitting bonuses, in the same way that offgrid fleet boosts should DIAF too. But the ability to assign fighters/FB off grid is a good one and isn't the solution here.

But this isn't some huge unbalancing effect - you can't use this offensively to attack another system in sov unless the defenders have already lost the POS war, and you can't use it while roaming. I think the home-team should have the home-field advantage here.