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Let's remove off-grid boosting.

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afkalt
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#21 - 2015-03-09 11:32:33 UTC
Incidentally, I wonder how many people will get a fright the first time an astarte rips their faces off after being "forced" on grid.

T3 boosters are easy to kill, but actual command ships...yeah....sleeping giants.
Ix Method
Doomheim
#22 - 2015-03-09 12:06:08 UTC  |  Edited by: Ix Method
Madd Adda wrote:
Ix Method wrote:
Honestly that would be a bizarre justification for not creating compelling gameplay involving Orcas and Rorqs.


Quit trying to throw around the term "compelling gameplay" as if it means sometime to miners, especially in high sec. Warfare links I can see being an issue with the advantage they give, but you can't tell me mining links are as broken.

Do you honestly think people training for months to perfect a ship and then basically sitting in it AFK contributes positively to the game in any way?

Travelling at the speed of love.
Rroff
Antagonistic Tendencies
#23 - 2015-03-09 12:15:46 UTC
If your looking for a fair 1v1 your playing the wrong game.

Get probing :P

The only change I'd like to see in this regard (and coming from someone who has a dedicated off grid loki alt even halo'd to make it extra difficult to catch/easier to make hard to scan while using slots for stuff other than eccm) is that having multiple links makes you easier to scan down - someone who is pretty much impossible to scan down without virtues, etc. shouldn't be able to run more than 1 maybe 2 links IMO as a balancing factor.
Agondray
Avenger Mercenaries
VOID Intergalactic Forces
#24 - 2015-03-09 14:09:29 UTC
Belinda HwaFang wrote:
Agondray wrote:
or you could have someone use something called probes...I heard those find things and your partner could easily kill a boosting ship at a safe


And I heard that if that ship is a T3 alt, that you'd better bring a well trained and heeled Virtue set (2B ISK in implants) character.

AFK alt playstyles are frankly boring and do nothing to grow the excitement of the game in the long term. Just bring all boosting on grid. There is even a ship class specifically designed for it. T3's will remain a problem then but we'd need to look at likely on-grid T3 setups in variable fleet/gang comps and build this into the T3 rebalance that is coming Soon™

Anyway this has been discussed to death in other threads I'm sure.

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Fang


than lets get rid of alts to keep people from being docked up on multiple characters while doing things on other characters so their not afk and bored.

"Sarcasm is the Recourse of a weak mind." -Dr. Smith
Jessy Andersteen
In Wreck we thrust
#25 - 2015-03-09 14:27:39 UTC
I remember lest week: a boosted "solo" player kill my guys easy with links.

When the sister combat probe scanner get near his tengu, he leave the local. No issue with Off Grid Boost. It's make cover ops frig usefull for PVP.

The command ship have another problem: it's the same issue than Battleship and Battlecruiser lack of use. Not related with off grid thing.
ISD Ezwal
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#26 - 2015-03-09 14:36:17 UTC
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