Warfare & Tactics

For many of those hundreds of pilots thats they only content they log on for.

And if solo and small gang is happening all over new eden, then what are we trying to fix? Is the impact on all other types of content, from medium sized gangs to end game content really worth it if the solo/micro gang content is out there already?

or people can just man up and stop OGB. my corp always brings boosts on grid using either a brick tanked Prophecy or damnation (300k ehp damnation with cheap faction mods. imp navy EANM and imp navy plate). iv still not experienced a problem using the on grid vs off-grid, apart from the fact i cant fit 6 links (bring 2 command ships on grid!!!) on one ship.

Mind you this is for small gang warfare (lowsec/wh). In blob null i can see the use for offgrid booster as fleets are so large even brick damnations risk getting alphaed off the field. Also On grid boosters serve as nice distractions. in our recent small fight with chapters. they decided to try my force my brick damnation through a wh with 2 guardians repping it (9 of theirs vs 8 of us). needless to say, they wasted their time and after losing their pilgrim got pushed back into their wh.

In that scenario they wasted precius time trying to force away the boosts, leaving our guardians and rest of the fleet to do whatever they wanted, resulting in an "easy" fight. distract ur enemies ;)

Anogra

prophecy boosters are used for teaching our newbro's combat. a lost fleet will arise more questions and analyze then a victorius fleet, where often newbies either die from mistake or the fight is over before it really starts ;)

Edit: i also see a total of 1 booster prophecy lost, and that was last night ;)

There's quite an interesting post from Gevlon Goblin in GD analyzing all the kills in EvE of 2014 pulled from z-kill. Read that and tell us all again how inconsequential solo pvp is

If they added boosts and logi on kill mails it would at least show the reality of the fight clearer. TBH that's all I have ever wanted.

Aye, my booster main needs his recognition. Its upsetting that my pvp alt gets all the glory/hate.

Hello

I quit because of the lowsec meta. The haves started to outweigh the have not in terms of links and it's just not my game. I miss that old Eve. I come back once and a while and it's more empty, more elite, .. whatever.

They say there are two kinds of eve players, those that adapt, and those that quit.

I'm with Cearain on this one. OGB is one of my main reasons for quitting.

As much as I agree with changes to links, you don't need them to show on killmails to know who uses them (not that that wouldn't be a welcome change ... it would). I still pvp (when I can be arsed) in the bleaklands and the pilots who have links are pretty obvious, doesn't seem like a reason to quit really.

I see, you think everyone who says ogb are horrible must be my alt. That way you and crosi can keep saying you never heard of anyone (other than cearain) quitting low sec pvp due to ogb.

There is nothing "unfair" about ogb. Anyone who wants to pay for an alt can get the huge bonuses.


It's just that it is no fun to play those alts. Of course, it might be fun for you. But on the whole OGB is not something ccp would ever want to advertise. "Hey look you can play this spaceship game and if you pay us an extra 15 dollars a month you can get an alt to drag around that does nothing but sit safely away from the battles your main character fights in, order to give him huge advantages." If you don't realize how terrible that sounds then you are out of touch. CCP is not out of touch so they know not to advertise this.