EVE General Discussion

thats not a hard fix.

make it so links only effect ships on grid with them, and they cant be activated inside a pos bubble, and buff the warfare processor sub on tech 3s so they have a comparable or better tank than a CS. If you fit a proper tank to a CS they are already pretty damn hard to kill if you have enough logi to keep them alive.

Fair enough but they also recieve a shitload of heat while on grid and if you are to bring one in to combat it also needs to be useful outside of pure buffing. Without making them overpowered as combat vessels and so on.

Also, since when were CCP fast to make changes?

You mean like they won't ban bots, since they're paying customers or they won't nerf datacore farming, since many people had datacore farming alt accounts and it had been around for a very long time? I'm sorry but your 15 dollars aren't any more important than anyone elses and if you think it buys you a nerf shield, you're delusional. CCP is making the best game they think they can and occasionally changing things just to keep the game interesting. Threats of account cancelation are heard with every major change to the game and are ignored unless they reach massive numbers. On the other hand well constructed counter arguments can change their minds every time.



You just mostly ignored the entire issue and called it a day. The basic problem is that you shouldn't get such huge bonuses without putting your assets on the battlefield. You leave that problem unresolved and just address a side complaint. Why do you feel that small gang shouldn't have to bring their booster on the grid? Because if you max out the boosting bonuses, your survivability will be low and are at high risk of losing the ship? Worried you can't continue to AFK your booster alt, if you have to bring it to the battle? Isn't that how it should be and is with every other ship and fitting choice?

The obvious solution, if you're determined to keep off grid boosting in the game, is to apply the boost fully only on grid and with a severe reduction to off grid. Something like 100% effect on grid and 10% off grid. No longer can you provide massive off grid bonuses and you'll get to keep your off grid boosting, but bringing your booster to the battlefield provide an immense advantage over off grid boosting as it should.

The only real problem with removing off grid boosting is what to do with large fleet boosting, since most boosting ships can't withstand that kind of firepower. Other complaints are really non-issues or not specifically booster issues. The solution could be as simple as changing fleet boosting mechanics to allow multiple levels of redundancy in them, so multiple levels of boosters could be setup in advance and on the fly. As boosters start to die the system automatically moves down the list of boosters and notifies them with a icon on their screen, that they're the current fleet booster. That way you don't have to struggle with the problem of how to keep a single ship alive during a fleet battle. Boosters need to die just like logistics or any other support ship, but the game needs to support that by changing how setting up fleet boosters are handled.

They need to swap the bonuses for the tech 3 and commandship. Tech 2 is supposed to specialize, while tech 3 is supposed to be generalized (so under this assumption vulture>tengu, but that's not the case). I trained for a vulture on my main but I decided to say f*ck that and got my alt into a tengu.

If you made this change it would really hurt tech 3 cruiser boosting and buff commandship boosting. Also, I want to fly my vulture again.

You do know you can train for it too and have one as well right???


You fcking retards haha

With how grid manipulation mechanics work, on the hands of experimented players, they will always create some sort of grid dungeon to hide their boosters around, also gang boosts will be reliant on covert warp ins just so they don't fall in range of the the engagement, you'll even probably have to babysit the booster with logis, in my opinion just rework the boosting mechanics from the ground up, entitled gentlemen who already trained everything gain the benefit of trying out the overhaul with full skills.

ITT: OP used to operating OGB to gain unfair advantage over normal (= not multiboxing) players through broken mechanics threatening to ruin the game by not paying a breathtaking sum of $15.

OGB nerf will happen because there are way more players unhappy with the mechanic than those who want to keep it. Thus, CCP loses significantly more money in the long run if they dont fix it.

Plus, vast majority of alts is paid with PLEX. Less alts being paid with PLEX doesnt mean less money for CCP, it means existing PLEX supply will be redistributed among other players.

I like your ideas, but your premise that CCP wont do anything about the problem is flawed. Or have you forgotten the 1500+ (I'm not sure what the current number is) of RMT accounts that have been banned. So, it is NOT a money issue, more likely a resource issue. I am sure they would love to fix this along with all the other things they have already fixed and are continuing to fix. It might make it into the upcoming patches, who knows.

About T3 OP's idea I would more see the boosting limited to a squad than to an arbitrary number of five people, but except that I think you're right.

If the off-grid fix happens, I just put my OGB alt in a Damnation with Slaves and call her an OGB.

Tho limiting the T3 boosts to a squad sound like a better solution.