EVE General Discussion

Now I didn't look up who you were trying to slam. Whoever he was he may have no combat record and it might be deserved. However I did look you up because any time I see a character in an npc corp that makes this statement it is a bit of a say wha?

http://eve-kill.net/?a=pilot_detail&plt_id=697325

You do have some combat history, although it is not extensive. If you have more on another character with more combat experience and you want to make the post with your main retort, you should post with that character as it will carry more weight.

In an earlier post you quoted Vytone.



Now what I would say in response to Vytone is - Is it really your off grid booster alt that allows you to take on a larger gang? Because you probably have no way of knowing whether they have an off-grid booster of their own (unless you have a spy in their fleet ). Or is it simply the attitude of we are going to fight outnumbered using tactics we have practiced and thought out ahead of time, spent isk on fancy equipment, etc. I submit that it is the latter.

Everyone can/could emply a tech III alt. And Deisel, sorry to tell you but many that criticize the off grid boosting are not inexperienced or habitual blobbers. I've fought in many different scenarios on different characters (I have too many accounts for my own good : ( ). Lili has mostly been 0.0 and alliance level, what you would probably dismiss as blobber (which is really a relative term as there is almost always a bigger school of fish, unless you are one of the over 9000 goons but i digress). Takeshi strikes me as a small gang fighter RvB and all that jazz. So your aspersions of "blobber" ring hollow.

The presence or lack of presence of off-grid boosting will not affect blobbing. Blobbing is a social phenomenon. People will blob with and without booster off or on grid. There will also always, as there were in olden days before the tech III alts, be people thirsting for the challenge to take on a larger group. As Tekshi is trying to say and I will say as well "I was there" (admitedly for me on the receiving end being such anoob at the time).

It makes no difference all these threads. CCP has consistently said they don't want off-grid boosting. In fact they even stated it years ago before the tech IIIs were introduced. But hell if I'm going to dig through the terrible search engine on the old forums for when and who said it. It went something like - we want to eliminate the pos'd up command ship running boosts but presently it is too difficult to code. Apparently someone(s) starting to figure out how to change the coding to eliminate system wide boosting, or probably more correctly enable proximity boosting.

So people need to figure out what other things they can do with that alt. Train it in command ships that will be on grid? Make it a probing specialist? Not to find an enemy off grid booster but for warp ins and all the other benfits a prober can provide. Many useful things can be done with another character in this game. I don't know who said being a command ship booster is boring. Not at all. It is a blast being in the battle running links, fighting off tacklers, acting as an anchor, etc. I will say though the greatest thrill for me is flying logi and saving people in structure. Anyway, the old addage, adapt. It's coming. CCP has never wanted the off-grid booster. It is sort of inimical to everything the game is about, risking your ship in the battle.

Fom my understanding, one of the main problems was also the way shield HP bonuses were added - i.e. each time a shield boosted fleet would warp and briefly lose grid with their booster, they would have had to recharge shields.

With that problem gone, it should be a lot easier ro fix.