Warfare & Tactics

While in 0.0 space this may have it place among capital ships and where anything that is not blue is a target I find in FW this is just another "I win button" for those who already have too much isk. Compare it to the learning skills that CCP finally had the sense to remove.

Two issues I see that needs fixing in FW:

1) Any type of boosting should only be allowed to ships on the grid and within target range of the ship it gives the boost to (IE 300km off gate should not work either).
2) Any ship giving this type of boost should automatically become a war target even if the pilot is not in FW (we all know its an Alt, so the intent is there).

Ask yourself this?
a) Is your SFI not good enough on its own without the Loki boost?
b) Should a ship not in FW be allowed to boost a ship in FW?


If CCP wants to make this game more friendly to newer players it needs to remove stuff like this.


Edit: Just found this quote (from "Trinkets friends") that I find quite funny but true:

"Besides, the biggest doctrine in FW right now is OGB alts. it is more important to tank via loki boosts than worry about lowslot versus midslot tanking philosophy. The moment you turn on automagical loki, it doesn't matter whether you actually have a tank, because you get mystical spirit fingers speed and unicorn levels of point rangge and sig radius voodoo. "

Agree with your post and the aggression timer is a good idea

In the Eve Open CCP Fozie mentioned he wants this too. Sounds like it's coming, just a matter of priorities.

Train your own OGB like everyone else did and even the field.

Man, your ass is gonna string when they drop T3's to 2%.

There has been numerous allusions by CCP that this would change, it's going to come when they work on the rebalance for BC's, BS's etc.

For once, I find myself agreeing with Cearain. I'm delighted that CCP is finally doing something about OGB.

It should be removed period.

I personally don't mind off grid boosting i think it allows the small corps to have boosts, and allows them to be on an equal playing field. Before ogb'n smaller corps like mine couldn't afford damnations and claymores so we were at a disadvantage but we can afford ogbers because of the small amount you loose them. I would say a better nerf would be to make it so when say a loki turns on its skirmish links that even with ladar mods it would be as easy to scan down as a battleship.

However if they do get rid of ogbing then i'd like to see destroyers fill the small ship small gang role for fleet bonus's. E.G. thrasher is like a hurricane with no boost but has fitting reduction to fleet boost mods and a t2 version that acts like a claymore with ship bonus to fleet boosting. Leave whether it should be same boost or smaller up for debate. I would say same because as a destroyer it's much more squishy and can be taken off field easier but a 1-2% less boost per skill would also be ok. Also in big fleets it would be more difficult to pick out which character is the boosting character. This would allow newer players to fairly quickly get into a fleet boosting ship. Another thought is that they could make it so the destroyer can only boost a squad or 1 wing at most. So that it is only for small engagments.

Don't touch my implants yo.