Warfare & Tactics

thats the old way of doing it. The new is to deploy a 70mil isk small tower and park your booster there. If somebody kills the tower just laugh at him for the wasted time and deploy a new one the next day.

All off-grid boosting is going to be removed anyway when they redo battlecruisers and the T3 command booster subsystem.

Unfortunately allot of fights in FW are conducted in frigs and destroyers which cannot engage booster alts on gates because they cannot pop the ship before the gate guns pop them, this may be improved a whole bunch now the logi frigates are in because we may be able to tank gate guns a little more but im doubtfull it will anywhere near perma tank.

Booster alts really are a problem in FW but FW does not in anyway need special PVP mechanics over and above what we already have, Low sec has good and bad points, no bubbles so much less podding but gate guns so harder to fight on gates.

As many people have already pointed off grid boosters have been talked about and are being looked at by CCP, this has been public knowledge for a good few weeks now, if this was reddit id call you a karma whore.

As CEO of the leading Minmatar Militia corporation I fully support your idea.

I originally liked the idea of having Warfare Link gives you a Weapons Timers (60 seconds of, you cannot dock, you cannot eject, you cannot jump through a gate).... but in reality if a t3 is sitting on a gate or station providing links, you only need to bring 3-4 Tornado's and you can alpha him.... (sometimes more, sometimes less depending on the tank).

I do agree, that offgrid boosting needs a serious revamp.....

I have no problem with implants. If you're willing to risk 3 billion in isk while flying a hookbill more power to you. The synergy between 5% T3 boosts and those same implants though is what creates 'God mode.' Cruisers flying at interceptor speeds with the same sig radius you would get with 1 billion Halo implants is obscene.

Sometimes just a drake with webs and a talos

http://rust-in-pieces.org/kills/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=17408

I actually wouldn't mind the off grid boosts if I could have crews that accomplish the same things.

There are several ways they could do this. I was thinking this could tie in with planetary interaction.(although I don't really know much about pi) People could build academies for each race on the planets that could be upgraded to do each of the races boosts better and better. So if you had a minmatar crew you could have one for the speed boost another crew member for the sig radius boost, another for agility etc. That would at least give people who don't like to running alts the ability to compete. Yes of course the crews would explode (or drop?) like any other mod. Could different races crews work together? Maybe at a penalty?

Since FW has a special tie in with pi maybe they could make these crews a fw specific thing. Perhaps you have to pay a bunch of fw lp to make the academy etc.

Alas the idea is not that popular. But there are a few, like you, who like it.

Thanks for all the posts, I hope CCP / CSM will take note

All the more reason to go over/hammer out the details now so that we don't get yet another change that they "will monitor" (wimp speak for 'we have no clue, so just throwing **** out to see what sticks') .. FW specific changes are one thing but link changes will affect all of Eve, everything from worms to high-sec belts, and if it is done wrong (which CCP is wont to do when left to their own devices ) the ramifications could be disastrous.