EVE General Discussion

A couple of random, yet pertinent, points:

1: Command ships will be rebalanced to be highly capable fighting vessels, especially if you choose to forego links entirely. Point being it becomes a valid tactic to have a large number of them on hand, and the enemy will likely have no idea which ones are fleet boosters and which ones are combat only grunts.

2: Why would your FC need to be flying your Command ship if you think it might be vulnerable to Alpha. Anyone can be designated fleet booster. If the only Command ships you are going to have present are a couple for boosting purposes, don't put your FC in one.

3: Raw tanking ability is not the only key to survival, whether it is done from a Command ship or a T3. Keeping range and being fast enough (in the case of the T3) is often the safest way to fit, depending on what the enemy is flying. Just stay close enough to provide boosts, and remain situationally aware.

Just a few points that are being conveniently overlooked.

The command goes too (how would you have a fleet without an admiral?), but that doesn't mean they get thrown into the trenches with everyone else, unless the trenches are very, very safe. And in the case of a fleet, by the time they get to the admiral's ship, he's not really needed anymore anyway.


A living commander can keep commanding, instead of having to fly twenty jumps back in a new ship. Our current system is more analogous to a Roman emperor running to the front of the line, stealing a centurion's fancy hat while yelling "psych!", and then charging into battle with the cohort. That just doesn't really happen.

To everyone else, I urge you to consider what putting links on-grid would do for game balance between smaller and larger forces fighting each other. Whereas in the current system, both get the benefit of links and are equalized on that front, on-grid boosting will mean that smaller forces will no longer be able to retain this advantage in neutrality.

If you're in a large alliance and this would affect you positively, please carry on with the "noob pvp"/mother's basement accusations. :V

Link graphical effects "might" give you away in a small gang situation, but who has time to look at each ship of a given type in a large fleet... Usually you're looking at brackets and that's it.

Augustus participated in a few suppression campaigns after he took power, but all others stopped being soldiers the minute they got their toga's .. in the same vein as today's politicians (fat-ass generals are just politicians with uniforms) are technically commanders.

Command in actual fighting is very much on the front line; Corporals, Sergeants and Lieutenants primarily, they have an immediate effect on outcome as their placement warrants.

The higher ups (ie. the aforementioned fat-asses) contribute with broader, non combat specific effect by shuffling assets around, generally making sure the troops are fed and where they need to be .. your roman Emperor (my Politicians) are more like the Titans in Eve, they get to press the button and provide generic bonuses to all under their command.

As for the plea: For every fight (when the moon is blue) against a numerically superior foe your off-grid links allows, a hundred fights never happen because of the self-same links.

Nope. What they said was, they would like to fix it, once they ever find a way to do so without breaking things horribly.