EVE General Discussion

I don't know much about boosting mechanics, as I've never used them, so just my 2 cents idea.
I do remember that CCP did say that bring boosting on-grid is challenging due to limitations of the game engine or something to that effect. So why not make boosting modules unable to activate while within a POS shield or within a certain range of the POS/shield and also while cloaked. As for being unprobeable why not add a sensor strength reduction to every boosting module, say 2% perhaps. Then it will be easier to probe down a boosting ship, but still need good scanning skills and ship to do so.

So boosting can stay off-grid but will be riskier so to say. (Risk vs reward I guess)
Any thoughts?

First off, to mitigate the invulnerability factor, most highslot modules have a lock which prevents them functioning within the bounds of a POS shield, apply that to ganglinks and you force the booster outside the POS shield, you make everything inside the shield outside the fight and push the benefits of ganglink boosts towards an active player rather than an AFK alt.

Next, to reduce the number of links people are likely to fit and therefore make the boosts a little more distributed, I would suggest adding a sensor strength penalty to Command Processors - making the OGB easier to probe out the greater its effect on the fight.

Greetings

Firstly

You can NOT Boost while being cloaked. This came up in this thread multiple times and shows that people who have no idea try to argue about this topic (you at least stated this in your post).

Regarding the probing: It is possible to probe T3s with Sensor Strength > Sig Radius already. THAT is the counter: Expanded Probe Launcher I!

Cool did not know this. So you can't be cloaked while boosting and good skills with a proper fit will scan down an "unprobable ship", then are people just mad that they sit/AFK in a POS?

A friend of mine recently joined a major nulsec alliance.

He reported that he was surprised to find out that there are many people that specialize in probing-out the so-called un-probe-able ships. Max skills, full Virtue sets, etc. Enough of them that a FC can call upon them whenever needed.

The ships may be hard to probe, but like most things in EVE, there is a counter to them.

The main problems are twofold. First being the large bonuses provided in themselves and second being the ability to provide such bonuses without being on the battlefield.

Greetings

Firstly, thank you for clicking on my thread. It is very important that everyone reads this and understands the situation.

I fully support the existence of off grid boosting. The reasons for this are many, but I have tried to summarise the main arguments below.

The Mining Argument

In EVE it is not convenient for miners to use mining boosts on grid. The only way for them to mine properly is for them to have a Rorqual provide boosts, at zero risk, from inside POS shields. It is totally unreasonable to ask them to risk in game assets. Everybody in the know agrees on this.

As OGB must remain for mining purposes, it therefore must remain for combat purposes. The reason for this is because CCP cannot code a new 'role bonus' for the Rorqual, allowing it to be the only ship that can provide system wide links, and only for mining links.

The mere fact you people defend the existence of off grid boosting by using solo PvP as justification is pretty hilarious. First, there is nothing solo about it, if you're using multiple characters at the same time. Second, if using boosters has truly come to the point, that solo players feel they can't fight without using one, it's just one more reason to let OGB die in a fire.