Warfare & Tactics

Oh man, this makes me want to restart Trinkets friendly Advice Column.

The people whining about the POS bubble lockout on boosters are the worst. Learn to look at your second screen. Watch out for nado gangs. OMG, there's a soupcon of risk in your bucket of win. Unsub now.

I, too, wondered about the problem in lowsec which i was experiencing. Like, when a guy locked me from way too far away, like, 80km. That was a problem, so unfair! I was having trouble not dying by just warping away! Much better now that he will be able to point me much faster. At least he'll be within range of my furious DPS, rawr!

The nerfs on info links I...really do not understand. I can't see how a TP being buffed 35% is worse than it being buffed 20%. A ship's sig radius isn't as big a problem as it going 53% faster, pointing from 43% further than you and having 34% less sig.

At least if you wer barkingly mad enough to have a Proteus booster in fleet your TP bonus used to let you TP off his Loki-boosted sig reduction. So you could still totally DIAF helplessly being kited by everything, forever, with your sensor brofist.

The proposed changes won't have a big impact. With current Loki boosts, an unheated T2 point reaches 36.7km; after the nerf, it'll be 33.3 km with Claymore boosts and 32.9 with Loki boosts. You're still not getting away from that fine gentleman in his Condor, I'm afraid. Likewise, the change to command ships and pos boosting just means that you'll be seeing fits like the one shown below sitting on heavily armed towers with their noses poking just far enough out from the forcefield to be able to provide bonuses while being impossible to bump and able to instantly duck back inside the shields when threatened, only to re-emerge and resume boosting when the danger passes.

[Claymore, who needs two boosting alts anyway]
Co-Processor II
Co-Processor II
Co-Processor II
Co-Processor II

Command Processor I
Command Processor I
Command Processor I
Large Shield Extender II
Large Shield Extender II
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II

Skirmish Warfare Link - Rapid Deployment II
Skirmish Warfare Link - Interdiction Maneuvers II
Skirmish Warfare Link - Evasive Maneuvers II
Siege Warfare Link - Shield Harmonizing II
Siege Warfare Link - Shield Efficiency II
Siege Warfare Link - Active Shielding II
[empty high slot]

Medium Core Defense Field Extender II
Medium Core Defense Field Extender II

(around 100k EHP with its own boosts, provides full strength tank and skirmish bonuses simultaneously)

I think ccp should hold off on buffing active tanks until ogb is done away with.

Legion makes armor rep ships god mode already.

cap pilot - not used when you are in high-sec
indy alt - alt on the same account already
logistics alt - it's too much effort for nothing really
scout - maybe, but usually i don't bring anything expensive into danger areas. doesn't worth the risk
market alt - why alt if you have main char?
incursion - boring farming

next options?

I understand that. But this still offsets the nerf doesn't it?

Analogy:
Imagine the heavy missile drake was crazy overpowered so that there was no need to fly any other ships. CCP give the drake a small nerf but then boosts heavy missiles. End result = not much of a nerf.

Eve is a game and not second job

everybody assumes that larger gangs never have links.

If you want to fight outnumbered you better have a good plan anything else just shows that the OGB system is/was broken.

Was about time it happened.

Some nice changes coming up. I just wish they would've reduced the bonus from links properly.

Corp theft.

I really don't think they are losing much. The biggest hit was to the tanking boosts (which mainly work with local reps), and ccp compensated there by giving a local rep bonus.

OGB still = god mode.

In the short term there will be fewer people with boosts because you can't share a posed ship.

People who used to share them in a pos will buy their own so we will see more booster alts, but perhaps less boosting in the short term.