Warfare & Tactics

No. The 2 mill one fitted on a T1 BC without a mindlink. If I played by your rules, it would be 34.5%.

And the SP requirement is simply a barrier to exclude new players. If you're going to have such stupidly overpowered modules, then they need to be available to everyone.

I just told you that a link on a T1 BC gives 24% to tackle range! It converts your entire gang's T2 points into RF ones, at a cost of 2 mill instead of 130 mill per ship. If you think that's not a huge difference, you need to use links more!

The point is not in who the advantage is available to, it is the that the magnitude of the advantage is too great.

EvE Literraly stands for Everyone vs Everyone. There is little basis to support focussed 1v1 balancing.

Balance has been and always should be based on individual roles, not flying alone.

Your choice to go hard mode solo should not be at the expense of other peoples specialised characters who are trained to fill specific roles.

Though, i can understand. If i went hard mode solo and got spanked day in day out like you do, i perhaps would see it your way too.

Not hostility, empathy. Anyone that dies as much as you has 2 choices;

1. Get better at what they do.
2. Complain on the forums.

Both are valid, do continue.

Expecting solo in an MMO is beyond silly.
If you want a solo game try Tetris.

If concord are an issue for you -
Then you need to adapt and remove them from the equation by pvping in low or null sec and stop being risk averse by wanting NPC protection.

It is 100% your own doing if concord are available in the system you 'pvp' in. (Pretending high sec pvp is real pvp just for you cause I'm a nice guy)

You have the issue so you need to adapt - Not the people you refuse to compete with.

You say you would really rather a Falcon on field than a booster be used??? Really????
I somehow doubt that is true.
Other people would rather be able to fire/web/scram than just die with no ability to fight back. (Except you of course)

CCP might nerf boosts further but their bottom line will suffer considerably.
The people who use boosts are not against saving $15 a month.

It is people like yourself who are against others spending an extra $15 a month who have the issue.

What will you want removed if boosts go? You will need another excuse for your failure then. ECM? Damps? Combat Alts? Larger corps?

It is still silly no matter how many you tube links you post.

The dude in that video is not 'solo'.

He is using links.
Example:
Look at both the unheated and over heated point ranges from 21:21 on.

Seems the video you linked agrees with me.

Solo in an MMO is perfectly viable and all the go find friends arguments are silly. We all fly how we want and find fun.

I solo the majority of time however I'm social and like chatting to friends I know in game. Yes I fly with them from time to time and yes I can have extended period where I am pretty much a small gang pilot. Then I get the 'urge' and just have to go a wanderin'

As for Boosts I have no problem with them as a concept. My issue is the extent they boost is way out of balance with everything else in eve. I don't argue costs around having the alts etc as TBH alts is a way of life in eve and if they weren't boosters, they'd be cloaky scouts or ECM alts etc. But the actual cost of the ship + implants is what?! (2b ish?) dunno as I'm never space rich enough to buy those. But it scales very badly as the boosts are generally better than 2-3 full pirate implant sets & deadspace/faction modules.

They are a way of life in eve and I'll actively avoid known booster users while out solo'ing. As for the choice. Yes I'd rather face an ecm alt in a fight as there are ways to counter them much easier than scanning out a booster alt and killing it. Lets face it if it was that easy to scan them and kill them they wouldn't be used so much tbh. And having them show up on KM will stop a lot of the rage around them as people couldn't claim solo when they are using multiple toons.

Oooo and think of the rage when the Leet pvp'ers have all there BC dropped to next to nothing for killing that 10mil isk frig with a a bil+ worth of ships etc. It would be worth it just to see the rage on the forums

I do not know why solo pilot should even be able to kill guy who has links boosting, at least it is 1 vs 2 anyway.

Only problem seems to be that people are mad because boosters are 'hidden' somewhere and they can not shoot those, even if those would be on grid they could not do anything to that ship with their tiny solo pwnage frigate.

Truth about link is that those makes small fleets able to engage bigger blobs easier so link actually support small gang pvp not prevent those.

Solo in MMO is bit tricky business but some people still do it and are pretty good on it no matter if they have links or not. Other just die even they have links.

EVE is about larger set of thing affecting single attribute and that is what makes EVE good, it can be always different if you want to test out different strategies and links only give more variety to game.

If there is an overwhelming abundance of tru solo videos out there, surely that demonstrates there isnt a massive problem with boosts?

Solo in a sandbox MMO is a valid form of PVP, no doubt. However, it is not a valid expectation.



Wow, spoken like someone who has only ever PvPs on a gate. I barely ever PvP on gates lol. You are making wide sweeping conclusions from a place of little experience.

Get back to your gate camp fella.

i do not know what kind of eve you play but there is never risk to lose anything in eve. You may lose something only if you allow someone to kill it. Bringing link to grid does not make those any more vulnerable than those are now.

EDIT: and yes, frigate is good bait, put frigate to fight, probe links, kill them.