EVE General Discussion

A fairly typical fit for me is to have an offlined SOE expanded probe launcher. If I find something on dscan that looks like it needs probing I offline other mods and online the probe launcher.

The timer addresses the issue of boosters exploiting sentry gun mechanics on gates and on station, but doesnt matter at all to the booster in a deep safe because nobody in a frig (remember, OP is talking about FW, which is mostly ppl running around in frigs) can fit an expanded probe launcher anyway?

This kind of bothers me. I have an OGB and I don't think people realize it takes like a year of focused training to max out leadership and get Command ships kills. It's like 20m SP all included. Then add in the fact you need to keep that account active and paid for, for a year while you train it, and keep subscribing it for the boosts once it's done training.

A lot of the comments I read are people complaining they can't beat another guy because he's got boosts. Well you're not fighting 1v1. You're fighting 2v1. It's kind of normal to get killed in those situations. If you had 2 accounts as well you could go harass the booster and force him to dock, then you can get your fair fight with the other pilot. Or you can bring your own logi, ewar, ... do something else to turn the odds.

Before OGBs were a think people just had a Falcon or Pilgrim following them. 2 accounts will always be better than 1 account and if OGB gets removed people will just find a new, better use for their 2nd account that gives them the upper hand in fights. Will you complain about the next best thing too? Or will you just accept that 2 accounts get the upper hand on 1 account and get a 2nd one as well?

OK guys, I promise this is the 2nd to last time (cuz I got another post inc) that I'm going to repeat this:

I bought a very nicely trained booster alt for 7B. I use him offgrid too becuase wth everyone else does, right? Didnt take me ANY TIME AT ALL, ALL IT TOOK WAS ISK I COULD GET WITH RL MONEY VIA PLEX.

As for scanner alts, I regularly raise them on my trader accounts (the traders have all the skills they need) and have no trouble selling em for a few billion isk a piece, which, again, is obtainable via RL Money --> Plex --> ISK.

Its freaking pay to win. Even for what little part I play in it as I say above, I still no it's BS too, and Im not gonna gripe when it's taken care of.

Except it's not pay to win, because having links =/= automatic win whether they're on or off grid.

When OGB gets removed, we'll just bring a recon alt instead. Give it a week before people come to the forums to complain how OP neuts, jams, damps, ... on recons are. At the end of the day, it ultimately still comes down to 2 accounts are better than 1 account. You'll have to deal wit it.

Is owning more than 1 account the same thing as buying a pretrained character or are you making completely illogical connections?

It's not really relevant how the character was acquired is it? You have an alt OGB, how you got it is irrelevant. One took time, the other took dollars, which ultimately are time as well. You earn your cash working, spending time. If someone wants to pay $250 for an OGB, or instead just spend the ingame time training it, the end result is the same, an alt account with an OGB char on it.

If you want to complain about the character bazaar being "pay to win", go make a thread for that instead.

Maybe I will make that thread, but the concept certainly PERTAINS to this thread as well, because you people keep making the argument that you spent so much time levelling up your boosters and I'm PROVING that its an invalid argument because any month old schmuck with daddy's credit card can buy an offgrid booster thats just as good if not better than your precious toon you spent a year levelling. GET IT?

And man, cmon, dude there is a difference between spending time levelling up your guy and "spending time working irl to make the rl cash u use to buy one." Cmon dude, are u really serious? So ANY P2W game is legit because hell, we all gotta work, right? Why cant we spend our hard-earned money on what we want?

Hell, lets bring back the Incrana micro transactions while we're at it. Its already done by proxy via plex for aurum.

edit: s c h m u c k is censored? really CCP?

I semi-afk my booster on another computer with its monitor next the the main one. The Dscan window is front and center the whole time, with the mouse pointer on "scan." Even while fighting, it's not a feat by any means to click the second mouse's button every so often. And yep, 'soon as I see probes I (being already aligned of course) dock up. Them thar Damnations aint cheap, hoss!