EVE General Discussion

Yea I can agree with that. It's hard to see when people are being boosted. That could be improved. It would allow players to pick their fights better. Once you're committed it can be hard to pull out again. I wasn't aware solo kill bragging is that much of a thing, but yea, having them show up on killmails would be nice too. Same for logi, but that's another discussion entirely. :P

Thanks man, happy I was able to help out a fellow pilot. :D

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I agree. That's why I think that they shouldn't be removed or placed on-grid. A balancing package consisting of timers, sensor strength, and possibly kill mail intelligence (although I wouldn't go as far as adding names/modules, maybe just some kind of additional "influenced by" statistic) could address boosters without making drastic changes. How about a visual effect directly on the ship if it's receiving bonuses, similar to various active modules? Then at least you'll have to work a little bit for the intelligence.

1. Combat links give a weapons timer.
2. Activating links increase signature for combat probes.

That would be a reasonable interim measure until they go on grid. Weapons timer would get rid of the gate huggers and station limpets. Sig increase should be lowered just a bit so you don't need a perfect scanner (with implants) to find them.

This would add a reasonable amount of risk for OGB without breaking any current game play.

I totally support this suggestion.

Boosters can easily be converted to valuable small-ship pilots with just a month or two of training, so I doubt any accounts will be lost. Also, I'd wager a guess that a good portion of boosters are already high-SP characters. OnGB isn't one of those "**** you CCP I'm done bye" issues; it's a "welp, there goes the ability to use a small gang" issue. And it won't fix the underlying "problem" (people not being "fair" in 1v1 fights) anyway.

Not sure what part of that was funny and why, but okay.

Since an OGB needs to be on an active account anyway, you might as well train it for something else. Most of them are probably like in the 40-60m SP ranges now.

Nop, i will perhaps transfer a carachter before, bunt not really need, i can use a pve toon as a scout, or perhaps still use a boost on grid, but some km far away, with stab, cloack and tank, still pretty safe. Or make a falcon or griffin alt, dunno for now, i didn't yet asking myself as OBG will be here for a while.

Links can massive increase your sensor strength and lock range.

It's not massive, as you make it out to be. It's closer to like 30% increased sensor strength, which really doesn't matter much if someone puts a rack of jams on you. I think people need to consider that most of the people who have links, have done a fair bit of PvP as well. When you fly around in your Atron and you get picked off by a Garmur, the links are irrelevant. You would have most likely died either way, with or without links.

By any measurement, 20km is way too small. That means that someone who uncloaks on the opposite side of the gate, would be practically out of boost range. Same for a fight taking place on the opposite side of a POS or what not. It would have to be the effective grid, or maybe 250-300km.

Except that the guy you're fighting isn't a solo PvPer. You're fighting 2 accounts and 2 characters. Of course the person with 2 accounts and 2 characters is going to have an advantage.

You make it out like every single Crow pilot is of exact skill and if they had a fight, they would draw each time, or just marginally survive. The only reason pilot A wins is because he's got boosts. That's your argument. Is it entirely inconceivable that one of the pilots is just better and would have probably won with or without boosts? Like people attribute losses to links, but you don't know that. The percentage of fights would have turned out differently, is not something we know. I'm willing to bet it's probably a very, very small number though.