EVE General Discussion

You can't give boosters a suspect flag for boosting, because it's not a targeted activity. Your idea would make it so that having just one fleet member be at war with someone would flag an otherwise-innocent pilot and ship. This is how the Lofty scam used to work, and is exactly why CCP changed it so that it was no longer possible. Do some research, and try to think before you speak next time, Mr. Simple.

Just to play Devil's Advocate, and because Im really bored, I just checked Zkillboard, and just to check the amt of lowsec vs nullsec kills on the first 3 pages took a few minutes. To go through a thousand+ in the last hour would be a feat, indeed. Maybe someone can come up with a nifty website app to do it somehow, idk.

Anyway, what I did gather, which may or may not be relevant to the question is lowsec vs nullsec kills. As I said, I looked first at Zkillboard.com, and of the 150 kills on the1st 3 pages, 50 were in nullsec, the rest either lowsec and a few in hisec. This was also ignoring HED-GP which I think most would agree would be considered a statistical outlier. So 33.3% of the kills on the 1st 3 pages were nullsec.

So then I went to dotlan's recent statistics and looked at the last 3 hours, which showed 860 kills in nullsec, and 590 kills in lowsec. So, 59.3% null, 40.1% low. I assume the remaining 0.6% was thus hisec. Those silly Marmites! (and their offgrid boosters and neutral logi lolzololz )

Anyway, I'm wondering if this can kinda, sorta, maybe give us a vague picture of things, simply by (hopefuly logically) assuming that there's going to be more solo pvpers in lowsec than nullsec. It's probably safe to assume that more (if not all) of the solo pvp engagements in the last hour took place in low, so what we're looking at is an unknown slice of 40.1%

Thats very vague, I know, but I think it at least hints that solo pvpers arent "an isolated" minority, a term which at least to me makes it sound like it's a slim, as opposed to what may be a statistically significant minority in the same way that lowsec's kills in the last 3 hours are siginificant at 40% of the total kills, even if that is a minority, for example. Maybe just a matter of semantics,idk.

Also, we cant just look at solo kills, we have to look at solo losses, i.e. players flying around solo looking for fights and getting blapped. IDK if there's an easy way to get that off the killboard.

what does it all mean??

You can't look at just the number of booster characters in EVE. Those characters are owned by players with more than that account. affecting those characters is affecting players who control more accounts than their numbers.

the people complaining about solo fights, and the sanctity of one account per player? one account per.

It is not a 1v1 complaint, get off that high horse. Lets here(hear.lol) a valid argument for booster alts to have the ability to project there increase to fleet effectiveness with almost zero risk from any given location in a system?

Don't get me wrong, I love boosters. They are a corner stone of EVE. but at there current state -and use. they are broken.

LOL, you're exactly right. I went back over to dotlan and discovered that, had I scrolled down, I would have seen kills in hisec too

Without bothering to actually add it all up again, it looks like there's more kills in hisec than lowsec. Sooo all my numbers are off. Ugh, lol.

"thanks for playing, Ssab!"

Highsec kills are high just because -so- many assets are there, for fear of the deep end. (and the sorta deep end where you can barely keep your head above water, or lowsec).

There's really no point in making a valid argument for why links should get to stay off grid, because it's due to a computing limitation and how the game is programmed. It's the way it is because that's the only way it can be, without rewriting the game. Getting worked up over it is pointless too. Just get a link booster. Playing with one account provides the bare minimum for change in this game of lots of people and even more alts.

Were dose your in understanding of the game engine, and the way it is coded come from? Explain in detail if u can?

and he's new. he's asking me to rehash years of topics about the difference between grid and system checks.

so why are you asking me to recount why off-grid boosting is stuck that way?

If it's up to me, I'd rather keep you in the dark. So no I won't spoon feed you info about brain in a box.