EVE General Discussion

Oh yeah forgot about those.

Delete all boosts, logi, and caps. IMHO.

I haven't read the replies on this thread.

My understanding is that CCP has hated off-grid boosting for a while. I was pretty involved in the threads to update the Rorqual, and the topic of off-grid boosting was a topic there, and one of the points made was that CCP is trying to find a way to make the Rorqual survive on grid so that they could get rid of off-grid boosting.

My guess is that off-grid boosting will go away at some point, but preparatory steps have not been made yet.

As for my input, this toon that I am posting on is my Rorqual and Orca pilot and as such is mapped for leadership, and I have recently decided to train dear old Paynus for a Claymore. So I have been thinking about boosting and whatnot. Now while Paynus is an alt and I would benefit greatly from off-grid boosting (my main is a maxed out snake-fitted frigate pilot), I must admit that I do hope off-grid boosting goes away so that booster pilots are actually a player career, rather than an alt career. I think it would make a dent in Eve's "Alts Online" nature.

With that, however, I think CCP should introduce some T2 destroyers that offer a 1% link bonus (where T3s give 2% and Command Ships give 3%). So boosting would still be available to small-ship low sec groups. The destroyers should not be able to use a covert cloak. I would also like to see T3s be reconfigured somehow so that they cannot fit both cloak and links. Basically, make the boosting subsystem an offensive subsystem instead of a defensive subsystem. So you have to choose a cloak subsystem or a boost subsystem but you can't have both.

I think off-grid boosting should go away and boosting should be an actual career for a skilled player, with more ships available to provide boosts in a wider variety of contexts, and with T3s nerfed a bit in their ability to boost, in addition to requiring on grid boosts across the board. I think this should apply to the Orca as well - it must be in the belt with the miners to give mining boosts. I think the Rorqual should be given a role bonus that makes it the only ship in the game that can boost off-grid, at least until they crack the nut of how to make it survivable in the belts.

No, the crappiest argument for keeping something is "because I had to do it". Brutus is spot-on right in his reply to you, and all you can do is continue the temper tantrum.

Boosting doesn't make you automatically win. You still have to put out effort, and you can still be overwhelmed, outmaneuvered, and outsmarted. Boosts just give you a little extra.

Your posts still smack of "I want it gone because I'm afraid of using it, and hate fighting it".

You should be able to receive boosts from a ship in an adjacent star system. Also, links should be active while cloaked.

It's not that hard to spend $200 on PLEX and go buy a booster alt. Stop being so lazy you dirty looters. It will be harder to farm effortless mails in an 8k m/s garmur when everyone has links but hey **** happens.

I make a lot of money so I really enjoy pay 2 win games.

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-PPC Warde

That doesn´t solve the problem in a proper way, because we need a solution that does not decrease the amount of action you get.

Finding out if somebody uses an offgrid booster isn´t hard, not even today. Usually, they sit on gates or stations anyway.

This.

Nothing stops you from finding and do some Alpha-loot-pinata on a ship.


OP. Be happy, they already changed it so you cant boost from the safety of a POS forcefield. If you think current system is flawed, try a system where you cant even touch the booster in the first place.

Hahhahahhaha.

Really, are you that annoying to play with.

You do know it is a MMO so instead of thinking in accounts....think in friends.

Let me just go grab my fully skilled virtue prober alt...oh wait..let me hit the character bazaar for that too. Scan down a strategic cruiser while playing tag with his main in frigs? No problem. I'm sure it's equally distracting for him to micromanage his booster in the delicate art of well...doing nothing. Glance at scan for combat probes or yellow boxing if you're on gate or station maybe. Risk? Minimal. Reward? "Lol @ this guy trying to kill my condor with warrior ll's."

You are CLEARLY not a lowsec small-gang PvP'er. (Actually, your ZKill history shows you're a WH-dweller).
Not only is your statement sensationalist and misleading, but you aren't even backing it up with anything but more infantile tantrums.

My alliance doesn't always go out there and ROFLstomp the other guys. We lose to un-boosted fleets. We also win while we're un-boosted or underboosted.
For the last time.... you still have to put out effort. Having bonuses doesn't make up for crap fits or pisspoor piloting, or "trickling in" to a fight, and it certainly doesn't change the effect gate guns have on a brawl.

Edit: Oh, so you're an Absolution pilot..... THAT'S why you want boosts on-grid. So you can see everyone else forced to play the same way you do. I now know precisely what your motivations are.