EVE General Discussion

In the Ships/Modules forum a poster seemed to recall that CCP plans to eliminate all off-grid boosts. I'm not sure if this includes fleet mining boosts or not.

Can we get a confirmation or denial of this? If it is not a Dev posting, please cite your source from CCP to show evidence.

Well I do hope it includes mining boosts ... why should miners be special snowflakes?

No one can confirm, since no specifics have been released.

The latest indication by CCP Fozzie is:

Area of effect


Source:
https://twitter.com/ccp_fozzie/status/679385773511061508



So it may be that different links have different AOE and mining links have system wide affect, or they might all have the same much smaller AOE. We don't know and anything we say here is speculation. It'll end up in a thread in the Developers F&I forum or as a devblog.


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Risk-free resource gathering boosts is just as bad a mechanic as risk-free PvP boosts in that it provides no interesting game play while actively hurting new and small-group/solo players.

Expect it to go away or change along with PvP off-grid boosting. Exactly how remains to be determined, but the Rorqual is due for some significant changes just like the rest of the capitals.

they already are :( they can do boosts within pos shields as far as im aware

nothing worse than being in a pod in wormhole, i feel your pain

That sucks.

We had an Alliance member have something similar and he made a similar decision as he didn't want to self destruct out of principle.

Ended up spending about 3 weeks in the WH warping around until he was able to finally get information about a highsec connection and bring an alt in to scan his way out.

Even if you get your ship back, it won't be in the WH. It'll be delivered to a station hangar.

Good luck.

it won't happen.

the demand for off-grid boosters in the character bazaar is great, people usually pay way overpriced for one too, so I doubt that they will get rid of off-grid boosting, that will mean less money for them. Furthermore, OGB has already been nerfed, and solo pvp is almost a rarity these days compared to 3+ years ago, so there is no real reason to get rid of it.
However, they could implement that on-grid boosting gives significant amount of extra-bonuses versus off-grid boosting, while using the same ship types. This can be used tactically, because you can have less and inferior ships engaging larger fleets, while having perhaps a rapier or whatever that has a long web range stay back with the booster to slow enemies down that try to kill it.

They should allow OGB to continue to exist with the same bonuses and if you bring them on field, within 150km or so, they should have significant more bonuses, and as an end result you have :

New challenging tactical playstyle that requires new methods, example interceptors to go for the boosters, while the fleets that use boosters have to resort on defensive tactics as well as how to protect it.

Knowing CCP, they will do it all wrong anyway at the end, getting rid of it all together.

This isn't speculation. CCP Fozzie has confirmed off-grid links are going away, likely to be turned into an on-grid AoE boosting effect.

It's not clear what will happen to mining links, but most likely some system-wide bonuses will be maintained in the form of the Drilling Platforms announced last Fanfest, a properly vulnerable source as opposed to the invulnerable boosters inside POSes that we have now. Perhaps mining links will be removed, or will co-exist with the Drilling Platforms and just be moved on-grid like the rest of the links.

These new structures, and the capital ship changes are going to have the most significant impact on general gameplay seen in a long time for Eve Online.

What miner doesn't have their Orca on site?