EVE General Discussion

The problem you suggest is no longer about having a booster, but now instead how many boosters you have. For each squadron you will need a ganglink ship and boosting character. This will make providing boosts more cluttered and annoying.

The battle will become all about who has the most boosters.

Is that what you really want?



Carriers get alpha striked by subcaps in current battles.

I don't see a command ship fairing any better. Alpha will kill before reps can reach it.

Ongrid will simply create bigger blobs and favor bigger blobs. Who ever is on field has the advantage and whoever has teh most booster has the higher chance of winning.

If all you do when in a covert is probe for link ships then you are beyond useless .. the combat prober's primary function is to find anything/everything and provide warp-ins.

Commandships and T3's have some of the biggest tanks in game, try fitting one without shoehorning on 5-6 links and be amazed! That said, all the CC's (except possibly the Damnation) should get a make-over if OnGrid is implemented, worst offender tank wise is the Eos .. Vulture/Claymore can likely get away with a slight/cosmetic change.
If you don't believe me, then find a roaming gang using a tanked link ship with logistics support and call it primary right off the bat .. have fun dying in a fire

Rorqual gets 5%/lvl when deployed while an Orca get 3%/lvl at all times. If you have scouts out, protection in place and otherwise feeling good about yourself deploy the big boy .. otherwise use the Orca. Where does it say that getting maximum bonuses at all times is a right?
Hell, if things are hot'ish you can slap the mining links onto a bricked Damnation and lose <10% bonus .. end of the world it is not.

As for forcing a type of play; To be competitive in PvP today one is forced to have links available .. making them ongrid doesn't even register on the "being forced" scale, it is more comparable to the Falcon range nerf than anything else.

With immense power there should be equal vulnerability .. and being able to effectively double the power of an entire fleet is rather immense.

No risk and 25% more shields for a whole fleet is silly.

Well looks like the solution will now be to bring bigger blobs and more boosters.

'i can't bring my booster ship on grid, it might get shot at! Then I wouldnt be able to bring out only the most blinged out t3 fleet boosters with impunity!'

lol jesus

AFAIK , the dev mentioned having CS's to get 2 racial bonusses, so (FOR EXAMPLE) the EOS would get a 5% bonus per level for Information warfare and Skirmish.

This is what I understood from him.
How many links you actually fit is up to the pilot. I myself fly a lot in a Damnation with only 2 links, 1 passive EHP and a skirmish (yes really) for lower sigradius. Both heavily tank your fleet members more.

On the ongrid / offgrid bonusses : Again, the dev said it would be LESS, not gone, when the booster is not on grid. If you like to pussy away in a pos while your fleetmembers are dying/fighting , a lesser bonus makes sense.

A fleet command ship belongs in the frontline.

Only downside I see is by how I and my fellow FC's fly gangs : split in 2-3 squads, with indivudual Squad "FC's" to surround reds , be in adjecent systems on the gate to catch people that want to get out etc.. This requires a booster per Squad. But if we do shield gangs, a drake with a siege link in will do, with a wing commander vulture, so when we fight together we have max boosts, and when divided we have some smaller bonus per squad.

The unprobable loki's need to go too. It just doesn't make sense that a mindlinked t2 warfare linked loki still cannot be probed, when fitted properly.

To give my 2 cents as someone who uses offgrid boosting and fights against those who do erry day, I love the idea of making it on-grid specific. Having an unprobable loki booster alt hidden in a deep safe adds absolutely nothing to tactical or strategic side of battle. Its only counter is to have one of your own. This is both dumb for gameplay's sake, and makes no sense from logical standpoint, that some dude millions of km away is somehow supercharging your ****.

I also think something needs to be done RE aggression. It doesn't make sense that a neutral RR will be flagged as enemy when he reps your enemy but a neutral booster won't. He is arguably giving as much of a benefit to your enemies as the RR but you can't do ****. It's become so that many corps and even individuals (like myself) will keep a neutral Loki alt in a deep safe in system just throwing out boosts completely scott-free from harm or retribution.

Make them only work on grid or at the very least be 50% as good if off-grid.

What I want is for you to either HTFU or GTFO.

Off grid boosting = mini-siege mode Let's say because you need moar powah to give the bonuses to a fleet somewhere not nearby, and to get that powah you must go into siege mode. Mini because keeping it under 5 minutes is probably good--enough time to be found by someone who knows what they are doing, even if nigh unprobable.

lolololol

easy fix the whole, 1000 ships can target you all at once without some sort of draw back.

I've been here for 7 years. And one day they will choose one of the many many fixes for this.

I like the one where as long as multiple people are in the process of targeting, targeting slows down for each next person in the stack, until the person below them is done targeting. Basically you lower the sig radius of command ships. This combined with the new target breaker module, should keep you alive in a well organized fight.

fit yourself with a buffer tank and have back up to heal you.