im getting really depressed that eve null sec is either completely empty - has too man ships for a solo pirate to do didly against, and when you get a system with 1-2 players in one is a booster ><

i like the idea of on-grid boosters but how about a compromise?

make pos shields negate any and all boosting effects while on grid with them. so if the boosters want to boost thats fine, but they have to be away from a POS - if they get worried about dying they can warp to a pos but their boosts become negated. simply set the activation so if your within say 300km from a POS they wont turn on?

so u can scan down the booster and do something to them instead of scan them down and watch them laugh at you thru a shield

If you have ever tried probing one of the damn things down you wouldn't be so cavalier about it .. true that it is no longer impossible, but if it is mobile (ie. AB in random direction) then the 4-5 probe cycles + repositioning needed to nail one has him way off wherever you land ... they are for all intents and purposes still unprobable.

Either way, it is besides the point. No ship (except maybe Titans) should be able to affect anything whatsoever without "being there" .. imagine the "I Was There" crappola video if the pilot used as example was a link pilot .. hilarity

Your proposal is based on a false premise. Namely that off grid ganglinks are immune to attack. Back when it was possible to make a ship unprobable, it was broken as they had no risk beyond spies in fleet. Now however, they can be probed just like everything else. There is nothing stopping you from probing and killing them other than your own ineptitude. Some people do put them inside POS's and although that blocks attacking the booster ship, you can always go kill the POS instead. It probably costs more anyways tbh.

If you have ever tried probing one of the damn things down you wouldn't be so cavalier about it .. true that it is no longer impossible, but if it is mobile (ie. AB in random direction) then the 4-5 probe cycles + repositioning needed to nail one has him way off wherever you land ... they are for all intents and purposes still unprobable.

Either way, it is besides the point. No ship (except maybe Titans) should be able to affect anything whatsoever without "being there" .. imagine the "I Was There" crappola video if the pilot used as example was a link pilot .. hilarity

Suggest you learn the finer aspects of insta-probing.

I like this idea, but I think theres some compromise needed. People pay for alt accounts just to run booster on them. They invested billions in them, either in plex or char bazaar. You cant just take it away from them.

I would make it like that: leave boosters as they are (eventually nerf a little if needed - debatable), but increase their effectiveness by 100% if on grid.

I think this is the main reason why we won't see the change. CCP is very happy that people are obligated to create these alt accounts to be competitive in this game. I think they probably see all the alts that have been created for this purpose.

What they miss is number of people who tend to lose interest in eve because they think dual boxing alts, sucks and yet increasingly you must have these alts to be competitive eve.

Again I think if they gave us crews that we could fill our ships with that would give us the same boosts as the boosters give (no they wouldn't combine with boosters) I think we would have a solution. You could either pay isk for the crew in your ship or you could carry around your booster alt.

Please don't sully the thread with ideas about crews. When I first started playing, capsuleers flew all of their ships solo. At some point, this changed, and it's not a change for the better. It belongs in a different thread.

Leadership boosts on grid only, please.

Very Decent Example.

Crews were always there in some form or another. I have been playing since launch and I recall from the beginning asking if there were crews in the ships and having an answer of yes from multiple sources. Either way...while I agree that the "crew" discussion is for another thread I do think he is on to something with his idea. Although if crews were introduced and the buff of a crew and fleet booster didn't stack...what would be the point of having a fleet booster at all?

I still really don't think that self-buffs are the answer here. Leadership boosts are special precisely because they require co-operation and teamwork. Allowing just anyone to have the same bonuses without having to team up with someone else is pretty much the same problem as off-grid boosting in an alt, only tweaked a little.

Squad/Wing/Fleet command needs to be brought back into perspective, and the best way to do this is via on-grid boosting. Preferably in something that's quite survivable. This was the original intention of command ships, and they need to be brought back into that line of thought.

Allowing the module to work while in warp solves the problem of giving the defending fleet the advantage. People crying about now useless alts should consider that leadership in battle wasn't meant to be something you could do while semi-afk. The alts are still useful, just no longer ridiculous. What other problems were people having with this?

I can pretty much fit my tech 3 very survivable even with 3 command links. Survivability isn't a problem. I also think command ships are still very tough and in larger fights you can use titans or carriers. I don't really see this survivability problem anywhere really.

CCP benefits from having off-grid boosting, players buy another account to pvp with a dps, logi, etc ship while leaving less attention for a offgrid boosting ship for the other account.

Offgrid boosting encourages players to make more characters and more accounts to increase efficiency without having to double the workload of focusing on more things at once, since you can pretty much leave the off-grid booster afk at a pos and focus on your combat character.

Your change is very unlikely to happen.