Why do you think falcons are still viable and not just removed from the game? People pay subs for these alts, and this creates more revenue. They are not short-term alt subs either, I've been running my alt for more than 2 years.

CCP needs money bad since they are working on two games now instead of one, did you forget that dust 514 existed? Oh wait, theres also world of darkness. Why do you assume CCP doesn't want $?

And long term balance is more important than subs? LoL. Do you not remember how long hybrids were horrible for? I for one didn't even expect them to ever balance that weapon system. And It isn't "balance is good" It is "greed is good

I tend to think it's bad form to just wreck a working system on the belief that the new state might be better than the old one. There's absolutely no reason we can't both have what we want in a reasonable time frame.

I'm talking about those of us that want to be able to fight outnumbered and still have a chance of winning. Without OGBs this becomes so hard that it isn't even worth doing.

Nice job just pulling things out of your ass and assuming things.

Fighting outnumbered isn't easy, without OGBs it will be damn near impossible.

And I don't care about my ego at all, I don't know where you are getting these random accusations. And I never brag to anybody about how l33t I am or how awesome I am at PvP. I don't like it if somebody doesn't post on their main, but that is nothing like that.


If you can't come up with a logical argument and instead resort to making things up and insulting then I can't take you seriously.

Why do I like to fight more people? It's not because "I like to pad my KB" and "brag about being l33t to my friends", its because It is fun.

I like the rush of adrenaline I get when I play that way. Why don't I just faction fit everything? Because I can't afford to PLEX everytime I make a mistake and die, and I don't have enough RL time to grind level4s all day.

Having ganglinks gives your small gang more of a margin between being overwhelmed and holding a strategic position, even with both sides running links it still gives you a broader field to play in. It won't make up for lack of skill or negate the advantage of having a bigger, better gunned fleet, but it does give a smaller fleet, especially one pushing their skillset to the limits, more of a chance of making a good account of themselves against a bigger foe.

Maybe thats how it works in RvB joke pvp.

Do you even PvP dude? If I faction fit every ship I flew, then when I jump into a 0.0 camp and just get blobbed with no hope of survival... I'd be grinding level4s 90% of the time while trying to pvp 10% of the time.

That is very anti-fun.

Because if OGBs are removed and the small gang doesn't have the extra 30% everything, they will just get raped.

It gives you a bigger margin to play with - even when both sides are using it - which gives more room for mistakes to be made, more room for manouverability, etc. i.e. if your both pointing to 50km instead of 25km that means you can sit well outside the close range high damage turret ships and instead of getting instantly melted you can probe for weaknesses and try to pick stuff off, etc.

This is you not understanding gang bonus mechanics.

-Liang

I'm talking about one example of many possible ones and it doesn't always work out in your favor, but in the position of smaller fleet V blob you'd be making use of the links that gave you the most chances to control range and get out if your overwhelmed.

Boosts from squad 1 don't go to squad 2. You need boosts for all the squads and all the wings.

And this leads back to what I've been saying: ships that are capable of providing links do not adequately fit into the gangs that really need them. There are some core problems with simply bringing links on the field that must be solved first.

Bullshit or not, in the immediate future the game would be worse without off grid boosts. So let's see if we can come up with a list of problems that should be solved first. I guess I can't count on you for any sort of reasonableness on this subject though.

Yeah, but they aren't talking about removing boosts in general. Only Off grid boosters. And if this is the way that it is going to be then small gangs will have nothing to answer for a larger force who happens to also have a command ship on field.

But I guess your solution of "faction fit everything" could solve that.

I think your playing the wrong game... otherwise you'd better start calling to nerfs to implants, cynos, cloaking devices, etc. to.

Yeah I remember how you were **** talking me about my implants because of low sec. While I lived in a wormhole.

Oh? So I can't have implants? I'm not entitled to use them?

What about faction fits? I thought you said I should faction fit everything? Lol?

How dare I have an advantage?! You are right, I should start every fight with an ibis... That way I won't ever have any advantages over other players. This game is all about fairness after al