Reducing ganglink bonuses and increasing effectiveness in other ways
As I've said before, this is something we definitely want to do. Links are both too effective in their direct bonuses as well as their ability to be used off-grid. However getting this specific issue fixed is going to need to wait until after 1.1. Once we have the room to implement some changes to the way warfare links work from the ground up, expect changes to a lot of other modules and mechanics to happen at the same time.

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During the NEO tournament I think it was Soundwave who said the decision to get rid of it is already made. It's all just waiting for implementation.

Any one got a link on CCP's intention regarding OGB's?

Small gang and solo PVPers still unable to compete with people using boosting alts because these alts are still out of reach, albeit being on-grid

Rorqual pilots complain about being completely useless now for anything except ore compression since nobody dares boosting on-grid with one

People agree that forcing boosting on-grid didn't actually solve anyone's problems and merely created more

blow up a POS

At least you'll be able to see that your target has boosts.

Simply moving the link bonus from the industrial core to the hull (you know, the same as for every other command ship in the game, removing the special case for the Rorqual) will address this issue.

The issues being created are tactical in nature, and sure beat having to blow up a POS just to get to that "solo" PvPer's OGB.

Other pilots complain about losing bonuses when the grid breaks

Day after the OGB nerf:

Interceptor pilots complain that they don't get bonuses after warping after targets ahead of the fleet
Other pilots complain about losing bonuses when the grid breaks
T3 now become completely useless for boosting due to an inability to fit a tank while fitting multiple links
Smaller groups complain about the one advantage they might have had getting blasted out of the sky whenever trying to face larger groups because it's now being forced into the line of fire
Small gang and solo PVPers still unable to compete with people using boosting alts because these alts are still out of reach, albeit being on-grid

OGB-ing should be a "direct" thing.

OGB should be that you have to choose who they boost and in all honesty I couldn't care if it was in a pos or not. By the same argument that time in the game should be rewarded more if someone has taken then time to train a character to deliver specific boosts then this too should also be rewarded.

I think the solution is to limit how many and who can receive boosts.

OGB has fleet options that says "boost this guys warp disrupt range", "Boost this guys resistance", imagine having an active OGB that is a specialist role and not one to sit in space "somewhere" delivering boosts. (picture the booster toggling who is to receive boost in essence changing the boostered in relations to the environment) I would like to add that I think if someone is getting boosts it should be known to all in the vicinity and since the boosts are being directed at someone and not just anyone, the boost amount should be increased.

Nobody complains then

instead of on grid why not a radius. Say, 50km to start and 100km for each level of a new skill. to fix the issue of mining bonuses in a rorqual, have the mining mindlink have a new bonus that lets mining links only be systemwide.

Day after the OGB nerf: Even before the specific nature of the changes are announced:

Interceptor pilots complain that they don't get bonuses after warping after targets ahead of the fleet
Other pilots complain about losing bonuses when the grid breaks
T3 now become completely useless for boosting due to an inability to fit a tank while fitting multiple links
Smaller groups complain about the one advantage they might have had getting blasted out of the sky whenever trying to face larger groups because it's now being forced into the line of fire
Small gang and solo PVPers still unable to compete with people using boosting alts because these alts are still out of reach, albeit being on-grid
Rorqual pilots complain about being completely useless now for anything except ore compression since nobody dares boosting on-grid with one
People agree that forcing boosting on-grid didn't actually solve anyone's problems and merely created more

I don't think mining links should be treated any differently but that's just me. ;)

When I heard of the changes coming this is what I thought they would do.

I guess there are coding issues and implementation concerns that CCP is having to deal with. Hopefully they will come up with an elegant solution.

I don't think mining links should be treated any differently but that's just me. ;)

Working as intended.

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During the NEO tournament I think it was Soundwave who said the decision to get rid of it is already made. It's all just waiting for implementation.

2) That'd be a technical issue to fix along with the OGB fix.

Any one got a link on CCP's intention regarding OBG's?

OGB-ing should be a "direct" thing.

OGB should be that you have to choose who they boost and in all honesty I couldn't care if it was in a pos or not. By the same argument that time in the game should be rewarded more if someone has taken then time to train a character to deliver specific boosts then this too should also be rewarded.

I think the solution is to limit how many and who can receive boosts.

OGB has fleet options that says "boost this guys warp disrupt range", "Boost this guys resistance", imagine having an active OGB that is a specialist role and not one to sit in space "somewhere" delivering boosts. (picture the booster toggling who is to receive boost in essence changing the boostered in relations to the environment) I would like to add that I think if someone is getting boosts it should be known to all in the vicinity and since the boosts are being directed at someone and not just anyone, the boost amount should be increased.

Nobody complains then