Just making them be required to be present on the battlefield is stupid. They're glass ships that can be popped in 2-3 Tornado volleys.

That's the part I don't wholly agree with.

Nah, dps is irrelevant.

What I'm trying to say is that my paper T3 booster in high-sec will never die even if it needs to be on grid. Meanwhile, players everywhere else would not be given the same advantage.

Requiring on-grid boosting would create a new balancing issue that would shift the risk/reward formula ever more in favor of high-sec.

What are they going to do, make boosting non-corp-members give you a suspect flag?

Oh, ****.

GǪwhich, by the way, rather neatly answers the original question: command ships will get their revamp together with T3 so make the CS better at being command ships than the T3s are.

Which is nice and has my support, but I'd still like to know why they're giving null players a crutch like this.

And T3 ships will still likely be viable boosters due to the 50% probe strength sub.

How quick does a single battleship die in a big fleet battle?

If incoming damage exceeds your hitpoints in a small time frame, logistics quality doesn't really matter much. I don't do 0.0 stuff anymore, but I'm gonna go ahead and assume that forty or more ships shooting you with 1400mm is going to be an instant death no matter what kind of tank you have on a booster, generally speaking.

Posting to confirm that all successful military forces put their top leaders in shiny vehicles and send them to the front lines during actual combat operations.

Yes, and Alexander the Great bravely charged an elephant despite being so Irish that he literally sweats Guinness.

Look, exceptions to a rule don't invalidate the rule. And the rule here is that you don't put your top military leaders and command and control systems within earshot of the enemy firing line.

Also, since when are British royalty brats the top leaders of anything?

So you don't have any examples of actual commanding happening in the heart of a battle more recent than...1916?

Also we have dozens of admirals and bugger all ships these days - in fact I think the last time we had less admirals than ships was the 1960s

Gods, well OT again

A larger force shooting a smaller force has plenty of time to look at such things. Oh no, wait, they'll just shoot whatever booster ships are on grid first and then the latter will become ever smaller.

Yeah, big fleets is exactly the thing we need more of in this game.