It seems that there is no Command Ship buff coming in Odyssey.

When we're finished with tech 1 hulls we are going to start looking into more advanced roles, starting with Command ships

As a side note, as we announced a while ago, we are not pleased by having Warfare Links work outside the battlefield zone, and will be investigating options to move them on grid. Command and Tech3 ships providing that much of an advantage should commit to an engagement instead of being safely parked inside a POS bubble

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.

They can fix links by making them unable to work inside a POS shield, while at the same time giving them the siege mechanic that immobilizes the boosting ships during use. Then you either have to choose between deploying them to the fight itself, or risk getting probed out and killed without support.

A damnation can get over 300k buffer...

A damnation can get over 300k buffer...

With how many links?

The three it's intended to have.
Hell, even the wtfawfulineveryway Eos gets 140k EHP.

With how many links?

edit: Let me put it to you this way: command ships will probably get rebalanced to some degree so we can't guess around in regard to their future fittings, but I really don't see T3s getting the same treatment at all. As someone who's pretty used to fielding a glass T3 booster since when I do fight, it's usually five to one to ten to one odds, I can tell you for a fact that the ships are so thin, you could gank them with a few thrashers. And while this isn't a problem in empire, neither is off-grid boosting per se.

The only people such a change would affect would be null and wormhole dwellers, and the only solution will be to have backup boosting ships, aka more alt money for CCP.

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

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

I think the person disagrees with the ship being intended to use 3 links at once, hence limiting its ability to provide dps to the fight. Or something along those lines.

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fielding more links wont help since links dont stack over top of other ones. Only the highest bonus per link type is provided. You should learn mechanics better

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, ****.

Or they can use a command ship to fill the role of command ship.

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.