All the pro pvpers crying...

Is going to be a sight.

2. No i don't care about fair, i'm in Dread Cartel for fucks sake. A ship providing a 50% boost without requiring to be piloted; with absolutely minimal risk (Or no risk at all if its posed up) is terrible, terrible gameplay.

You mean Coward Cartel?

The devs put out a blog on changes to the strength imbalances between of tech IIIs and command ships. Until their grand plan of removing the off-grid booster is complete surely they could just implement the proposed nerf to the power of Tech III command links.

It's very simple, and will partially fix the problem, tamp down the complaints, and maybe make command ships relevant again until the grand fix. All it would take is a simple change in one value in the database.

Hmm.. how did this go.. kettle.. black.. something..

Coward Cartel?

OGB is an option.
Gief moer options! Then L2P

You can always go to the Orgrimmar system and duel if you don't want to solo roam out of high sec.

go play WoW

I had a few hours before I had to go to work today. Rather then log into Eve I found myself blowing the dust off of Dragon Age (first one). Had I logged into Eve I know pretty much what to expect:

Auga - Minmatar has at least two boosters set up.
Kourm/Huola - Multiple OGB as well as various gate camps. I haven't gone here outside of a gang in months to be perfectly honest.
Taff - Dual OGB.
Siseide - Missy will be baiting people while having a cloaked logi in the plex with her. OGB of course.
Amamake - Multiple OGB between pirates and PL
Gulm - Pirates with OGB.

So I could find out which system Imperial Outlaws is currently harvesting with our own OGB. (yawn). Or I can roam looking for those few without boosts. I recall having the same empty roams in Null. The excitement of low sec is quick action. But if you need to have a booster in tow - it no longer is quick. People sit in their respective 'castles' and harvest noob kills while taking very few chances of their own. OGB makes cowards of everyone. It's as simple as that.

I had a few hours before I had to go to work today. Rather then log into Eve I found myself blowing the dust off of Dragon Age (first one). Had I logged into Eve I know pretty much what to expect:

Auga - Minmatar has at least two boosters set up.
Kourm/Huola - Multiple OGB as well as various gate camps. I haven't gone here outside of a gang in months to be perfectly honest.
Taff - Dual OGB.
Siseide - Missy will be baiting people while having a cloaked logi in the plex with her. OGB of course.
Amamake - Multiple OGB between pirates and PL
Gulm - Pirates with OGB.

So I could find out which system Imperial Outlaws is currently harvesting with our own OGB. (yawn). Or I can roam looking for those few without boosts. I recall having the same empty roams in Null. The excitement of low sec is quick action. But if you need to have a booster in tow - it no longer is quick. People sit in their respective 'castles' and harvest noob kills while taking very few chances of their own. OGB makes cowards of everyone. It's as simple as that.

week??? Please click my apology to be linked to the 'give us money' window.[/i]

Players that want to pay to win will,
the players that don't won't compete and will leave.
And the company won't care because they'll still be making money.

But how?!?!
Because while they lose some players not willing to shell out the cash, the ones willing to pay to win will (usually) pay enough to cover 3 or more of the previous frugal customers.
At least this is what microtransaction research would indicate.

Well, if that is true, it is still stupid of CCP to let OGB's stay at this risk/reward level. Why, you ask?

Before players had to pay for a Snake set, a Halo set and faction tackle mods achieve the same effect, and they would lose these more often, thus costing more and requiring more plex than the 1/month.

This is besides the scouting/Falcon alt these players were already paying for. Now they simply have an OGB on that character slot.

A lot of players that were still doubting to get a second account, can now benefit from their OGB alt that sits in a POS in-system and don't need to get their won, again reducing CCP proft.

In short, even if what you say is true (which I think it isn't) *it still doesn't make good business sense for CCP to allow OGB's at their current risk/reward level*

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As people are starting to see them prevalent to the point solo players are using them just like falcon alts (but without the vulnerability of needing to warp into the situation where the advantage is being applied.) They've figured out the ruse. But since they were eased into it I doubt you'll see the sharp reaction and mass unsubs like you might with something as blatent as GOLD +150 AMMO

Any equivalent of gold ammo makes more business sense though, since ammo actually gets expended. OGB's do not (or at least rarely). It is bad both from a gameplay perspective and as a business model.

But, I doubt CCP intended OGBs to drive a second-account business model. And if they did, they would make OGBs only boost one other ship. That would make more sense.

OGBs are simply a game-design oops.

No one says unintended consequences can't be capitalized on.

I'm sure once CCP realized OGB were driving second account purchases beyond expectations, no one stood up in the room and said "we gotta stop this, we're making more money on accident!"

****** gameplay stunts the growth of the game. They would make more money in the long run with improving the gameplay.

I agree. The question is, will they?

Yes because otherwise i will start hanging on Fozzies leg during fanfest/player meets