Gizznitt Malikite wrote:Zloco Crendraven wrote:Quote:All defensive (Siege and Armored) links:
T1: 4.8%
T2: 6%
Max bonus per link with all modifiers: 25.9%
Former max bonus: 35%
This is outrageous. It will hurt small gangs so much. With this T2 small gangs won't stand a chance against T1 blobs. Roll it back ASAP pls.
Also mining links out of POS shields!
Two comments:
All those who think you can't compete without gang links are spoiled little brats. The "blob" can just as easily bring gang links as you can, and generally they are more likely to have them. Also, people were out soloing and partaking in asymetric warfare long before gang links became so ubiquitously used. You just need to learn to employ tactics, learn how to engage, and do so without having stupidly potent enhancements to your ship.
As for the "move mining links out of POS shields" too. This would be alright, as long as the rorqual can cloak while sieged. Put it on grid, 200 km's off the mining operation, so it can cloak up the moment a hostile enters system!
Obviously you don't understand how eve works, or you do but your actual small gang experience is close to 0. Not all fleets in EVE are kiting and sniping fleets. In eve u can fight both at range and brawling, you know? If fighting at range you need skirmish links, if brawling you might need defense bonuses. If brawling outnumbered you100% need or huge amount of logis or those defense bonuses.
So if our most often 10-20 T2 or T3 man fleet go out in a roam, we will ofc avoid 30-60 T2-T3 fleets. But we will go at T1 or mixed T1-T2 fleets with those numbers. Because those defense bonuses mean much more for us than for T1 hulls.
Numbers (blobs) these days are just OP. But specialized fleets (T2,T3) or higher tier ships like BS on BC and lower, with the addition of bonuses gives you a chance to fight against blobs even tough their fleets having the bonuses also.
Our 20 man fleet being able to fight against 40-50 man fleets will drop to 30-40. And because of that we ll need to bring + 1 T2 logi to our fleet than we used to and it still might not be enough.