But if you put your booster in a guardian and he then repairs someone who is flashy, he himself will become flashy since he aided a criminal.

Giving gang link boosts to a criminal is no less aiding him than supplying him with shields, cap or armour.

Frankly, if he takes ammo from a fleet-member's can or uses a fleet orca to refit, I think the fleet member should get a criminal flag / weapons timer also.

Supplying ammo or giving solace to a murderer does actually make you an accomplice.

CCP, can we have some sort of confirmation (or denial) that the eventual intention is to move warfare link bonuses to on-grid only? There's some ambiguity here.

Wish that it was so. Assuming you count yourself among the best/good players, I dare you to try and kill a ship that is 30-40% smaller, has 30-40% more speed, has 30-40% more tank and applies tackle from 30-40% farther out.
That is what T3's has contributed to solo/small-gang since the alts matured .. it is quite simply not possible to compete without having links in todays Eve. You can try of course, but it is rather pointless.

You are right that proper blobs will generally just ignore links as the sheer damage of focused fire will kill **** regardless, but if CCP manages to solve both the application of bonuses issue (hassle to manually assign boosters as they drop) and the head-shot problem you are looking at a vastly improved medium and down theatre complete with a brand new tactical layer (ie. link killer squads).

It is perfectly alright if people retask their alts to logi/eWar as they have a hard limit (locked targets, slots) to how much they can affect the outcome of anything and defenses against the two classes have been (are being) improved a lot with tiericide: Neuting Armageddon's, Sentry revival, Sensor HACs, fast'n'small AFs etc.
In tomorrow's Eve you will need to protect special assets (links, eWar, logistics) a lot more than previously, which is a good thing as it adds weak spots to gang/fleet compositions and thus more complexity.

blah blah blah all hypothetical

at the end of the day you are still 35%+ better by the use of something that is not commited to the fight at all

Get used to the fact that OGB's are getting phased out

On grid boosting just means that boosting is going to only be availble to the blob.

Because having your out of corp boosts on-grid for high-sec wars is going to be oh so risky...

Seriously, they haven't phased anything out, they're just adding some risk to it. You know, risk, that thing that gets brought up (quite rightly so) every time someone tries to make High Sec completely safe. OGBs are at almost no risk. There aren't any significant trade-offs involved, it's just "do you have them or don't you?".

From Fozzie's post (linked above) links being redundant should make Command Ships and T3s with a couple links extremely viable as part of a small fleet comp.

This is not what Fozzie is talking about at all. You would not get PvP flagged or suspect flagged for activating gang links. What Fozzie's idea, which is not being implemented in 1.1, is that Links would trigger a 60 second weapons timer, preventing you from jumping through a gate or docking for 60 seconds.

This would not in any way trigger a combat or criminal flag.

Someone suggested that boosting someone with a combat flag should pass that along but Fozzie pointed out that this was unfeasible due to the load it would put on the server with even moderately sized fleets.

If you are jumping your boosts into a gate-camp I would be far more concerned with them being alpha'd off the field by said camp if you only put 5k EHP of tank on them.

Congrats, sometimes I actually risk a ship worth that much using a character with over 6 times that SP total!

You could also probably actually bring a second ship on-grid and take out the camp rather easily without any boosts at all.

Sounds like a fitting and ship selection problem, to me. Maybe you should try something with some actual tank to do your boosting. I hear they make these things called Command Ships that can fit links and have a decent tank at the same time. They appear to be cheaper than your gimmick fit Loki, too.

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I think it shows that the gang link changes are in the correct direction. I also think it hints that even a 2% bonus per level on a T3 is on the high side.