What? Why can't the small gang have an an on grid booster too?

This point is moot, the OP don't want to be in the evil blobs so he willingly refuse to use number as a force multiplier for himself. His loss. He will get blapped booster or not. According to those people, the blobs are so powerfull it should easyly blap anything anyway so there is no point to keeping a booster off grid.

Well said. Off-grid boosts require too much ISK and preparation for dumb blobbers to use; I'm a little appalled that CCP is trying to remove a mechanic that is pretty much only ever used to help fight superior numbers. Boosts are one of the few mechanics that is exclusively used by soloers and small gangs and they should stay that way.

So what? Get more OP friends. If you don't then you are limiting yourself. Why are booster allowed to have efect on a fight while being away from said fight while every other thing interatcing in the fight has to be there? Dosen't that sound broken to you? What if insetad of boost, you could damp your enemy from off grid? Would that be a good idea? What about scramming? Webbing? Reps? ECM?

Yes I saw your alliance and it does not change my point. If you don't want to fly with many people, you should face the fact that you will have less ships with you to provide any type of assistance. Solo/small gang/large fleet, noone should be able to have an influence on a battle unless they are there on grid in the thick of it.

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OGB should go asap however. It's pay to win at its worst and the final nail in the coffin of solo pvp.

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Let's see...

• "Buy better gear" -- pay for new account, buy OGB alt. As stated previously in the thread, OGB alts don't count against "solo", as they are simply a game mechanic, like scrams and webs.
• "Makes the game largely unbalanced even for people who have skill in the game without paying" -- bad grammar aside, a few month old Atron with boosts can kill a near-full skills other frigate without boosts. Another example is "being on even footing" with much larger fleets.
• (My own addendum:) "Requires little to no special effort or risk, and is very hard or impossible to counter" -- No explanation needed. 'Theoretically counterable if you do X, Y, and Z' is a long shot off of 'marginal chances to counter if you do X, Y and Z, and your opponent is dumb as a brick'.

If you are ~super elite~, pay for your accounts using PLEX, and could afford the 10 bil ISK startup cost of an OGB alt, congratulations, the first point doesn't apply to you. Other than that? OGB alts are practically "gold ammo", whether they're applied to a fleet or to your super pro solo PvP.

Or, y'know, gold thrusters, gold shields, gold armor, and gold ewar.

Sun Tzu advocated that the victorious general is one that can force the enemy to fight on his terms.

To the OP:

Off-grid boosting means that the other fleet has no way to counter those boosts. If you have to protect your boosters in an active battlefield, your battle is that much more strategy and that much less 'hur hur you can't hurt us!'.

The mechinism where a ship boosts other ships has always been absurd and always favoured the bigger gang. Why any game developer would think providing up to 30% extra stats to a gang of people who already have numbers superiority is a good idea is beyond me. Unfortunately they did.

You could argue the smaller gang could bring a gang booster too but that would only have the effect of equalizing or in other words removing ganglinks from the equation as if they didnt exist.

Absurd Icelandic logic. . .