The reason for this is simple, the Warfare Links /should/ be being used in Fleets to provide more help to those who need it because their skills might not be perfect; or the ship they're flying is less ideal.

I see we are back to this again. Do not get me wrong I have invested a year into training a command ship pilot who can fly all of them now. And when CCP announced that there will be changes to boosting I was over joyed with what I saw. I felt the strat cruisers were way too powerful compared tot he command ship pilot who spent months upon months of training.

And now the Strat Cruisers are still unscanable as the Op so pointed out. I made a suggestion when CCP first introduced this idea. I see no problem with the Strat Cruisers unscanable set up. But there is a solution to offset this.

I am going to take a little bit out of the Science Fiction world for this. In every SciFi movie I seen when trying to track down a command center that was actively sending out information always used lots of power or was semi easy to find. The Boosting ships are like GIANT radio stations easily found when you hit the auto tune button on your car radio. CCP could do one of two things:
1> Active boosting can be found in system and able to warp to if you open your scanner window.
2> Active boosting shows on overview.

Passive boosting should give no information since anyone in fleet is only getting passive boosting with no links running.

I've noticed that even my loki with just 2 ( yes insane numbers i know) ECCM midslots became "almost" unprobeable for the casual hostile fightingbuddy, it needs a nerf ( i really want to see somebody catching my loki so I have to worry about it ..... (just kidding, i don't want to worry about it, but i should have to)).

Ongridonly-boosting shouldn't be the solution, instead simply remove the eccm/scan mechanics if ganglinks are fitted and its all solved without touching any ships themselves ;)
It does of course also effect commandships, but currently you can even get those "unprobeable" with a little more effort, hpwever they can't cloak or warp through bubbles .....

regards
rc

If off-grid boosting is on it's way out the door I don't know if it's appropriate to push hard for a change in the meantime that will have other balance implications.

Partly, because I am concerned that CCP will struggle with the implementation of something constrained to a "grid" (by definition "on-grid"). This concern is due to the fact that grids in EVE can be hilariously broken, intentionally.
10,000Km long grid in an "L" shape? Sure, we can do that.
D-scan says target is less than 50Km away and you can't see/target them? Awesome grid boundaries, yo.
Basically grids in EVE are pretty bad and hinging such an important aspect on their proper behavior is risky at best.

Without addressing the fact that, for all intents and purposes, T3 boosting setups are still able to be un-probable, basing the future of fleet boosts/gang links on grid magic is a tenuous position. Same with attempting to limit the module effectiveness by range instead of grid boundaries. Enter the scenario above where someone finds the edge of a grid and sets up the un-probable booster just on the other side. Hidden from view/overview but within the range 200Km or 250Km or whatever it is. Someone will do this (hell someone has probably already done this tbqh). Forcing ships running boosts to remain detectable by combat scanner probe is a surefire way of bringing risk to that aspect of EVE without relying on a perfect implementation AoE properly constrained by grid boundaries.

That is why, imo, it is appropriate.

boosting ships dont have any weapons and the skills involved in perfectly flying one are imense, so you want to make it easier to kill an un-armed (what about the children) ship, put a boosting ship on grid and its instantly primary just making the whole ship pointless to have in a fleet and the months of skills pointless

boosting ships dont have any weapons and the skills involved in perfectly flying one are imense, so you want to make it easier to kill an un-armed ship, put a boosting ship on grid and its instantly primary just making the whole ship pointless to have in a fleet and the months of skills pointless

As has been said over and over, "Time and ISK are not balancing factors." If they were then whichever pilots have the most skillpoints (time) and largest ship (ISK) automatically wins. GG, game over..

So you have a problem being primary in a ship that can keep distance on any DPS fleet, has 150-200k EHP and silly resist profiles?

I'm sure the logi flying with you won't mind knowing that you're a high priority for the enemy with fairly high survivability. It makes their job that much easier.

I fly a loki alot and have been primary and the tank of a t3 doesnt hold up that great when 30ships have locked you up even with logi, i dont mind losing ships but if a ship is going to be on grid for less than 30secs then whats the point in using it, so basically what you are implying is you cant fight a fleet with boost off grid the boost needs to be ongrid so you can kill it first.

I understand there are various circumstances but i dont see such a big issue with having boost offgrid

Resolution/Proposal:
Add a Signature Resolution penalty to all warfare gang link modules
-- high enough to throw the sigres/sensor strength equation far enough off to render boosting Strategic Cruisers scannable like other ships in that class (e.g. cruisers)
Add a Role Bonus to Command Ships reducing the above penalty by 99%
-- prevents the use of these modules from blowing up the sigres of command ships (BC hull so already not small)
-- potentially extend this same role bonus (or slightly reduced) to T1 BC hulls for the same reasons

T3 boosters on the other hand need to use multiple CPs in order to use more than one link. Giving the penalty to the CPs only negatively affects T3 boosters as nearly all other boosting ships from BCs to Titans (lol) have no need to use said module. That way you don't need to add the role bonuses to all other boosting ships to negate the change. Keeps it simple. If absolutely needed you could add the role bonus to the T1 BCs so those small few who boost with them aren't penalized too much.

I would prefer to see that any ship,other than a command ship when using links create a beacon to their on grid location, and if they leave the beacon's grid, their links stop working and has to be restarted, thus creating a new beacon...

So whats to stop people from just boosting from the undock in a heavily tanked command ship?

Essentially the only thing this will change is the price on the sensor strenght implants. And possibly give who ever lives in a system a home advantage.

Nothing stops people from boosting from the undock. This change won't (isn't aimed at) changing that. If someone is boosting from the undock (lowsec & 00), bring alpha ships and force them to dock back up. Boosting interrupted.

If someone were off grid boosting, just drop probes. Boosting interupted.