Saffoo
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2016.09.06 15:52:14 -
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Hi All
Well I've chewed this over a lot and come to a few conclusions about the changes to boosting, i'm probably wanting my cake and to eat it but here goes :)
Firstly I agree that OGB does indeed give an advantage to a squad or fleet of ships when engaging another group of ships etc and boosting should indeed be a more active, hands on in fleet roles
However there has never been any reason why both parties cant have an OGB and indeed everyone does it but i digress
So a big old yes please to on grid boosting? Well hold up for a minute there is a few flies in the ointment!
Many people have stated concerns over range, lag, TiDi, fitting changes et all and these are all good and valid concerns and time will tell how the changes pan out but let's dig a bit deeper
We are all agreed that these changes break a lot of long established game play some for the good and some for (hopefully) the better but i am concerned that CCP is attempting to extract more real money from our wallets
Let's take mining boosts as an example, though this applies to most other areas of boosting, currently you can have an orca boosting a squad of miners who are happily mining several different belts of roids, shooting rats, hauling ore and generally doing their thing and scratching a living from mining
Post changes they can no longer do this, this game play has been completely broken and they are forced to mine in a group, in 1 belt in a nice big bait ball
Yay you might say more miners to shoot, well look at it this way the only other option these poor miners have is to sub another account and train up another orca (or porpoise, dang this ship better haul some ore) pilot if they want to not be mining over themselves or overworking the orca pilots
OK like i said this is just an example of how these changes break current game play and throw in the need for additional accounts i'm sure this applies to other areas of fleet boosting and the need for additional accounts and hence income
I dont have the answers to make life fairier just that these changes have a decidedly fishy undercurrent about them
OK time to put my tinfoil hat back on :) |