I can get around half that solo and I'm barely an alright player.

Except they aren't free especially against you imperfects.

2500 wp to get one is hard against a really good team unless you are also really good. I am average my corpmates much better than me.

Instant I win ehhh not so much i have survived them in mlt tanks with a decent fit.

They are giant strikes from a ship firing multiple blasts designed to kill giant spaceships. Your in a tiny tank...

And right now they are only small turrets firing them... wait till they can be fired from a dread or a titan.

The damage is meant to be huge... andnonly going to get big andnonce the maps get bigger? Their damage will seem even less consequential. But if someone drops one on only your tank... they wasted an objectiv clearing weapon on you andnonly you. Feelhonored.

I have no problems with OB being the hand of god. After all, it is the bombardment of the area with weapons far larger than any we see in DUST.

Its fine as it is. Hardly surprising that tank users are objecting to a "weapon" made specifically for heavy armor. Besides, a moving tank can usually survive an OB, if you stop, well that's on you.

Honestly, are you guys for real? 10 seconds before you call it down is pure bullsh*t. No offense, but the idea of an OB is to clear out an area quick, not alert enemies for 5 seconds that it's on its way. By that logic, a person can be up to 50 m away by the time the OB arrives, depending on speed mods. Unless they buff the OB to the Tactical Hybrid levels, I disagree completely.

Honestly, are you guys for real? 10 seconds before you call it down is pure bullsh*t. No offense, but the idea of an OB is to clear out an area quick, not alert enemies for 5 seconds that it's on its way. By that logic, a person can be up to 50 m away by the time the OB arrives, depending on speed mods. Unless they buff the OB to the Tactical Hybrid levels, I disagree completely.

So via corp battles atm when you call in an OB and have an eve player do it,

is it instant?

Just curious haven't tried it myself.

So via corp battles atm when you call in an OB and have an eve player do it,

is it instant?

Just curious haven't tried it myself.

EDIT

Also, is this the plan to keep OB's as are at anytime for the entire future or

eventually have it so you MUST have an eve player to call it in?

if the later it would make more sense, since the eve player is therefore risking isk as well.

no it's not eve player has to choose the strike and such. but it doesn't warn the enemy til it fires like the warbages do.

now what about my edit I made?

because if there had to be an eve ship in orbit for the OB, then the opposing team would know this and either kill the enemy ship or atleast let us know they have one.

I just hope warbarge isn't around to stay.

now what about my edit I made?

because if there had to be an eve ship in orbit for the OB, then the opposing team would know this and either kill the enemy ship or atleast let us know they have one.

I just hope warbarge isn't around to stay.

Its fine as it is. Hardly surprising that tank users are objecting to a "weapon" made specifically for heavy armor. Besides, a moving tank can usually survive an OB, if you stop, well that's on you.

I can agree with making the OB requirements harder to get. Increase the total amount of WPs needed to acquire an OB especially if we get larger squad numbers but everything else is fine.

I don't see the reason to give your enemies any type of warning and the amount of time it takes to call one, I don't see a problem with. Why shouldn't it be near instant? And once we get EVE players more involved, I'm all for the human error of calling in strikes.

They should also be FF in any game mode, to call it in on your friends should have some type of negative fallback.

It doesn't have to be a nerf, that was merely one option of many. Another is a capturable structure that prevents orbitals from landing within their radius (think AAA from MAG). A special hardner for tanks that significantly reduces damage from orbitals perhaps? Increasing the delay requires no new code though can can be done now.

Why not try it, it is beta after all?

A number of us have opposed the practically instant OB ever since it was changed to this. It's ridiculous to have such unstoppable killing power for such little effort. OBs aren't some "special event" that I think CCP has described them as, they're a simple participation reward that people gain access to just from playing in a squad.

Their being problematic is just evident when in the face of HAVs; HAVs being the ultimate price tag risk that are very easily, if not unavoidably, nullified by an OB that is hard to not get by people playing as a squad. For the OB to be such a hard counter vs everything with no counter of its own is pretty absurd.

The argument that "you shouldn't have stopped moving, so it's your own fault it killed you" is absolutely ludicrous. When I have an OB ready and there's a tank on the field, I just sit on the map ready to call it in, following the tank around until it stops. It doesn't require that the tank sit there idle for minutes at a time, just any pause and the OB goes down. Success rate in killing tanks this way so far: 100%. Driving a tank at 100% speed 100% of the time is unreasonable to ask of players in order to keep their assets.

The imps are good and as such have no right imho to whine about dieing

This is single-handedly one of the dumbest things I have read on this forum.