So I want to be sure I am understanding you correctly. The OBS mechanic is there so that if a team is losing they can call a strike that will completely destroy the entire facility that is being fought over. Effectively forcing the team that was winning to suffer a loss or possibly draw. Am I understanding that correctly?

I can understand if the OBS was used to destroy the facility the Eve players who paid for the attack would get no facility in their attack thus diminishing the value of the target. However that Eve player would still have to pay the Dust mercs price and the mercs who forced the enemy into this drastic action still achieved a victory over their opponent.

However if this works as I stated in my first paragraph where the attacking team loses or gets a draw in a game they were winning because the other team decides to annihilate the battle and leave nothing standing......well then I can tell you right now this game wont last. Very few FPS players will continue to play a game where the other team can be losing and force a draw or loss to occurr simply because they can call in a bombardment from space. But if this works as I note in my second example then I can see this game being something that will last a while and FPS players could get used to.....for a merc who cares if the facility is destroyed as long as we get paid and dont get a loss or draw on our record simply because there is a game mechanic that can automatically force this.

You don't have to worry about that lol.

An orbital strike isn't like a nuke in COD, it isn't like you get it and it's "i win". To act like it is makes me laugh a bit, they kill you, you can respawn in what, 10 or less seconds? Hell you can even call in your tank again and be back at it in no time. PLUS you're in the imperfects, do randoms really challenge you guys enough to get multiple orbital strikes per match? I doubt it.. I wouldn't doubt one or two orbitals, but that's hardly "i win" worthy. Clearing out an area of enemies with an orbital is a temporary fix to it, if a team was winning before the orbital struck then they'll most likely continue to win after they respawn and get back to the action.

The only time it's an "i win" button, is if it wipes out the enemies remaining clones.. and even then, it's not like the OB alone won the match.

I can understand being irritated by it because in the current state of this game there aren't much for matches where you can drop a 1 mil isk tank, lose it and come out positive in isk. But.. at the same time, that's the risk you take when you spec directly into vehicles (and I understand how it's necessary, esp w/ being active in corp battles early on).

I've seen good tankers get out of orbitals before, the ones that stay still (like the guys sniping on hills in their tanks) deserve to be bombed and killed, imho. What else is going to get rid of you when you're on a hill like that, realistically? Swarms? You can see those from so far away, forges? Eh, not at this point in the game, most people aren't spec'd far enough to have bothered with much AV.

& honestly, would you rather they spend their orbital to take out your tank and cause you one death, or wipe out your team around an objective so they can run up and hack it? I personally only bother to use an orbital on the tank if it's causing entirely too much damage to my team or if there's two next to each other and both staying still (love it when that happens).

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On a more general note, I hardly think that a small amount of isk is enough to make a difference. Many of us know that there are many in EVE that have billions of isk, like making a OB cost 100k is going to change anything.. Could play EVE for one hour and get enough isk to afford hunderds of orbitals at that rate. I'm more for having people do stuff in matches to earn it like it is now than having it so that they can just pay it off.

In competitive matches you won't see guys getting orbitals on their own, not unless it's a very even match and it's action packed.. even then, it's not like you're going to see it spammed. This is a problem in pubs and only for people who don't understand the golden rule of not bringing an asset that you can't afford to lose into battle. Sorry that the game isn't far enough along for isk payouts to be worth it but I have a hard time feeling bad for people who drop uber tanks in pub matches against already bad randoms.

You want to talk about an "i win" button, watch Zitro drop his tank in ambush against no organized team of decent size or people spec'd far enough into AV to deal with it.