You ' re doing something wrong bud . If the eagle is in the core of the ring where you are heading anyway you don ' t have to worry too much about it because it will go down . Sounds like you invested too heavily in the corner . I find baby dragons to be pretty effective for breaking into a lot of the th 11 s . Either way eagle is much better place then it used to be <| sep |> racial spec is a 20 % boost per level to the link strength , so it ' s pretty huge in terms of efficacy . Basically everything has changed , but now for links you ' ll be coming in with the fleet and running your links pretty much as normal . Depending on what your doctrines are you ' ll probably be in a command ship that somewhat fits in with the fleet so you won ' t be bouncing every time your fire your links . A lot of how the links are used is going to depend on the fleetcomp and whatnot so it ' s kind of hard to give generic answers .