remove that invisible complex damage mod every weapon got at the beginning of uprising and that'll be a great start.

Well I would like to get married in the afternoon around 5ish. that way when all is said and done, i can spend the whole night getting drunk.

That is my ideal engagement time.

If you have no idea what engagement time means you can either learn it or submit to taking the "short bus" to work.

That's kind of like using a FPS and asking "What's a gun?"... It's very basic terminology.

In most games the TTL is 4-7 seconds

remove that invisible complex damage mod every weapon got at the beginning of uprising and that'll be a great start.

If you have no idea what engagement time means you can either learn it or submit to taking the "short bus" to work.

That's kind of like using a FPS and asking "What's a gun?"... It's very basic terminology.

That's the wrong thing that makes your post invalid completely. It's not an aRPG! you have 4-7 seconds to react in RPGs not in FPS. TTL (or TTK as I prefer to call it) is still a bit too much, but still enjoyable. It should be a tactical shooter, not a "look at how i dance and dodge your bullets better than Raiden". If you know there's an entire squad in front of you that place should be a no-go, not a good reason for "moar kills" and "moar dance"-
Moreover, the thing that makes you spend more isks is not the TTK but the tier system itself. In fact, if you do well in a match where there was many good drop suits and relative good fittings you'll gain extremely high $$$. In other words, the more your enemy spend, the more you gain.

Totally disagree with your post.

Indeed, opinion noted. Even though half of today's shooters are RPGs (Borderlands, Mass Effect, Farside, X-com etc)

In 1.3 the TTK was about 4-7 seconds because not all of the bullets were detected when shot. And now that glitch strafing has been put aside by said boost, the engagement times that had been present felt much more natural to me than the current setup. Without the ability to dodge from cover to cover Hitman style, the only way to make a game tactical under gunfire is to allow the player just enough time to assess a situation and move if needed, but not enough to needlessly disco.

If you cut the encounter too short people feel cheated of ISK, and for good reason as then most modules are rendered 50% or more ineffective due to almost no difference in engagement time.

I think the concept of "having to pay for gear" is overdone here. It's ISK... you earn it by playing... the cost is simply an economic concept to make you value your crap and react appropriately.

That said -- we do seem to die a bit too fast. I think a little more time would allow people with reaction time and good instincts to have a chance of surviving, sometimes.