Master Jaraiya
Ultramarine Corp
1130
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Posted - 2013.10.20 07:34:00 -
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Two words:
Team Deployment!
This is already an issue but will be more of an issue with the coming changes especially team killing. If a player is going to sandbag or team kill me, that player should at the very least have to put in work to infiltrate my Corp or Team in order to do so.
CCP, I'm telling you this because I care about the future of this game. If you throw players in matches with other players who have created alts for the sole purpose of sandbagging/team kill in FW, you will destroy this game.
Having a player grief your team when you let him in is one thing, having a player grief your team because you were randomly teamed up with him by an AI matchmaker is something totally different.
Team deployment is also necessity in order to ensure that the effort you put into a match is meaningful. Currently we have 6 man squads and 16 man teams. When my squad is in a match with griefers or noobs and we are fighting a Fully stacked Fully organized, fully Prototyped out team of EON for instance, it greatly effects the outcome of a battle. There is absolutely nothing worse than looking at the end of match leaderboards only to see that from #8 down contributed next to nothing in the match. Please note that by "next to nothing" I mean about 200 wp tops with a K/D ratio of about 2/10 or worse. This is not an exaggeration!!! I have been in many, many battles where this is the case and I'm very sure I'm not alone here.
Team Deployment is 100% absolutely, totally necessary and should have been implemented a long time ago. |
Master Jaraiya
Ultramarine Corp
1130
|
Posted - 2013.10.20 07:45:00 -
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CCP FoxFour wrote:Removing ISK Payouts
No, not because we hate you. Remember one of our goals with factional contracts is to make it something you guys want to play alongside public contracts. Removing ISK payouts accomplishes this goal and makes factional contracts an ISK sink. It also helps make them different, again another goal. We cannot just remove ISK rewards though and expect you guys to play this. See the next point!
In practice, this would only effect the portion of your playerbase which is not active in Planetary Conquest. The Corps and Players who currently participate in Planetary Conquest use their Planetary Conquest payouts to bankroll their Noobstomping Proto Parties in Pubs and FW and this will do absolutely nothing to stem the tide!
I'm telling you this because I honestly care, CCP. While I understand the reasoning behind removing ISK rewards from FW, the implementation of this will effectively lock nearly all players who aren't active in PC out of FW for a very long time. |