Kasote Denzara
A Vulture
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Posted - 2013.11.15 10:26:00 -
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Spoiler: There is no "end game" in New Eden, not even in Dust 514. You fight until you lose the will to do so and then you leave. That's it. This is one of the "freedoms" that is part of New Eden. You do what you want with consequences. I don't know if you realize it, but... Planetary Conquest is meaningless. All it really is... is simply an ISK generator. People use it to fund their advances in public games with it against militia and standard people because it's a crutch, a way to makeup for the lack of ability.
"But I trained for it!" I trained to be a heavy with 1200+ eHP and a nearly maxed out weapon (no rapid reload, I'm 'fraid, since I like having that opening), but I don't ******* use it against anything lesser than those worthy. If I went against that, I'd be no better than those I slay. Every single person I know that has been in PC travels in a pack of at least three, if not six, donning full proto. The fact that they are doing this isn't the (moral) problem for me. It's the fact it takes that many to go against new bloods and unorganized randoms, otherwise they'd get stomped out.
I own plenty of BPOs, but not because they are cost-efficient, but instead of the fact I am a collector. That is what I do. My "end game" will be realized when I have collected one of everything. Not FW. Not PC. Both are meaningless and worthless to me. For someone else, this may be another story. Maybe you care about virtual stats that have zero impact on reality, maybe you don't. Maybe you like to kill Amarrians to help your Minmitar allies (I do!), that's all you.
BPOs eliminate all sense of risk. I run them all the times because the ones I have are standard. My standard gear is actually slightly amped advanced gear because of all my investments. There are six weapons that I can use at proto level (on this character), each with at least prof. 3 in them, if not 4. That literally makes all my standard weapons of those superior in nearly every way compared to a "fresh" standard. In a sense, I'm not fighting fair either, but I have enough dignity to be level with the new bloods trying to play.
So, no. Go kitten yourself. There will never be BPO protogear.
"But why do you run BPOs if not for money?!" I give people ISK just because I can. If I get a match where I get a 200k+ gain, I hand off 100k to someone I met in the match. ISK is meaningless to me. There's very little that's interesting to me in this game and collecting keeps me sane as time passes. I also like to look for bugs.
If you think Plasma Rifles take skill to use and are fine as they are, you are the problem.
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