Yes, you heard wrong.

@OP
This message is coming from someone that runs Prototype suits in every game. BPOs of anything more than STD gear is bad for the economy. It would completely invalidate the open market concept that CCP hopes to someday implement. I can run Prototype suits all day, in every match, because I have a KDR high enough to support the loss of a few suits each match, and going agsint other people in prototype gear means I earn more ISK per match. Best ISK payment from an Ambush match was around 900,000 ISK. None of my WPs came from Vehicle destruction, btw.

There are definitely people that can only afford to run prototype suits as often as I do because they have big fat corp wallets that came from PC and they earn their ISK from PC, but this is a horrible Idea. Don't use what you can't afford to lose. That's the concept that drives an economy. Right now we can only buy things from NPC, but if we ever want there to be player-trading and DUST to EVE transaction, we cannot have any more BPOs than we currently do.

Risk is irrelevant here. The notion that risk is a defining factor over experiencing the fullness of the game is rediculous. Thinking about the isk you are losing...while losing a match/diminishedkdr/win loss% is redundant. This game is a competition and incorporating an economy that not only detracts from the over all ecperience but hinders it is pointless. People play to win in any other game. People play for isk here. That seems right to you guys?

This is why I think they are getting rid of the BPOs eventually. To stimulate the economy, possibly. While you might not agree with HyenaKiller and his ideas, the basis of his point is true. There is stagnation. The community is partly to blame for it. Things need to be shaken up a bit. It's like everyone is going to their assigned seats. There's no significant changing of the guard besides "elite" corporations forming and disbanding. Other than that, nothing much happens.

You cant pay to win here. And last I checked cod wasnt doing to shabby. Think about all the the options this game is going to have. Think about the timeframe in which an average player will acheive everything presented to him. Reliance on isk alone is a detriment. It is a fundimental flaw.

Average dust experience: hanging in there pubstomp after pub stomp joining corps that dont last or cant afford pc or even defend if they could basically having to compensate by specing into different fotm to pass time and spice things up.

This game (even with boosters) has a very long time line. With the fact that you cant really do all the things with suits you wait for ever to get that you cant use all the time anyways is a flawed concept.

answer to your question:

call of duty is your type of game, do not try to make dust 514 a game everyone will abandon because you don't understand why its core concepts make it unique.

go play call of duty, youl have a better time there since everything is free and everyone has access to all weapons like its nothing (it really is nothing).

if your anti-war then what the **** are you doing here?

and if youv never even played in 1 pc battle, nobody here will take you remotely seriously.

Take me seriously? Find me on the battlefeild alone and not take me seriously.

The reality of your comments are that they are not applicable. What advantage is there in having to budget your fights when your goal and core game experience is supposed to be join a corp, purchase districts, defend yours and take others but 70% of your player base simply (&barely gets by) budgetting suits?

If isk is going to basically be thee core focus I want more from it. Everyone wants more from it. Is dust really teaching me to do more, and worry more but get less and do less with my time and money?

And why would bpos of protos have to be insanely expensive? Look at how much isk pc's are. Does that solve anything? Does that increase value of it on any level? 70% of the player base wouldnt know. Costs to much. The other 30% is clearly mixed.

I want you to think about 1 thing. With all the money you can spend on this game, why is isk the deciding factor in the end.

You can yell skill all you want. You can yell risk all you want. Chant market and hyena sucks balls. But why cant I get more from my time. Why doesnt my money have more options. Does going without really contribute. Does additional vurdens and alternate focus create a better game experience than if they wetent there?

Whose prefference ate we ultimately embracing?

Im no champ but if you ask players theyll tell you im decent.

Bpos for proto gear is killing 3 birds with 1 stone. First by leveling the playing feild by taking isk out of the equation. Secondly that isk can go towards districts and corps where the true end game is. Third, do you really care if everyone has proto? Isnt that the purest expression this game offers? Shouldnt " taking a knee" be an option?

We will merge with eve eventually. What if we want ships? Is the answer really hoing to be tough s*** buy a suit?

Why not promote individual district ownership and be part of an optional collective state based on race with defence assistance. Something more for isk and aurum?

And I dont make money going proto, but I dont get stomped either.