DUST Search - [Feedback] A glaring issue

Yun Hee Ryeon wrote:

This seems like a false choice. A balance must be struck. The game needs a lot of work and a lot of love; the good news is that it seems to be getting them, if not necessarily as fast as we'd like.

I paid my dues when I first joined, in blood. I was a couple thousand kills in before my K/Dr started evening out. CCP has claimed to have been working on public match matchmaking for the longest time, and I believe them.

I also believe that it's not an easy problem. It's popular to throw mud at CCP, but they're not stupid people.

Now, one of the interesting bits of FW is that it's an area where the matchmaking's hardly there at all. You get quite the assortment. Some more rewards for taking the plunge would be nice, but ... well, I guess we'll see how the LP store ends up working. In the meantime, I suppose I'm willing to just deal with the system as it exists-- that is, field what my budget allows, and start doing damage control when damage control is called for.

We're playing mercs, here. If the system's not making you fight with one eye on your wallet, it seems like it's not doing its job.


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John Demonsbane Unorganized Ninja Infantry Tactics League of Infamy 512	Posted - 2013.11.30 05:32:00 - [1] - Quote Yun Hee Ryeon wrote: This seems like a false choice. A balance must be struck. The game needs a lot of work and a lot of love; the good news is that it seems to be getting them, if not necessarily as fast as we'd like. I paid my dues when I first joined, in blood. I was a couple thousand kills in before my K/Dr started evening out. CCP has claimed to have been working on public match matchmaking for the longest time, and I believe them. I also believe that it's not an easy problem. It's popular to throw mud at CCP, but they're not stupid people. Now, one of the interesting bits of FW is that it's an area where the matchmaking's hardly there at all. You get quite the assortment. Some more rewards for taking the plunge would be nice, but ... well, I guess we'll see how the LP store ends up working. In the meantime, I suppose I'm willing to just deal with the system as it exists-- that is, field what my budget allows, and start doing damage control when damage control is called for. We're playing mercs, here. If the system's not making you fight with one eye on your wallet, it seems like it's not doing its job. I think you are missing the point. Aeon isn't exactly the scrappy underdog here, he can afford to run this stuff so he does. The point is that people who have PC money can run it all the time too, and that's unbalancing the market. It creates a one sided arms race in which the non-PC corp members can never win because they simply can't keep up. It is, as you said, "not doing it's job." The whole point of the ISK rewards is to make you think twice about what you run just like you say. That fully applies to me and I follow the often-quoted EvE maxim that you shouldn't fly what you can't afford to lose. PC corp members do not have to follow that rule because they effectively have no limit to what they can spend, which kills the risk/reward aspect for the majority (who don't do PC) who can't get ahead because they always have to run gear they can't afford. Cue vicious cycle where they consequently can't make a push into PC because they can't build up a big enough war chest to fund it. "The line between disorder and order lies in logistics" -Sun Tzu Amarr victor!
John Demonsbane Unorganized Ninja Infantry Tactics League of Infamy 519	Posted - 2013.11.30 11:42:00 - [2] - Quote Lol, better uplinks would just get your blueberries killed faster. Whether the "best" solution is to open up PC to more people (if that's the case I'd argue for some sort of highsec area that operates similar to PFC where smallish corps can duke it out without worrying that Nyain San or 0.H is going to decide one day they want to have a little fun by "making it burn" and wipe everybody out) or to readjust the market is a tough call. Either way though, the economy is definitely broken, and its a far more fundamental problem than BPOs (overblown effects) "The line between disorder and order lies in logistics" -Sun Tzu Amarr victor!