Borne Velvalor
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Posted - 2013.12.15 09:02:00 -
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Ambush, 380k ISK a good match, no losses.
FW State of Eternal Losses, 20k ISK in LP in a "good" match - 270k ISK in one HAV to pop 5 Somas and Sicas = -250k ISK.
How can I choose between +380k and -250k ISK? I just can't!
All joking aside, FW is an ISK sink with no reward. Pubs pay out, what, at least 4 times more if you win 50% of the time at FW at a low level. At a higher level, you're ALMOST getting pubs payouts, but almost nothing if you lose, whereas pubs always pay you a fair amount. The only benefit I see is getting prototype gear at advanced level at a higher price, or a specialist weapon to optimize one of your suits to stop an extra bullet or something.
Many suits I've worn, many burdens I've borne, for the oaths I've sworn.
Panda.
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Borne Velvalor
Endless Hatred
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Posted - 2013.12.15 19:28:00 -
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Nazz'Dragg wrote:Borne Velvalor wrote:Ambush, 380k ISK a good match, no losses.
FW State of Eternal Losses, 20k ISK in LP in a "good" match - 270k ISK in one HAV to pop 5 Somas and Sicas = -250k ISK.
How can I choose between +380k and -250k ISK? I just can't!
All joking aside, FW is an ISK sink with no reward. Pubs pay out, what, at least 4 times more if you win 50% of the time at FW at a low level. At a higher level, you're ALMOST getting pubs payouts, but almost nothing if you lose, whereas pubs always pay you a fair amount. The only benefit I see is getting prototype gear at advanced level at a higher price, or a specialist weapon to optimize one of your suits to stop an extra bullet or something. Why not try the following
- Do public contract matches to grind isk
- Use the isk you required to fund faction warfare matches
- The use the LP gained from faction warfare matches to fund your planetary conquest matches.
Then start all over again.
Because I can take the ISK from the public contracts and use it in the PC matches and actually end up with more money and gear at the end of the day, without spending hours grinding FW? Most LP gear is equivalent to ISK and you can buy such gear faster by grinding ISK in pubs than LP in FW. If you want to field a proto suit for PC that you can't use or want a specialist gun to upgrade something else on your suit, then it can be worth it. If you already have the SP to field the gear, it's not.
Now, if it were worth fielding LP gear when you can already buy ISK gear, then there'd be little incentive for many suits to spend several million SP on them beyond advanced because you could grind proto gear as quickly in FW and not require the SP to use it. It's hard to balance.
Many suits I've worn, many burdens I've borne, for the oaths I've sworn.
Panda.
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