Apologies if this has been explained elsewhere (by CCP or anyone else), but I'm on a lunch break and only have a few minutes.

Regarding the lowered LP payouts per match that is now reflected in the updated dev blog, it must be noted that the prices in the store were dramatically slashed as part of the same balance pass. Therefore, this idea of a perceived "nerf" to payouts is absolutely false.

In fact, during the review I urged FoxFour to conduct based on my own research into the numbers, the overall value in terms of "amount of stuff I can buy with my end of match earnings" has actually increased slightly from the numbers in place at the time of the blog's publishing.

There is still a completely fair debate over whether you can earn enough gear at level 10 to sustain the losses incurred to get there and stay there, and this is a concern I already predicted would be a problem before this whole system launched. However, to influence CCP here we must be razor sharp in our analysis and all the crying about how CCP suddenly ****ed us because of a nerf is not going to cut it.

Like I said, you may feel that the payouts are too low - but the overall translated isk value actually increased when compared to the original blog posting.

The biggest problem as I see it, is the little difference in the LP payout between level 0 and 10. In the original chart there was a huge difference in LP payout.

I had expected to need to be at least level 5 or higher before I could get enough LP to buy specialized proto equipment.

The original setup looked better with the higher LP prices, then there would have been an incentive to try and reach level 10. The specialized weapons would have been rare allmost like officer gear. Now they have become a regular weapon with little fear of loosing it in the matches.

40k was obviously an insane number but 659? Come on now. For what? So I can purchase 2 unique guns per match at max standings while hemorrhaging isk in the process?

You gotta ask yourself at what point does this become rewarding for the player?

Apologies if this has been explained elsewhere (by CCP or anyone else), but I'm on a lunch break and only have a few minutes.

Regarding the lowered LP payouts per match that is now reflected in the updated dev blog, it must be noted that the prices in the store were dramatically slashed as part of the same balance pass. Therefore, this idea of a perceived "nerf" to payouts is absolutely false.

In fact, during the review I urged FoxFour to conduct based on my own research into the numbers, the overall value in terms of "amount of stuff I can buy with my end of match earnings" has actually increased slightly from the numbers in place at the time of the blog's publishing.

There is still a completely fair debate over whether you can earn enough gear at level 10 to sustain the losses incurred to get there and stay there, and this is a concern I already predicted would be a problem before this whole system launched. However, to influence CCP here we must be razor sharp in our analysis and all the crying about how CCP suddenly ****ed us because of a nerf is not going to cut it.

Like I said, you may feel that the payouts are too low - but the overall translated isk value actually increased when compared to the original blog posting.