Heinrich Jagerblitzen
D3LTA FORC3
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Posted - 2013.12.21 17:03:00 -
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Jaysyn Larrisen wrote:FW payouts are probably structured with an eye I towards the coming player market. The equation changes a bit when you can sell / trade salvage.
Probably? Probably??? Of course they're geared towards the existence of a player market. There is no question about this.
The problem is that we dont have a player market. I also have no idea when we'll get one. It's a daunting task that CCP has been overly confident about delivering time and time again all the way up to the point where they sit down and look at it and go "holy ****" and than move on to other lower hanging fruit. This is exactly why I urged them not to release the LP store without it, or at the very least, to fix the utterly broken payout scheme as a short-term holdover. They didnt, and this is exactly Cat Merc is absolutely correct in his assessment.
We can only evaluate features in the present, as they stand today. "But ________ is coming next!" should never be justification for leaving a broken system in the game that causes players to get burnt out while they wait for a feature with no guaranteed delivery date in sight. The payouts need to be increased, to allow for sustainability, even if "sustainable" means running an occasional match to get the small amount of isk needed to shop in the LP store. Occasional pub matches mixed in is more than fine, but LP should still buy mercs most of the gear they need to keep fighting in FW. Right now, this just isn't the case.
We're asked to grind 200 matches to get to a payout level that's even remotely palatable even in winning conditions, which are of course never guaranteed. Any system that asks players to invest in 200 matches but isn't giving them the resources they need to get that far without going bankrupt is broken. I stand firmly with the OP here.
CCP can always revert the temporary buffs when they do release the market, whenever that occurs, and rely on salvage and specialist items to replace that value. But I have no idea when that will occur, its not something we should count on, and so the system needs a fix regardless of future plans. |
Heinrich Jagerblitzen
D3LTA FORC3
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Posted - 2013.12.21 17:09:00 -
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Bethhy wrote:Please CCP start making new accounts and you get no ISK from developer means... and all of you try and make it in the DUST world.. Unless your a deadeye or very good with giving minimal input's with Aim assist, then the game is out of reach for a lot of people. We need to start keeping all those New accounts created every day the numbers have been the most encouraging thing though these last patches, you just need some attention on keeping them around a bit longer.
All CCP characters start as scratch noobs and are NOT given any developer isk. This is in accordance with strict limitations on disrupting the sandbox, and is enforced by the Internal Affairs department.
If you see a dev running around in proto gear, even during an event, its because he's sat down and invested the hours into this game across many months to both skill into the gear and earn the isk needed to cover his losses. |