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lee corwood
Knights Of Ender
Public Disorder.
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Posted - 2014.01.14 21:57:00 -
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Clone D wrote:Skihids wrote:The journey is a good deal of the experience, and skipping it to reach the "destination" robs the game of a good deal of what it has to offer.
I like your philosophical stance. I have extrapolated many lessons from the game concerning moral behavior, online sociology, battle tactics when the odds are against you, and how easily soldiers of the future become fatigued. I reached a point when the game began to feel like work and the rewards weren't frequent enough. I am ready to fast forward through all of the repetition and get to the goods. The game is not refreshingly novel enough for me to spend years capping out every week, but it is cool enough to wait 1.5 years and come back. In the end, it is just a game. Why should I be throttled back just because I do not choose to make it a lifestyle?
I'm not hating, but from reading several of your posts, I honestly don't think the game is for you.
If it isn't fun for you now, I don't think it will be fun for you down the road when you have 'better' gear. I've seen lots of players with skills I will never have, that dominate this game in militia gear. I will never be that person. I'm a below average player but I'm having fun with the people I am playing with.
I also have a job that takes a good portion of my day. I still have time to hit the gym, cook my meals, spend time with my family and play dust. I don't cap weekly (I have a few times on accident) and honestly I don't care to, I'm just playing to have fun (some days that is easier than others). From your posts and your very mature responses however, I get the feeling you're wanting to fast forward some of this because you want to reach a finality to the game and move on. The way this game is building, I don't think there will ever be a finality. I think it was intended to always be expanding and ever improving and thus not leading to a 'I beat the game' state that I think you might be subconsciously searching for.
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lee corwood
Knights Of Ender
Public Disorder.
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Posted - 2014.01.14 22:01:00 -
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Also, I will be the first to advocate that newer players are getting the worst experience of their lives joining into this game in the state they are in. However, I don't think more SP is the answer to that. I think tiered matching, improved academy and a truly balanced system with better ttk is the answer to that. Giving someone more advancement to better gear they are still not good at using because they don't have the experience under their belts yet will not make them better at the game. I think that's the fast track to more players getting 1-5 ADV suits, losing them immediately and being forced to use starter kits again because they ran out of all their isk. We already have that trend today. It will be even worse with more expensive gear on the field.
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lee corwood
Knights Of Ender
Public Disorder.
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Posted - 2014.01.15 12:46:00 -
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Again, not yelling at you or calling you names, just having a mature disagreement.
I don't think they bring the advantages you think. Running proto gear is its own risk losing an obscene amount of isk for a single loss. If I even lose one proto suit, I didn't make any money that game. I don't think that is strictly gear driven. I think its mostly experience driven understanding proper flanking and having memorized maps (because let's face it, we have like...4) and great squad work. I've seen better teamwork take down protos faster than I could blink.
And yes, I've also had those situations where I shot a whole clip into someone's back to have them turn around and flick me off them like a sand gnat. It's not fun, but better gear isn't going to help me here either. The state of the game is horribly unbalanced. Ttk needs an adjustment as its simply too low to be competitive in any way. In my ADV logi suit, I can be one shotted to the body by a charged scrambler rifle. There are days I want to throw the controller too.
However, I also see no problems with someone who can invest the time to be better at a game than I can be. In my personal opinion, time invest > money investment. I understand the game is free, but I don't expect my name to be at the top of the leaderboards because of money when someone is investing their real life time into the game. My time is valuable. I only have one life to live and its not going to be with me in front of my ps3 40 hours a week. We also have to understand that a lot of the current player base is a much younger generation as well. They don't have jobs. They come home, log in and play until the wee hours in the morning. I know I did when I was younger.
So if I value my time so highly, I can't say I can value their time any less. I've been around this game for a while now, have 13 mil sp myself. I could have much, much more if I were a better player but I'm just not and I'm not mad about it. Given the cycles this game has been through, big kudos to those that stuck around because this is the best state this game has ever been in and that's really saying a lot.
TL;DR: I don't think the issue is the SP gap, I think the issue is ttk, game balancing and a horrible new player experience.
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lee corwood
Knights Of Ender
Public Disorder.
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Posted - 2014.01.16 16:22:00 -
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Stephen Seneca wrote: Im not sure how much they cost, Im assuming above the 100,000 isk mark. Lets just say 100k for this point.
My proto suit is 200k, but then again I'm also carrying way more equipment than most people as a logi, but still. I know some great smart builds that can be made placing proto modules on ADV suits, but using a proto suit to carry cheap crappy modules is a huge waste of money, which is usually why most proto suits cost people up in the 130k+. You should always skill your mods ahead of your suit. Otherwise, you'll be in a isk black hole with no better performance to show for it.
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lee corwood
Knights Of Ender
Public Disorder.
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Posted - 2014.01.18 19:22:00 -
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Clone D wrote:
You make the world an unpleasant place. Please change.
This is now one of my favorite quotes 
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