Canari Elphus wrote:
So, basically, you want the game to fail then? PC represents the pinnacle of this game right now. Its competition among the best of the best. Remove it and this game becomes a simple lobby shooter and nothing more. Remove it and you lose a huge chunk of your player base.
Removing the ISK generated from locking districts will not do much to reduce the wealth. The problem isnt that people are generating ISK, its that it secures the district so that others cannot attack it at all. It allows the corp to attack others without reprisal.
Again, you want to stop a corp from generating ISK? Attack the district and try to take it from them. The majority of corps in PC do not lock their districts and they can be attacked at any time.
Right now you just sound like someone who is bitter and vindictive and wants nothing other than to punish those whom you felt wronged you. Those corps that are protesting this arent asking for reprisals against those that are doing it and they are impacted the most. If you want to change how PC works then propose something that is attractive to Dust mercs and not something that just benefits a minority.
No, I want the game to prosper in the longterm.
PC is the pinnacle of the game how? Does everyone play it? Of those that do play it, no one complains of soulcrushing lag or the exploits that people use?
It is competition among "the best of the best"? Sounds like a 1% circlejerk if you ask me. Even with PC, this game is a simple lobby shooter. Remove it and we lose a small fraction of the playerbase that we'd probably be better off without anyway.
You say "Removing the ISK generated from locking districts will not do much to reduce the wealth", that is exactly my point.
So we are to just try to take it from them when they're able to sit with their thumb up their asses and make Isk while we need to grind the isk by facing them in pubs where they faceroll everyone with proto gear that they can throw away for months while we need to scrimp every single penny we can just to have a chance at attacking them? Beyond that, once we get a player market, it will be dominated by those same thumbsitters who will jack prices to a point where no one can afford to buy anything beyond STD if that.
How is what I have already proposed multiple times in this thread not attractive to Dust mercs on the whole rather than to the small minority that is involved in PC?
You say I want the game to die, I say you want the game to die.
The reason you say I want it to die is because I want a broken mechanic that benefits a small minority removed while it is reworked and the damage it has done is reversed.
I say you want the game to die because you want the status quo to go on with a minor tweak so that you can **** the future of this game right in the ass.
I think that Dust would have a better chance at longterm survival by ignoring the minority who obviously feel they are the only ones who should be playing than it would by listening to the same minority and destroying any real chance of longterm growth.