Just Shut UP!!!!

I still say they're fine.

I've been losing 500k + to suicide dropships since the dawn of DUST, welcome to the big leagues, I say.

It just keeps going... in hindsight, I recently came across a tanker who shot my LAV (While I was chasing another LAV around, trying to get my gunner to blow him up and generally just screwing around not being useful because fun) I respawned after getting blown up and immediately called in another LAV. He blew that up too before I could get everything on it and prepare it for the suicide run. I called in another one, tried again, failed due to hardeners on his shield tank. Repeated the process, but he got smart. Instead of risking getting his tank blown up, he simply got out, recalled it, and went on foot. We ran into each other a few more times, I knifed him once, he shot me a few times, I did the same, but I never did get to blow up his tank (though I probably cost him quite a bit of Isk from those proto suits he was running)

Moral of the story. If someone is determined to kill your tank with a suicide car, simply recall it and leave them to drive around. Not every single player is willing to throw away Isk for a chance to kill what could just be a cheap militia tank.

Also, you never did answer my last post about the Isk not mattering.

Your argument is "Because I get rammed, so should you.". What kind of drugs are you on? Ramming is universally bullshit.

But it doesn't. Unless you're determined to always run proto suits. If we weren't able to use cheaper fits, it might. If we weren't able to use blueprints, it might. It can't matter as is, because the player market doesn't exist. There's no rise and fall in stocks. You play a game, you get Isk. It doesn't matter if you win or lose, you get it. You can do nothing at all aside from equipment spam the entire game and get Isk. You can redline snipe and get Isk. Heck, Isk is more dependent on what the other team is using than what YOU do. If things eventually get fixed with PC and we get a player market, perhaps Isk will matter, but it doesn't right now. A player can do well with a militia, basic, or advanced suit, just the same as they can with proto gear, especially if they're in a competent squad. The same thing can be said of tanks. I can buy three or four militia tanks right now and do very well for that meager investment and even manage to make it all back in one game.

And no, I don't have 200 million Isk, so I'm not saying all this just because I've got plenty to spend.


P.S. Biomassing clones. I rest my case.

But it doesn't. Unless you're determined to always run proto suits. If we weren't able to use cheaper fits, it might. If we weren't able to use blueprints, it might. It can't matter as is, because the player market doesn't exist. There's no rise and fall in stocks. You play a game, you get Isk. It doesn't matter if you win or lose, you get it. You can do nothing at all aside from equipment spam the entire game and get Isk. You can redline snipe and get Isk. Heck, Isk is more dependent on what the other team is using than what YOU do. If things eventually get fixed with PC and we get a player market, perhaps Isk will matter, but it doesn't right now. A player can do well with a militia, basic, or advanced suit, just the same as they can with proto gear, especially if they're in a competent squad. The same thing can be said of tanks. I can buy three or four militia tanks right now and do very well for that meager investment and even manage to make it all back in one game.

And no, I don't have 200 million Isk, so I'm not saying all this just because I've got plenty to spend.


P.S. Biomassing clones. I rest my case.

No, it just pushes you to increase your awareness and communication with your squad.

There are plenty of BPO LAV's.

Technically impossible to run a full proto madruger. Aren't those classified as standard vehicles? Advanced perhaps.

I don't need to buy things if I'm running starter fits, and I get enough Isk from every game I play to fund my scout suits. It's not like I have to do something special to get Isk. Anything I do gets me Isk, even if it's camping in the redline sniping the whole game. True, I'll get more by being on the field supporting my team, but if I lose a bunch of suits in the process, what profit is there? It's just a revolving cycle. Why do you get into battles? To earn Isk and SP. Why do you want to earn Isk and SP? So I can buy more gear to earn more Isk and SP. If there were more things to spend your Isk on that mattered and less exploits, it would be different, but there's not. It's just play a game, get Isk, use that Isk to restock whatever fittings were lost in that game, then continue. Rinse and repeat.


I wouldn't help fund a tanker, even to prove a point. I see enough tanks on the battlefield as is and I spend way too much time trying to get rid of them, the last thing I want is to encourage more tank spam.

Just because you yourself don't take advantage of exploits doesn't mean other people don't. Why do you think CCP is taking so long to implement a player market? They don't have a clue how to work around things like BPO's and PC exploits in order to make an actual market work. Until exploits (And BPO's) are gone from the game, a fair player market couldn't exist.