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Posted - 2014.02.27 16:32:00 -
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Thor Odinson42 wrote:People like to blame it on new players, but it's not that.
It's that team play has eroded to the point where the majority of players are joining matches solo. And they aren't there to win matches. They are there to get SP and to profit on the match.
There is no incentive to win matches at all.
There needs to be a serious shakeup here. We have all these requests for all this awesome stuff, requests for more of a connection to Eve, player market, etc. But in my opinion pubs have never been worse. Ever
The tank issue is a big one I think, there is certainly no incentive to purge ISK trying to kill tanks.
For me, I want to complete the 750k SP event. That means I jump in a match whenever I have time, with or without squad support. I don't think solo play is good for either team, but bonus SP trumps the normal tactics. I've felt a bit handicapped by the heavy event because I've been saving my SP for the Caldari Heavy, and so I'm still running a Dren STD heavy when my enemies are proto everything. Normally I counter every tier or tactic with the optimal counter, but for this event, it's HMG or Forge all the time. I'm starting to think of it as a bonus challenge...though the real challenge will be fitting all my new Caldari Heavy fits in with all my Assault and Logi fits, with only 30 possible loadouts...30 fits per suit class would be nice.
There will be bullets. ACR+SMG
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Posted - 2014.02.27 16:45:00 -
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Thor Odinson42 wrote:I've made 50 threads talking about how the incentives need to be changed.
They don't want to weight the payouts too heavily on performance to protect new players. I think they'd be much better off putting in a ADV level only pub mode to curb proto stomping.
They also don't want to increase payouts because they believe we have too much ISK and need ISK sinks. The problem I have with this is that this is not the case for most mercs. Perhaps the numbers are skewed because so few have so much.
There HAS to be some carrot for players going into these matches to make them want to win matches. Not just collect SP, move closer to cap, and save ISK.
You're right, there really needs to be an easy mode for new players...though I've heard of guys that create new alts just to terrorize the academy, so I don't know how CCP could deploy an easy-mode.
There will be bullets. ACR+SMG
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