I dont think anyone has a problem with players getting rich the right way by conserving and creating smart fittings, but when people are locking districts to farm more ISK than they could ever spend, it gets ridiculous.

Nyain San currently holds 61 districts, lets do some quick mental math here - 80 clones a day per district, 80 clones sell for 8.8M ISK, if all districts remain uncontested for one day that's 61 x 8.8M = 536,800,000 ISK for one days income. now do that for a few months and tell me your worried about losing your 5 or 10 proto suits in a match.

And though the fault is on CCP's hands for ever allowing this situation to take place in the first place, we are now left with a small fraction of the players in the game making so much money that they can just pay the top players to ring for them and make it nearly impossible to compete in any real way.

Even if they fix the way ISK made in the game, I still think it would take quite some time for the economy to balance back out of favor of those who have already pocketed their billions during this phase. I suppose I can only hope.

I love how people cry that respecs damage the game when at will respecs would cause less damage than the PC mess has been causing for months now

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While I do not endorse "at will respecs", I do agree with your assertion.

I am pretty sure lots of the forum posters cried that the clone packs were too expensive and I think CCP changed the price. I will have to check on that but if so then you can't blame CCP for the mess nearly as much.

While I do not endorse "at will respecs", I do agree with your assertion.

Clone packs are still too expensive.

That is if you want to see PC active. It is VERY difficult to beat even an evenly matched team with a clone pack. It's also a reason why you won't see a massive attack on Renegade Alliance. It's too expensive.

Timers are the problem in PC, they allow for too much coordination before battles. 24-48 hours is too much time. The number of players actively participating in PC is very small. The number of players that determine victories is much smaller. The timers allow for these players to be called in for battles deemed important enough to hire ringers. It is MUCH cheaper to hire ringers than to capture a district using clone packs.

What is alarming is that the overall skill level in Dust is very, very low at the moment and it's only getting worse. Battles are filled with solo players making up at least 50% of each team. In the summer I thought we'd see a spike in activity in PC by this time because more and more players would have enough SP to specialize a role in full proto, but that hasn't been the case.

Some of the top corps fight in multiple PC battles everyday and they sync into FW battles together to continue honing their skills as a team. It's no accident that they are more rich and more skilled at the game.

Im not sure that its much cheaper to hire ringers, there are full teams are up into the several hundreds of millions to ring in one battle.
But I think a large part in them being ''more skilled'' as a group then most corps is because theyr able to approach all the top players from other corps and offer them pay checks to leave and join their corp that none of the little guys could ever compete with.
I'd have lost my top players as well to offers of 50+M a week just to play games in other corps, if not for us building a corp based around loyal players and people who have played together since they started, rather than going after who ever is richest at the time.

I feel like those are two totally different subjects that do not effect each other in any way. I want fixed PC, and no at will respects, but because PC is messed up I wouldn't then just say screw it let people have respecs as well. One screw up is enough for me :)

I was playing some games the other night and half the people I was playing with we're filthy rich going full proto every round well the other half could barly run basic?!

Did something go wrong along the way or is this how CCP planed it?!

Billionaires Vs. The Poor

a few million made from never running proto is nothing compared to owning most of pc area and making billions a day. and running proto all day long at the same time.

I was playing some games the other night and half the people I was playing with we're filthy rich going full proto every round well the other half could barly run basic?!

Did something go wrong along the way or is this how CCP planed it?!

Billionaires Vs. The Poor

Poor stay poor either by choice (giving money away mostly) or because they don't know how to manage their wallet
Rich stay rich because they don't give their money away and know how to manage their wallet

The fact that CCP hasn't halted all PC income and locked all districts until the problem is fixed is just another sign of how few fluxes they give.

@ The angry mob ready to witchhunt PC players

Is the general anger here because PC Corporations are able to PubStomp in full Proto Gear, and because you run pubs, you're unable to afford Proto 24/7?

Guess its a really hard question