Funkmaster Whale
Ancient Exiles.
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Posted - 2014.04.06 17:44:00 -
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PC needs to be entirely re-envisioned, not just suffer arbitrary fumbling with numbers like clone counts and ISK. The fact is PC is boring as hell and far too large an investment for people with lives outside of DUST.
What does this in turn promote? Well, exactly what we have right now. Massive blue donuts and conglomeration of all competent PC-worthy players into these megacorps.
It only makes sense, though. You can't possibly hope to own any territory as a corp unless you have at least 20-30+ competent players who are online A LOT and are willing to play at any given time. The circumstances revolving around deploying attacks/defending districts require a strict schedule of being online at certain times to take part in battles. If you happen to have a job or what have you and can't make it to that battle, your corp loses its territory and you're now stuck in Clone Pack land. There's no room for little guys in this game, and so you get blue donuts.
It's not like EVE where even if you're just a handful of guys you can go logon whenever and wreak some havoc in nullsec and still profit. No, in this game, you need 16 GOOD players at a SPECIFIC time on a CERTAIN day, and sometimes consecutively . It's not feasible nor rewarding for the majority of players whatsoever. Increasing clone counts and reducing profits doesn't give incentive for the new guys.
PC is this: repetitive, laggy Skirmishes on pre-determined maps at pre-determined times vying for colored squares on a starmap that will ultimately function as ISK drills for your corp. There's no sense of consistency to it at all. No reward beyond ISK which can be easily made in other ventures. Nothing PC provides really shines and gives people that hope of "Yeah! I really need to train to get into PC so I can reap these rewards!" Dealing in petty politics and the frustration of getting people online to defend districts is not worth getting grey hairs over.
Like I said, PC needs to be re-envisioned to be made fun, not just have some numbers tweaked and declare "fixed!".
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Funkmaster Whale
Ancient Exiles.
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Posted - 2014.04.06 17:55:00 -
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Fiddlestaxp wrote:Traky78 wrote:Can confirm Kain hasn't any advantages !
Seriously, he goes 0/5 in our last CB
In a serious note, your ideas for PC are good but i think 80 millions is too much. I know its nothing for the old corps engaged in PC, but too much for new corps. I disagree. 80 Million is a perfectly reasonable amount for a 200 clone pack. Lots of 1 man corps waste 36 million nearly every day on clone packs.
Can you name a few?
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