Kevall Longstride
DUST University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2014.04.08 10:47:00 -
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Old style corp contracts need to return ASAP. So corps not in PC can practice in large man squads as much as anything, plus those old corp contracts were less stress to arrange. I would however allow a filter option for the corp that sets up a contract to limit the meta level of gear used in the match. It can also be used to practice team deploy in a safe way.
I agree with Soyraya that ambush doesn't need team deploy although I think squads should stay.
As to incentives. There's too much ISK swimming around as it is so simply increasing the payouts for pub matches is a bad idea and lacking in imagination frankly. With a player based contract or even open market hopefully arriving at Fanfest or shortly after, I'd prefer a switch to a fixed ISK payment to each Merc from the NPC corps but with a higher level of salvage. However, the salvage should be based purely on what it was YOU destroyed in the battle.
So if your using Proto gear in Pub Matches, gleefully wiping out newbs in militia or standard to pad out your irrelevant KDR and inflate your ego (we all know who you are..lol), then standard salvage is all you get, with its low resale valve.
Taking down Proto in cheap suits then becomes a very profitable way to play the game. Anything that pushes the concept of being an ISK efficient and profitable Merc is to be encouraged at all times.
NPC corps should also have a tax rate of 15% to remove more ISK from the economy and encourage the joining of player corps with a lower tax.
As to the corp tax, I was one of the loudest voices for its introduction and now I want to lead the charge for corps to spend that revenue in new ways other than simply being able to give ISK to players.
I would like the ISK to able to spent on the renting of corp specific Merc Quarters, uniforms and gear. I'd like to purchase medals for outstanding Mercs or passing a basic competence level. Titles, visible to all are another why to encourage participation in the game as well.
Ideas like this already exist in the New Eden Universe already in Eve Online all that is needed in a lot of cases is a UI to do it all.
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