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Card Drunook
DoC Deck of Contractors
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Posted - 2014.04.16 10:34:00 -
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I've been playing FW this week, partly to build up LP but also because I like the way it normally plays much more than regular matches. While playing I watched something happen that you really should consider:
The matchmaking placed us against a clearly queue synced team, which we had already played against the previous match. After a few minutes of our single coordinated squad trying to fight off thier entire coordinated team we were redlined. This is were things started to illustrate what to me seems to be a basic flaw with DUST 514 at the moment. One of the players on the other team who is a prominent member of the Planetary Conquest community began to drive and even run into our redline while in a Prototype Sentinel suit using a Prototype HMG to kill us, even if it meant he would die to the redline timer. This player was willing to take a completely avoidable over 100k ISK loss per life, just to get a kill or two before dying. And this player did this for the rest of the round. I personally watched him die at least 6 times, I believe he died in total somewhere around 10-15 times.
As part of the DUST community that regularly hears the words "I'm switching to cheap suits" this clearly seems to me to be someone who is not playing anything resembling the game I am. The game that I play is balanced around what you can afford to use versus what you want to use. I've seen other people from the PC community doing things like this before, this is just such a (to me) blatant example that I thought it should be shared.
In addition, I want to share that that match made me profoundly angry, something I normally have an easy time keeping under control. I've been playing this game a long time now (almost 2 years at this point) and I've only recently started to get truly frustrated. That match got me thinking about things that I may in the near future give a much longer post about. In the meantime I'll ask you (CCP) to think about this. I'd also be happy to have an actual conversation with you, but I'm aware of how hard it is to get right people, at the right time to engage in that sort of discussion even if your were interested in having one so I don't really expect one.
I wish there was somewhere other than General Discussion to post this, I'm pretty much going to ignore the comments I expect to see below. |
Kasote Denzara
A Vulture
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Posted - 2014.04.16 10:38:00 -
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This is not a comment you expected.
You did not ignore.
This is a signature. You have been enlightened.
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Vrain Matari
Mikramurka Shock Troop
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2014.04.16 13:43:00 -
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It's a good point, Card. I feel your pain, i solo a lot and last night i had one of those nights where i spent the evening at the top of the losing side leaderboards getting my face kicked in by protosquads.
I'd love to see some input from CCP here, giving us some idea of what they're shooting for in terms of ISK balance. Or ISK imbalance, which would be fair enough, imo, so long as other mechanics ensured quality pub matches.
It's gotta happen, we all know pubs are where we get our new players from.
I support SP rollover.
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knight of 6
Sver true blood
General Tso's Alliance
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Posted - 2014.04.16 14:24:00 -
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that's valid.
there is a problem with the game in that isk is too easy to come by for veteran players. honestly I don't know how to fix that in the long run. if you are playing the game well you will make a profit win or lose thus you will bank a little isk saving it for a rainy day, and when that rainy day never comes you're sitting on 76 million isk wondering why you shouldn't just run straight proto. then you run straight proto just for the lulz and rage. you've got the money to pay for it so it's funny and fun for you, why should you care how it makes you're enemies feel?
"I speak for the trees!"
Ko6 scout,
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