Charlotte O'Dell
Sooper Speshul Ponee Fors
Dropsuit Samurai
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Posted - 2014.04.22 07:33:00 -
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A very good question, so I will give you a good answer.
Skill > SP
Start a new character, take it through the academy and see how you do compared to your main. Chances are if you were a **** player on your main, meaning you didn't do well running anything less than proto gear you will do very bad on your new alt, but if you are a good player, getting 25/0 in proto and maybe 10/3 in standard, you will do much better out of the academy.
One can say that a new character cannot compete with a 1500 HP sentinel, but is that because he only has 450 HP or is it because he is charging it head on? Now, sure, he cannot take out an Assault gk0 with a G-1 Frontline suit in a head on fight, but that is just a numbers game. There is nothing stopping him from grabbing a shotgun and OHKing anything short of a well fit assault or better.
Yes, the NPE sucks and 50,000,000 SP guys are stomping 500,000 SP guys, but it has less to do with SP and ISK than it has to do with new players not getting the chance to learn the skills required to survive. A lot of people forget that most of the guys with 30,000,000+ SP started playing in January, when there was no proto. We all had time to learn the game and the protostomp only happened when you had the odd SVER True Blood tank stomp or Pink Fluffy / Imperfects against you. We had time to learn; I chose Caldari HAVs and by the time I had a Gunlogi, everyone else was running Advanced Dropsuits; when I had a 80GJ Compressed Particle Cannon on my Sagaris, everyone was running prototype gear, too. We all learned at the same rate. Then you throw hardened gladiators who had 100,000,000 ISK from the asset refund in with newberries who do not get a High-Sec to learn in and it should come to no surprise that MAYBE 1 in 25 newberries I meet stick around; but they stick around for the social aspect- not the gameplay.
The Academy was a good step, but it is not enough. There needs to be a very strict matchmaking system:
Mode 1: Militia and standard dropsuits and weapons, only. Militia vehicles and standard turrets, only. 2 vehicles/battle. All equipment allowed. All modules allowed.
Rewards are <200,000 ISK / battle
Mode 2: Same as right now (only vehicles limits)
Rewards are 200,000 - 1,350,000 / battle
Charlotte O'Dell is the highest level unicorn!
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