Why does CCP keep selling Omega Boosters during triple SP events?

To make money. Just because DUST is F2P doesn't mean CCP is NPF (not-for-profit).

All things considered, the only thing worth spending aurum on is boosters (with the occational event suit) and ccp has to make its money somewhere. May as well make it off of the smart players among us.

The issue is the squads, not the proto. They could probably still stomp you in militia gear. Often the problem is pitting these organized squads against random solo players.

Proto gear is a red herring.

Patience is underrated.

Boosters are overrated.

Why does CCP sell an item that makes a lot of profit without giving players a real benefit over the competition? Because it makes a lot of profit. Why don't they sell it all the time? Because limiting availability skews the supply and demand lines in favour of the supplier, meaning CCP can get away with keeping the price high and still make a lot of sales.

Does it make the game pay-to-win? Nope. Have I ever bought a booster? Well, I got one with a merc pack back in closed beta. It's still sitting in the space between characters. I'll probably sell it on the player market or something.

Why does CCP keep selling Omega Boosters during triple SP events?

I think Garrett makes a very strong point. Building on top of the fact that, once a player hits 12M - 15M SP, they're mostly working on new specializations (ie, they can do at least one thing rather well, at this point), I think I might stop purchasing passive boosters. At this point, it really does just boil down to patience for me.

it's good business?

why do little kids only make lemonade stands on hot days?

It's not "pay to win".

It's "pay to forever and always be ahead of everyone else that doesn't want to spend money while we leave the non-rollover SP system untouched to rake in as much profit as possible".

I never said it didn't.

You show me your standard gear squad vs someones proto squad. Let me see how that goes, equal player skill assumed.

dust and eve ae inheritly pay to win, you just dont field 16 players all in free grear and expect to beat a fully protoed out team thats just not how it works, if u want to win you have to put in the time and effrort to aquire the necessary gear and skill level . youeither pay in time, isk, or bodies.

Well no sh!t they'll do better.

Better gear will help you win a tie on an equal skill level.

Everyone whines about Proto Gear. "Lets change the game modes to limit gear to ADV or STD"

Okay, then everyone will start whining about those "High SP squads".

You guys never stop whining. SP is the problem here, not gear.

CCP needs to implement a scaled cap, based on the total SP required to max out skills.

People on the low end of the spectrum get a higher cap, while people on the high end get lower caps.

I'm assuming equal skill here.

An equal skill squad of standard or mlt gear will not triumph over an equal skill squad of proto gear. Is that a problem? Not necessarily, by itself, no. But once you consider that there is NOWHERE for new players to escape to, or for Vets to go off and perform end game content (lolpc) then it does indeed become a problem, and it basically FORCES newer players to either get **** ****** for months, or pay out the ass to get to a point where they aren't at such a statistical disadvantage.

Add in the fact that CCP has done nothing about Biomass ISK farms or PC ISK fountains, and you create a very solid, very real divide in the community between people who can't afford to run proto, and people who can't NOT afford to run proto.