LAVALLOIS Nash
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Posted - 2014.05.30 16:03:00 -
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CUSE TOWN333 wrote: you sound like someone who has been pub stomped one to many times alpha hot fix ain't going to change that. 
Of course I have. When i started playing this game, I expected to be outsmarted, I expected to be outgunned, and out aimed, and out outmaneuvered. I never expected to be outspent on such a scale. Outspending your opponent is common in "pay to win" games, I thought with Dusts AUR structure that there wouldn't be much of that.
You see, a key part of Dust balancing is the risk vs reward. Proto is supposed to be situational. Lemme tell you a story. Once I was in a Ambush game, and early in the game I had flanked to the other side, and a Nyain San guy, unaware of me, had got out of his tank to shoot an elusive scout. So i shot him the back and stole his Madrugar Ion cannon. i then proceeded to destroy 2 more of his tanks as he was calling them in, until I got into a running fight with a corp mate of his, and finally, he destroyed me with his 3rd called in tank.
Do the math on that one. Im told a comparably equipped Madrugar ion cannon runs at about 520,000ISK. He lost 3 and was sitting in the 4th. So in a game mode where i make 175,000ISK on average per game, he had lost 1,560,000ISK worth of tanks and was sitting in another 520,000ISK one. So in short, he was willing to spend 2 million+ ISK to win in game mode that pays at best only 10% of that.
Nevermind the differences between ADV and PRO equipment. Nevermind the people who cant win without being in a squad. Just the sheer differences in spending power make it a done deal before anyone even deploys. It would be one thing if PC had always been kicking, and mercs sometimes went to play pubs. But the opposite is true: People were locking PC to fund the pub fights in the manner I listed above.
You can blame me, call me a bad player, a complained, a noob, a pubstar, ect. But at the end of the day, the fact remains that if PC funding had been spent mostly on PC, this thread would not exist and we wouldn't be having a conversation about these changes. |
LAVALLOIS Nash
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Posted - 2014.05.30 17:38:00 -
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Roman837 wrote: It is not THEIR fault you were to LAZY to put the TIME and DEDICATION in training and forming a COMPETENT fighting force.
Why would I put together a competent fighting force? Its not like they took my districts or knocked me out of MH. Im a casual solo player looking for good games.
Roman837 wrote: You and everyone else who supports this change, just royally ****** everyones hard work and dedication.
Im not the one that created a problem that CCP is now making a solution for. The pub activities we are discussing hurt new player retention so badly that they are scrapping the game, name and platform and starting over. You cant pin this all on me. Inspite of all the problems I still play. I still turn a profit when im getting stomped. Most of the time anyway. Sometimes the red ink cant be avoided.
Roman837 wrote: All because you QQ'd that people had more isk in pubs then you. You have eliminated the competitiveness to this game. You have removed the REWARD for working together as a team. Hard work requires rewards, lazyness deserves nothing. Fail.
Competitiveness? Have you played pub Ambush before the vehicle limit? 5 Madrugar ion cannons AND they know where all the "smart deploy" spots are once they wipe out the uplinks. Not exactly what I would call competitive.
Besides, the way it is now, you win ISK for actually playing. You dont get free ISK because you won a fight for a district months ago. Youll have to find another way to finance your ADS fleet, or avoid losing them. |