CCP Rattati wrote:Players who are good enough to go ISK positive in full proto will probably win this event. By that logic, they also do not need big wallets, because they will not lose ISK by doing so...therefore, they will not win the event because of their big ISK wallets, if they have them, from doing PC or otherwise.
You are greatly discounting how influential isk can be in what constitutes someone's "best" suit. The best suit I can personally fit is ~300k. If I have 20mil isk on hand (because maybe I like vehicles alot but don't do it well, so don't pile up isk for a rainy day since I can get it outside vehicles) I can run this suit for awhile, but losing 1 suit causes me to go isk negative, and a 15-1 match is hardly doing poorly (and likely able to be in the running). I believe this character would fall in your definition of a "Bad" player, since
any # kills and 1 death in this suit is technically isk negative since most matches will be around or under 300k. There is an occasional match where you get 400k+, but averaged out it will fall to less than 300k.
Now assume I have 1 bilion isk. How many times can I come back in with that suit before I even consider it being an issue (the answer is more than there is time in a weekend, even playing 24/7). Therefore no matter how hard I try, I gotta go 2 games with only 1 death to stand a chance at maintaining a wallet, while the old PC farmers can literally go 16-21 in that same match and I would be behind in kills. But according to your setup, I would be the worse player.
I understand this is a hypothetical, in almost every sense (I am a logi not a slayer, I doubt an old-school PC farmer would go 15-21 but even 16-3 still proves my point, and I have no intention of even trying for these as I know my limitations), but in every sense of this "challenge", the advantages go to those with the largest wallets and not the most skilled, since overall kills matter to the detriment of smart and effective play to minimize casualties.
You can disagree with many things, but these are absolutes. It is possible that someone who only loses 1 suit a match will win, but more than likely that will only be the sniper. Either you have very cheap "full proto" fits, or you have never ran a suit as expensive as I can run. I don't, because I'm not an idiot who thinks he can only lose 1 suit every 2-3 matches, but I do break it out when I got isk to burn. Which is exactly what PC farmers have in abundance. To win this you will need a mountain of isk to keep your best suit on the field, regardless of difficulty and cost.