*sigh* I really am tired of saying this put listen slapnuts...I but down uplinks before I was sniping and got too many kill assists. Ended up with around 700 wp.

I didn't join late. I just got a lot of kill assists. And 3 kills. I got 500 and some odd wp. I was in top 10

Truthfully your team sucked. Question, what do you expect to have been paid for a poor performance? I'm not getting on you but I'm just weighing in on the situation. You got 3 kills and some odd WP...and you were in the top ten. So that means your team wasn't on the field destroying like they should. The more goods destroyed, the better the pay.

I would have paid you 37K too. A contractor doesn't pay you high for low quality work.

As stated above you most likely came in late, also you probably only had a small share of the points which the team scored.

On to my next point. It is quite annoying seeing people that do not understand the payout system what so ever saying that it needs to be changed. The payout is created by the ISK destroyed in battle. Everyone in the game has the choice to raise payouts by spending more and destroying more. If you do not believe me then get a squad of 6 guys to Q sync against your squad and fight each other in full proto. What you will find is a significantly increased payout as long as you have a good share of the WP on both sides.

Here is a link to one of the few times CCP was clear about a mechanic which explains the payouts very well.

It is the useless ranting by forum warriors who have no idea the mechanics they are talking about which only feeds CCP's propensity for ****** changes. You are only making yourself look bad by whining about a situation which you have obviously not taken more than a moment to think about.

So, with ONLY 3 kills, some assists and a couple uplinks (which may or may not have been destroyed before earning you a single point - people have to actually spawn off them to benefit you after all), do you honestly think you deserve the same payout as someone who gets 20+ kills while pushing, capturing, and defending objectives? Or the Logi who's in the thick of the battle repping and re-supplying his team?

No, you don't. Risk vs. Reward. You didn't put yourself at risk, you did very little to actually help your team, and therefore you didn't earn as much as those who did.

If you want to sit safely up on your little hill, far away from the action, and snipe, then I'm sorry, you don't get to earn very much reward for that.

Working as intended.

The only time I don't run proto is when I can't afford it, which is around 200k per fit. I'm usually on the crap team of random newberries vs the organized team of protos. In a matchI usually get 10-20 kills which are likely ~200k fits as well and a couple of vehicles kills which have been more ADS' recently so that's around 300k+ a ship. When I am on the crap team I usually get most of the WP's being close to 2k a lot while the other top 5 haven't broke 1k and the rest are lucky to have more than 500 WP's; I'll usually get between 250k and 350k. Now if I don't die it's pure profit but usually I can die anywhere between 1-5 times and in the really bad games 10+ times. I know how the payout system works and it isn't impacted by "how much ISK you destroy" as much as you think it is.

It's mostly your share of the team's total WP's that determines how much you get. I know this because back when Scotty often didn't completely fill a match before starting it; I got put in a couple of matches where it was 1-2 on my team vs 12+ guys. Didn't destroy a thing and only hacked one or two installations before retreating to the redline; I ended up getting over 1 mil for those matches because it was just me on the team or the other guys just AFK'd in the MCC.

Adding a small modifier to the base payout isn't going to fck things up.

Really. You think your mad. Here is the perfect example of BS. I went 42-5 over 4K WP came in second place and only made 300K+ while a tanker who cam in 4th made nearly 500K I have talked to other tankers and they always seem to make more than infantry. You get more kills, WP, and contribute more and you get a lower ISK payout because your infantry.

Want proof run a militia tank and compare it to your normal ISK payout and tell me there is not a pay difference.

In general isk payouts are bad in pub matches and vary so much I am not even sure how it is calculated.

I have been in battles where I have only got a modest kill / wp score and I clear 200k easily. Other battles I will get a really great amount of kills, WP, destroy expensive tanks, the odd proto suit and still somehow only come out with like 160-170k......