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Snipers killing me aren't what I'm mad about. I'm mad about people not wanting to participate in matches. I don't know you, you can hate me. Just as you've admitting sniping isn't good for anything but making matches boring.

unfortunately this is one of our main problems.

your choices are limited i'm affraid they are:
go red line sniping. which does increase the problem
run free suits, if your already being killed to that extent it won't matter about using worse gear. (unless you care about kdr)
or leave battle and try to find a better match.

And here is the honesty.

What the others have failed to admit is, "I want to play solo and when I do I get stomped, so I end up sniping". This statement is not going to capture every person for sure, I've known some great snipers. But let's not ignore the issue, Dust has too many solo players. When solo players face squads and they aren't phenomenal, exceptional, far from the norm, spectacular, not the people sure to respond here that go 68-0 every match in militia sniper setups, they quit very early in the match if they ever really begin.

You can call it matchmaking, but there are a LOT of 20+ SP solo players that check who they are up against and resort to passive redline sniping. We can debate whether or not they are just playing an FPS game to check out the scenery of if perhaps better payouts or some some other incentives might improve the experience for people that turn on FPS games to participate in something other than World of Sniping.

I would rather them give back free LAVs and make them capable of murder taxi of old. Something to shoot at would be nice. Something for the pacifist blueberries who are opposed to using guns can do that might at least accidentally every now and then almost annoy the enemy team for a few milliseconds.

The entire reason that squad and group play is emphasized by the majority of veteran players is that it allows us to win battles and make profits. Even if your not a killer you end up making more profits when running with a group since you generally earn more wp supporting a squad and wp are tied to payouts.

Perhaps CCP needs to incentivize winning and being active over just being passive and/or loosing. Currently the ISK payout is dependent on the % of wp you earned for your team in addition to a base payout. I think this emphasis on WP for payouts really needs to be emphasized to stop pansies like LAVALLOIS Nash from hiding in the redline and continuing to call themselves successful let alone active participants.

To add some extra oomph to the whole hiding prevention issue the payouts should be switched from the current 60/40 payouts for winning vs loosing teams to 75/25. You want to hide and preserve your suit? Don't want to even try to win a battle.? You think by making what amounts to passive isk means your a great player? Fine, you should be rewarded in accordance with your contribution to making the battle fun for everyone, which means poorly.

You gave me wood with this proposal.

You seem like a dude who just likes to argue.

If you are as good as you insinuate then you'd be making more, not less.

You'll notice I'm discussing proper dueling proceedure since I am more than confident that an ignoramus like yourself will have no understanding of the honorable art of single combat.

A long time ago I called upon CCP to base WP rewards on metalevel differences; higher rewards would be given to people who kill mercs with a higher total meta level and fewer points would be given to people who use lower meta level gear. While this system is not and never will be put into place there is a small similarity in the current form of the game. Players who run high level gear have much higher potential losses. If I run in my proto logi I am looking at almost 200k isk for loosing the suit. A starter fit on the other hand is free. A group of players in poor gear can, and should, feel successful when they kill a player stomping about in their shiny black suit. They will have cost that player a ton of money while loosing none themselves, regardless of how many times they die.

Sniping is boring. It is the equivalent of clicking on an icon that moves around a bit. Actually attacking though, hunting, that takes tactics, communication, team work, and has a huge risk reward all of which leads to more fun.

You have forsaken the rules of dueling which I expect from one of your ilk but your impropriety will not save your dignity. Your words are nothing short of an acceptance to my challenge.

The Duel Has Been Accepted Now the Terms Will Be Set
Time: 11:30 pm west coast US time
Place: # sand castles channel
Weapon: Nova Knives
Duration: To the death of the first clone

Show your self and prove you're more than just a waste of space, or hide and prove all the rest of us correct.

We can make this happen.

Add #Sand Castles, I'll set up a thunderdome on one of our districts. We have multiple dudes who can record the 1v1s in spectator like mode to show it's fair. What roles do you play? I'll see who'd be interested. I'll even make it risk free. I'll cover your losses and I'll give you 20 mil ISK for each dude you beat in a best of 5.

I'm not the greatest slayer so most people can whip my ass. But in a squad providing support I'm pretty good. You need both in a team based game. I'll never apologize for my corp being good in squads, you sound like a fool insinuating that is a bad thing.

Beyond his calling team play unfair (which I find hillarious) is that he assumes all of us have gotten payed just because our corps are active in PC. Clearly he has absolutely zero understanding of general corp mechanics or the fact that only a few corps payed stipends (when passive isk from PC was a thing) and even then they really only payed their top players. Most of the rank and file of those corps got nothing from the passive isk.

I would also like to point out that Molon did not pay its players stipends and probably never will.

Nash...Hey Nash...your ignorance is showing again. You had better cover it up with another boring rant that makes you seem like a tantrum-ing two year old.