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Thor Odinson42
Molon Labe.
General Tso's Alliance
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Posted - 2014.08.26 14:29:00 -
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I'm not aware of people getting paid salaries anymore. I doubt it's happening. ISK is being saved for clone packs as you don't send clones from districts everytime.
The biggest eye opener for me was finding role players. We have had some straight up badasses on our teams in the past and we scratched our heads trying to figure out what the problem was. It takes an understanding of the strategies and how to build your squads to be able to pull those strategies off. You have to have guys that will stand in the spot you tell them to and are able to accept a 0-0 25 WP game if that's the way it turns out.
PC isn't the problem. It's the fact that there wasn't anything released alongside it to allow people to get the reps necessary to get proficient in playing other teams. That and the logistical nightmare created by not having a team building UI, it limits the amount of battles a corporation can manage. More than two at a time and it turns into a clusterfuck.
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Thor Odinson42
Molon Labe.
General Tso's Alliance
4381
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Posted - 2014.08.26 14:44:00 -
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Nothing Certain wrote:My solution to PC is to tier the districts. There should be little or no incentive to hold many districts but there should be a top dog district that everyone wants and slightly lesser ones. This would mean that we know who the best really is, create more competition and less alliances, and would allow lesser corps to compete at differing levels. The #1 corp would have no reason to try and take district #50. There should be a limit on how many districts any one player can defend, so that one A team doesn't control the top twenty spots.
In other words, a continuos tournament.
Window timers.
You allow a corp to set a "downtime" window. I think perhaps you could upgrade that window (maybe with ISK or it lowers the payout multiplier) between 8-12 hours. If you attack a district within "uptime" the battle spins up within 30 minutes.
This would have made it possible to have action all the time. It would have created a diverse PC environment as small groups wouldn't have been able to hold huge chunks of land. You would see dozens of good FCs by now instead of the handful that you see currently. The lack of field commanders and squad leaders is what holds back most corps.
Having to wait 24-48 hours for matches is disappointing and it allowed everyone to find a team of black belt ninja ringers in the peak of PC. People waiting around for 30 minutes or more before PC matches only to be asked to stick around in case of DC's made a LOT of people give the finger to PC.
The mechanics were/are HORRIBLE. The battles themselves are fun when there is no lag, but the mechanics ensured that it was the elite of the elite and it ran off a lot of players from Dust not just from PC.
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PSN: wbrom42
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Thor Odinson42
Molon Labe.
General Tso's Alliance
4386
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Posted - 2014.08.26 16:13:00 -
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Dudes wanting to build PC teams should be in bigger corps right now taking notes, building relationships with people.
You have to understand what it takes to build a PC team. ****, get an alt in a corp and listen to their preparations, inquire about PC qualification. Find dudes that like playing as a team in FW channels.
It's not impossible and there has never been a time in the history of PC that's better for PC noobs.
Level 4 Forum Warrior Very, very bitter vet
PSN: wbrom42
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Thor Odinson42
Molon Labe.
General Tso's Alliance
4413
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Posted - 2014.08.27 13:39:00 -
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Dust User wrote:Thor Odinson42 wrote:
You have to understand what it takes to build a PC team.
A whole lot of this. It's more than finding the best 16 slayers. Building proper squads for what they will be defending is key to victory. I've rang for plenty of corps and this is the one thing I see where most of them go wrong. Matches are won and lost during the preparation stage.
And talking about what went wrong after the match. If there is a bunch of finger pointing instead of trying to understand what the enemy did and working to counter it, you are doing it wrong.
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PSN: wbrom42
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