This is aimed more toward "cow clicker" mobile games...

You can earn ISK in Dust pretty easily: run ambushes. I hate that game mode but it makes me decent ISK.

You can also run starter fittings and every ISK you make from the match is pure profit... Run militia/standard fittings and you would have to die 50+ times to lose money that match.

If you watch the full episode at 9 r point they explain ..that a ftp game just can't be to much fun otherwise less people will use microtransactions.

They keep isk payouts uber ******
And keep decent risk vs rewards system out of dust to promote microtransactions
they intentionally keep this game in a barely satisfying state
Just like every simple Freemium phone game dust is no better

that Southpark episode nails dust on the head ..

No, it doesn't.

It nailed the simpsons tapped out app and ipad and mobile apps on the head.

"Make the game about waiting but let them pay not to wait"

Sounds like they nailed Dust 514 to me. 'Do more, faster!'.

Explains why we will never see decent changes to isk payouts ..

Allot if people said that the day they accidentally bugged payouts was the most fun of dusts life ..
And it was fun
But here Southpark explains why balanced risk cs reward system will never exist in dust
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5CbWr0zO7Ac

You can wait for passive SP, or you can take part in matches and earn active SP. Active SP nets you more SP per hour and the cap is enormous now.

Don't want have the patience to skill into proto for something? Buy the facwar version for LP. While you are playing FW you will earn more SP.

If you watch the full episode at 9 r point they explain ..that a ftp game just can't be to much fun otherwise less people will use microtransactions.

They keep isk payouts uber ******
And keep decent risk vs rewards system out of dust to promote microtransactions
they intentionally keep this game in a barely satisfying state
Just like every simple Freemium phone game dust is no better

that Southpark episode nails dust on the head ..

That's why Legion should not be F2P.

First of all. ISK rewards are balanced to make:

1.)Standard gear highly profitable.
2.)Advanced gear able to break even with a bit of effort.
3.)Prototype gear hard to make a profit.

So, to me, it just sounds like you are buttmad that you can't run Proto 100% of the time like you could during the bugged payouts.

Second of all. Dust is relatively fun without spending any money. If you need bigger numbers to flash across your screen to have more fun, then you are the freemium target audience.
Sure, spending money does make the game more fun, but it would be broken if it didn't make the game more fun.

First of all. ISK rewards are balanced to make:

1.)Standard gear highly profitable.
2.)Advanced gear able to break even with a bit of effort.
3.)Prototype gear hard to make a profit.

So, to me, it just sounds like you are buttmad that you can't run Proto 100% of the time like you could during the bugged payouts.

Second of all. Dust is relatively fun without spending any money. If you need bigger numbers to flash across your screen to have more fun, then you are the freemium target audience.
Sure, spending money does make the game more fun, but it would be broken if it didn't make the game more fun.

In certain situations there it literally no point in playing over afking..Payouts were cut in half with 1.9 and they were barely decent before 1.9 the difference between sitting on your ass and doing nothing in this game vs giving it your all isn't even noticeable ...which is why afking is rampant..

I can agree with the one , two and three of your statement and it's true and would be a major problem if it wasn't this way .

I spend money and for the most part I enjoy myself , I don't spend as much as some but I do my share to support the company and the game it's self .

This is a business and businesses need profit to profit , that's common knowledge .

I just don't see a problem here .

If ISK payments are more then that would just destroy the fragile balance that this game has .

More people running proto with no problems and no risks .

Is that helpful for new players and those who are less then a year into the game ??? I just can't see how that would benefit the structure .

People AFKed before 1.9 and they did so because of screwed matchmaking where you have pro stacked squads and q-sync prototype teams killing the experience of pub matches .

If they AFK during FW then they would do the same in a PC match and that says more about the player over the situation it's self .

They should bring back the war-barge in pub matches and give enough time for players to make squads with a total mix of random players instead of allowing ready made squads and q-sync pro teams to kill the randomness of the pub environment so I would leave that up to CCP and there designs on if they want to change and address the real issue and problem with pub matches .

I just believe that you should not see more then three of the same corporation unless it's a starter corp , in a pub match ... that way you don't have to have meta restrictions in a pub match and you keep the random nature of how a pub match should be but many would and do disagree with this idea .

AFKing has more to do with skill disparaging then not getting a huge payment of ISK at the end of a match .

Your misrepresenting the real reasons for those who AFK .

Oh I'm sorry I guess your the official rep of all afkers ..then explain to me why afking wasn't a problem Nov 4th if it's got nothing to do with isk .got the best fights in pubs I've ever had that day

LOL, our choice. Personally, I'll take optional microtransactions and free updates over 10 lots of costly DLC map packs every year with the following year seeing a new game released to repeat the cycle while the other fades out of existence.

With DUST, if I don't spend money on the game I'm not really losing out, but if I don't buy every map pack on CoD (which are **** and extremely overpriced) then I don't get to play any new maps. Hmmm.

In certain situations there it literally no point in playing over afking..Payouts were cut in half with 1.9 and they were barely decent before 1.9 the difference between sitting on your ass and doing nothing in this game vs giving it your all isn't even noticeable ...which is why afking is rampant..

They keep isk payouts uber ******
And keep decent risk vs rewards system out of dust to promote microtransactions
they intentionally keep this game in a barely satisfying state
Just like every simple Freemium phone game dust is no better

that Southpark episode nails dust on the head ..