You're suppose to be running economy suits until you save up enough to run FW, then use less costly FW suits for PC, which is how you get rich. Running 400k suits (which don't exist) in a match is something you should never do unless you are in the Meat-grinder Gallente Research Facility. You should be running Quafe/ Starter-Fit/ Less than 10k Standard fits, speccing into Proficiency so that your Militia Gun becomes an Adv one. Make 5 mil a day, burn off around half that by running FW. Either AFK (But please don't), or use miltia in matches you think you'll lose. Use LP to conserve on the most expensive aspects of Proto, your gun and suit itself.

Find a way to PC, be it show your measure and mettle against good teams and then join their pc chat

Payouts are crap?! No long drawn out speech about how crap they are because you, the community, already know this. With bandwidth coming into the picture now running all my gear to make 400k will be impossible. Why do we get paid so low?

Would like the communities opinion on this.

You're suppose to be running economy suits until you save up enough to run FW, then use less costly FW suits for PC, which is how you get rich. Running 400k suits (which don't exist) in a match is something you should never do unless you are in the Meat-grinder Gallente Research Facility. You should be running Quafe/ Starter-Fit/ Less than 10k Standard fits, speccing into Proficiency so that your Militia Gun becomes an Adv one. Make 5 mil a day, burn off around half that by running FW. Either AFK (But please don't), or use miltia in matches you think you'll lose. Use LP to conserve on the most expensive aspects of Proto, your gun and suit itself.

Find a way to PC, be it show your measure and mettle against good teams and then join their pc chat

Payouts are crap?!

Is this a question or a statement?

Dust mercs are on minimum wage?!

Here is your solution short and sweet:
Play cheaper and you wont worry about payouts

You're suppose to be running economy suits until you save up enough to run FW, then use less costly FW suits for PC, which is how you get rich. Running 400k suits (which don't exist) in a match is something you should never do unless you are in the Meat-grinder Gallente Research Facility. You should be running Quafe/ Starter-Fit/ Less than 10k Standard fits, speccing into Proficiency so that your Militia Gun becomes an Adv one. Make 5 mil a day, burn off around half that by running FW. Either AFK (But please don't), or use miltia in matches you think you'll lose. Use LP to conserve on the most expensive aspects of Proto, your gun and suit itself.

Find a way to PC, be it show your measure and mettle against good teams and then join their pc chat

From another thread on here. My thoughts on payouts:

Agree with the OP and the overall premise.

I don't necessarily agree that being in the bottom of the bracket should be NO ISK, but I think we can find a decent model. Here is something I've been kicking around for a while. Set it so each "position" on the board has a set ISK amount. Then use a multiplier with WP to come to a total figure.

1. 100 k
2. 95 k
3. 90 k
4. 85 k
5. 80 k
6. 75 k
7. 70 k
8. 60 k
9. 50 k
10 and below 25 k.

Then take the individual's WP's and multiply them by "x" and then multiply that with the total payout. For example, for an Ambush match, I'll use .0025 So I am on top of the board and I get 1500 WP in the match. We take 1500 X .0025 = 3.75. 3.75 X my first place payout of 100k = 375,000

2nd player gets 1100 WP.
1100x.0025 is 2.75 X 95k = 261250

If the top player goes apeshit and puts up 4000 WP or more, that is where we have some issues that need to be worked out.

We have 4000 x .0025 for 10 X 100k is 1 Million ISK. However, we are not seeing 4000 WP put up in Ambush (Normally).
So what I would do is adjust the multiplier on the type of match. Ambush are the quickest so they will not have as high WP totals as a Dom or skirmish. So for Dom and Skirm, we change the multiplier to say .0015.
4000 WP * .0015 is 6 x 100k is a 600,000 ISK payout. Right in what I believe is a sweet spot. Not too ridiculous but enough to make it worth the person's while.

Those matches where you have one person putting up 6000 WP is still under a million (though, at 900K, is pretty damn close)

People who are AFK'ing are going to be sitting there making a total of 25k ISK (not worth it) and those trying to help the team will be rewarded. Even in the stomp-matches, those who have the most WP overall will be rewarded for the effort.

Any thoughts/comments?

What about boosters?