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Cat Merc
Fatal Absolution
General Tso's Alliance
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Posted - 2015.02.05 05:15:00 -
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PRO suits don't make nearly as much as a difference as the person who wields them.
Never have I thought this to be more true than yesterday, where I faceplanted PRO suits into the dirt with my Quafe Assault.
In any case, I earned my riches through pub matches, you don't need to go through PC to have ridiculous amounts of ISK.
At 260mil ISK, losing 10 protosuits doesn't hurt, like at all.
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Cat Merc
Fatal Absolution
General Tso's Alliance
14900
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Posted - 2015.02.05 05:27:00 -
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Kierkegaard Soren wrote:If my fit costs me more than 50k isk then I will lose money in just about every session of play. I can just about make a profit on running ADV suits and gear for around 35k.
This worries me. Because I'm a reasonable player who can regularly place top three in any given pub match (no brag here, I know) and most of that is the result of my 35mil sp carrying me through and smoothing over the cracks of my truly average gun game. I play conservatively, I drop uplinks, I hunt tanks. I can make wp's happen. My KDR is positive much more often than it is negative. I'm reasonably successful as a merc in New Eden.
Point being, I can do all that and I'll still never even touch proto in a serious manner. It would bankrupt me in a month of casual play, and I am by no means destitute currently. Proto gear is simply not a sustainable choice, and I'm actuslly happy with that because that's how it should be; they're the shiny toys you bring out when stuff gets serious. But all the major corps run full proto squads in pubs with total disregard to the loss of isk that they surely must incur. It's unusual for even the best players to lose no suits throughout the course of a match, and by estimation if you lose two fully fitted proto assaults you have blown that match's paycheck and then some. But it happens anyway, day after day.
This is a game that was meant to built around the consequences of your choices and the harsh lessons of your failures. What we actuslly have is an untouchable elite with near limitless resources crushing all opposition without having to worry about any losses incurred to themselves in the process. It's toxic. We need to stop it.
What you don't see happen is those vets later go and roll over 5 matches where they don't lose a single fit.
I get fair battles with protosuit vs protosuit and an enemy of decent skill, and then lose 3-6 protosuits, but later I recoup all the losses with 5 complete stomps.
It's the power of a squad.
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Cat Merc
Fatal Absolution
General Tso's Alliance
14900
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Posted - 2015.02.05 05:33:00 -
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Buwaro Draemon wrote:CommanderBolt wrote:If CCP actually balanced matches..... it would make all the difference in the world.
If this means that to do it in pubs, squad sizes have to change (for pubs) then so be it! Are people really more bothered about being able to stomp noobs than the health and balance aka FUN of the game? Apparently running a 6 man proto stomping squad is more healthier for the game according to the stompers.
Actually, it is.
Half of the players of this game wouldn't have stuck around if it wasn't for their corpmates and forumites around.
Anything that hurts our ability to play together hurts the game. Full stop.
What I would say is that matchmaking should do its best effort to matchmake squads with squads.
Those tend to be good battles, and newberries on the side can pick off stragglers while the big boys spend millions of ISK 
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Fatal Absolution
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Posted - 2015.02.05 09:33:00 -
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Edau Skir2 wrote:Cat Merc wrote:Buwaro Draemon wrote:CommanderBolt wrote:If CCP actually balanced matches..... it would make all the difference in the world.
If this means that to do it in pubs, squad sizes have to change (for pubs) then so be it! Are people really more bothered about being able to stomp noobs than the health and balance aka FUN of the game? Apparently running a 6 man proto stomping squad is more healthier for the game according to the stompers. Actually, it is. Half of the players of this game wouldn't have stuck around if it wasn't for their corpmates and forumites around. Anything that hurts our ability to play together hurts the game. Full stop. I happen to disagree. In pubs, I don't run my highest tier suits, because playing against Bluegrapes in it is no fun at all. Now, playing a BrScr only low eHP scout? Much fun. But a Commando mk.0 with Boundless Specialist Cr and Agimus' Modified MD, with Complex mods? Not overly enjoyable to stomp with.
What does this have anything to do with?
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