What are you getting at here?

I think ISK efficiency would be a good metric to add to the leaderboard, but I don't think it'll change much of anything in pubs. Most of the people that cause the tears have incredible ISK efficiency while wearing the most expensive stuff they can get their hands on.

I'd say the low payouts have been driving the behavior that has lead to so many lopsidded matches (people using cheap gear 24/7). Giving people another reason to be concerned about what they are spending will only drive a portion of the player base to be even more passive.

I think a lot of the veteran, PC corps would hardly entertain public matches if platoon/team deploy were available through raids and FW 24/7. You don't have to re-invent the wheel here, just provide content to entertain the veteran skilled players while also providing the casual and/or low SP players something to strive for at a later date.

With the removal of passive ISK in PC there are no longer any payouts or bonuses being paid by corporations.

I think a lot can be done once other game modes are there for corporations to build for. A lot of the discussion about the future of PC is focused on activity within the corporation building resources to allow corporations to conduct PC operations. Hopefully players will be rewarded automatically by their corporations for successfully defending against raids or for fulfilling faction contracts, etc.

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In my opinion the only way to turn it around in the short term would be to incentivize higher level gear in pubs to give the higher skilled players something more difficult to kill.

Basically turning their COD story mode from Beginner to Intermediate.

Okay, now I'm buying in. But there has to be a point where this kicks in. You can't have a dude that goes 4-0 with 200 WP getting 4x his normal payout because he sniped in a starter suit.

These are all awful ideas. Don't reward the shitberries not capable of bringing a well fit advanced suit that will actually be contributing to the win.

If anything, running better gear should net better payouts.

tl;dr; you're a shitler if you don't bring the best gear you can afford to at least profit with.

If everyone at least ran a well fit advanced suit instead of hurrdurr millitia 1337 isk efficiency the game would be much better. It would even band-aid fix specific roles that are garbage at lower tiers.

Locking out end game content to people willing to play "end game" competitive game-modes is stupid.

More people running overall better fits is good for the game.

While retards running around in militia getting farmed isn't if YOU don't understand this, than I don't know what to tell you.

What we need isn't people downgrading because it would be more efficient than it already is, it's people to run better gear and be overall more effective in pubs.

It's not that they're new, they're just bad or don't know enough about the game to be effective.
It's been said time and time again, skill > gear.

Wall of text with some sound numbers and good ideas.

I don't see why you can't just fix the NPE without screwing over the already ****** end of match payouts. It's the far better option.

Forcing pubs to be a standard gear **** show won't make the gap between new players and vets any smaller.

The Underlined is the primary reason why we will never have decent matchmaking.

Not enough players, not enough resources. Everything we can do will be a band aid, that really doesn't address the real problem.


Oh, and the bolded. IF I had such an answer, I would be working for CCP (Or somewhere else). I'll never understand why everyone thinks we should be doing CCP's job for them.

CCP should have someone sitting down, at a desk, right now. Doing exactly what we are doing in OUR SPARE TIME.

I love that the playerbase is so willing to try and fix this game. I hate the fact that CCP appears to have nowhere near as much drive.