Piercing Serenity
PFB Pink Fluffy Bunnies
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Posted - 2015.04.07 22:38:00 -
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Cypher Nil wrote:
I would say then that the matchmaking is the issue and not really that players are running proto suits, we need to match proto teams against each other in combat. I just wish people would stop posting day in day out to ban or remove or limit proto suits to their own game modes.
If they actually removed proto suits players would then be complaining about being stomed by teams running only advanced. its ridiculous, proto stomping is not a real thing. its just organised teams
I disagree. Proto stomping is a real thing. An organized team with advanced gear would be beaten by an organized team in proto gear. Its the reason that you don't see PC corps run advanced gear loadouts.
On a more holistic level, Proto stomping is exacerbated because passive ISK has destroyed the one balancing factor of proto gear. Before PC began, and before ISK was worthless, there was no proto stomping in the way that we have it now. Sure, some corps like PFBHz had the funds to run proto as often as they liked, but we were part of the minority, not the majority.
Proto gear, particularly proto heavies at one point, were just so expensive that you could not justify their use except in competitive battle. It also meant that, through skill, a player with worse gear could put enough financial pressure on an opponent to force them to downgrade their gear and even the playing field between them. This had the effect of allowing teams to limit how rampant proto gear was in a given battle.
Nowadays, fighting against Proto is like a new corp fighting against an established one. No matter how well you do in lesser gear, even if skill is even between two groups, you don't have much hope at all in forcing proto teams to switch gear due to financial pressure. So, for any two groups that are evenly matched, the team running the best gear will always win. That may be logically sensible, but it is not fun. I think most players like the idea of the underdog story - where they stick at it in sub-par gear (compared to their opponents), and force their opponents to bleed enough ISK to do something different.
I got enemies,
got a lot of enemies
, got a lot of people tryna drain me of this energy
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