JARREL THOMAS
Dead Man's Game
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Posted - 2015.04.07 23:03:00 -
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"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."
The name of the poster I forgot but he has a good point. While I've always wanted to avoid posting this because I usually get the reply "that I earned this isk through "fair pub game". But now I must post this as he said the one disadvantage of proto gear has been ruined especially with these, 100mill+ players, the reason why the stomps didn't happen so often prior the PC isk farmville ,because no one had the money. and bringing isk to an average would fix things for many of the less rich Dust players. And if not average atleast seperate the groups (you know meta) so you guys could fight eachother and we could fight eachother and we can all switch servers if needed.
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JARREL THOMAS
Dead Man's Game
RUST415
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Posted - 2015.04.07 23:41:00 -
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LUGMOS wrote:No.
It's too late.. Plus people would just stock up before the reset. Only a full asset wipe would change this, and frankly, that would be a ton of manpower and time more useful for other things.
Mmm well then meta will hopefully change the course of things.
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