How do you only skill 1 race and thats it?.... you dont have 85mil+ sp to skill 5 proto suits 5 advanced max out all their weapons (etc., etc)......

I have no idea what you are talking about

all my basic frames are at least to level 1 I have at least one specialized role in each faction to level 1

I have all my Caldari frames at Level 3 excluding the sentinel

all my cores are almost maxed with the exception of equipment which is all to level 3

all vehicle upgrades to 3 I have all drop ships unlocked including ADS and I have unlocked saga II

I unlocked all basic tanks and all turrets excluding missile turrets

my corp skills allow me to have a corp of at least 200 members

all weapons unlocked to at least level 3 with most if not all reload skills to level 3 as well

two proto light weapons with prof 2

I only have 26.5mill sp and I am already active in PC

If someone chooses to specialize and only use one thing that's fine but how do you not get bored? LP items can give free access to early proto gear if you have whatever role to level 3 from level 3- 5 you have to spend over 1mill sp (why waste sp in something that you don't even know if you'll perform well in) and even after spending 2.5mill on a dropsuit if you dont have your cores maxed and you don't have proto weapons and gear you are going to under perform, better to use an ADV suit with proto gear then a proto suit with ADV gear


new players need to max their cores skill into std suits and whatever roles of each race thy want to level 1 only until cores are maxed, then choose your favored weapon and max that out, once you have that maxed you can move on to each role and max one out at a time starting with your favored role

a std suit with maxed cores can perform better then adv or proto suits with weak core skills (not to mention that its way cheaper)

its only taken me a little over a year playing semi hardcore to get where I am although half that time was spent in 1.8 where the cap was 190k weekly SP or something close to that, grinding 1k wp per match back then was the only way to get any sp after you finished your reserves 1sp per wp capped at 1k meaning if you didnt get any wp you didnt get any sp after capping which took me two days at most to cap

now I can grind out SP without any boosters and just playing casually and still have about 100k left at the end of the week if I don't play hardcore

back then It was hard to acquire SP anyone playing now can get to the point I am in half the time playing just as much

back to the topic on hand I don't see any problem with specializing other then it locking you into one role and I prefer to have options so I am skilled into everything and I do not have 85mill sp

I have always been amarr. I have tried other races but the gear from my race just suits me.

At first I started investing my SP only in Gallente because I have the mindset to try to max out completely one aspect of something before moving on to the next.

Now I am such a Gallente loyalist that I actually despise in varying degrees the other factions and I have zero interest in investing SP in them.

I gave that life up when I finally realized that having only 3 weapons to play with was "dull" in every sense of the word. Now I use Minmatar and Amarr suits/weapons

Its and interesting concept you bring up here. One I fully understand in fact....especially because I tie content to level of enjoyment. However at the same time other content beyond Amarrian stuff holds no value for me even if it would refresh the game.

Unlike you I cannot physically bring myself to enjoy any other facet of Dust 514 content that is not tied to the Amarr or HAV......I don't think I'd ever get tired of the weapons themselves or the Amarr alone.....I just got bored of the lack of challenge in FW.

Why should I need to use anything but the technology of my people.

Every weapon is a Shrine to God's Glory.
Every piece of armour a Cathedral to stand bastion against the Faithless.
Every vehicle would be as Imud Hubrau, the Beast of Heaven, every beam of energy the roar of Usumgallu.

I am Amarrian. It's not just what I am but who as well as much in the way my Faith defines me so too does my aesthetic as an Amarrian.

What other need have I?

Fine line between loyalist and apologist. Make sure you understand the distinction.