ISK efficiency only motivates certain players. Many players just don't want to get spanked. Some people just hate losing. It doesn't matter if ISK exists or not.

Remove ISK and you remove one of they few things that makes Dust different from other FPS: asset loss.

That is how you personally see it. That is not a bad outlook; even if you can't win you can at least top the EoM screen.

Sadly, I don't think this outlook is shared by the majority of people.

Also, remember that it is one thing to lose and another to get stomped. I have had close matches result in a loss that were incredibly fun. Then there are those matches where you are alive maybe 10s before a squad of officer gear chodes descend upon you.

Nothing to kill, or die for...

It would be ok till everyone starts running officer gear. Because without isk everything would have to be unlimited right? What about officer? It would be a nice idea excluding officer but then.......

Thanks for the compliment.

The game needs a lot of things! The hard part is prioritizing, and making the most use of CCP's limited resources.

Here would be my list in order of importance

1.) Performance: The first thing that turns players off Dust. Silly glitches, Scotty errors, invisible walls, sticky floors, annoying terrain and overall clunkyness have no place in a modern shooter.

2.) Fun: This one is pretty broad and means a lot of things. Long story short every player should be able to turn on Dust and have a good time.

Different things are fun to different people so Dust needs to do a better job of everything it's currently trying to do.

Pubs should be a casual pick-up-and-play mode with a better matchmaking system, and an appropriate learning curve will graduate players into FW and PC.

3.) NPE: This game is bad at NPE. We've lost a lot of players because of it. I've already made lists of WA to improve this. But there needs to be a proper learning curve for new players.

4.) Customization: Customize everything! Customization is one of the most addicting parts of any game, including Dust, but it can do better. We need to customize our guns, Warbarges, Merc quarters HUD's, corporate HQ maps etc. Everything!

5.) Port: When the time is right, drop this fixed up game on the next gen (with a bundle of goodies for everyone who played on PS3)

6.) Profit

Lot of player's know my standpoint on the dogma that is risk/reward and asset loss. I came from Eve Online, so obviously there is a certain bias at hand but I have always had the volition that you should absolutely have to consider the loss of everything in a war-game like Dust 514. The in-game economy is incredibly important to me, however little of an economy it may be, and I've always held the stand-point that if it is free, it should come at some sort of cost, performance or otherwise.

It pains me to see so many players running around with APEX and BPO suits and even more so to watch the escalation from Militia BPOs, which do have a performance loss, to Standard BPOs, and now APEXs. I understand that it is a necessary evil, however.

I don't like it. Never have. I know a lot of players will contest me on that and say they just want to have fun, and that is fine. However I think a big contributing factor to what made Dust 514 as niche as it is -was- that consideration of value. That emphatic feeling of "Hah! I killed an officer suit using only standard gear!". That feeling, however, is de-valued whenever the gear being run is free (Militia, Standard, APEX) or too plentiful (officer).

I am passionate about this sort of thing and I think that sort of makes me a minority among the community, perhaps even the CPM, and I've made my standpoint on that very... very clear.

They brought a tank out? Two seconds while I log in to my tank alt.

I've got 99mill SP, anything over 60 is irrelevant/not substantial.

You can stomp in pubs solo, juts not as effectively.
I'd say remove squads from Ambush (that should be done ages ago) and maybe from Dom/Acq.