Vrain Matari
Mikramurka Shock Troop
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2015.10.21 13:46:00 -
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Shaun Iwairo wrote:Ghost Kaisar wrote:Shaun Iwairo wrote:Devadander wrote:To clarify:
I was never part of pc1.0.
Never part of a giant corp.
Never had taxes on my corp.
Never scammed anyone.
Never ran exploits.
Had 900m pre-trading.
I am now worth 2.2b.
I have made my isk the hard way.
And yes, buying aur and selling the items is hard too.
I work for my money.
And I'm sure there are others like you. Do you think having earned your own ISK changes your attitude towards stuff like running your officer gear in pubs? edit: I should clairfy that is a real question, not rhetorical. I wasn't in PC 1.0 I've only ever been in FA and a handful of other small corps. LOL Taxes Never scammed Never exploited I got all my ISK through playing PC and ringing in PC. Compared to a lot of people I know in PC, I'm also very poor only ever having at most 300 mil ISK in my wallet. I've known people with literal BILLIONS of ISK in PC. Keeping that in mind, I still think that people can run whatever the hell they want. It's a freaking sandbox game. At first glance it does seem like the game is set up to let people run what they want, but it's not entirely true. For your average player, pubs are going to be their main source of income. At ~250K/match that gives them about 5 ADV suits. 5 deaths is not a bad round? Not great, but not bad. 5 deaths in mid-tier gear just to not lose ISK. So what if that player wants to start running proto? How on earth does a player that generates ISK from pubs make the step up to being able to run proto? Derp around in STD or MLT for five or six matches just so they can run proto for one?
This is a central point of the argument here. I personally don't care what weapons are being used except where it has a huge negative impact on the NPE.
I've been the single strongest supporter of an 'unfair' playing field on these forums for the past three years, i don't support meta lock, and i want noobs mixed with vets in pubs to amplify the single-shard shared universe that is New Eden - but there's a limit to power differential beyond which it is insane to tread, and we've passed it.
The NPSR(Noob Stomp Power Rating) of a vet has increased dramatically under Rattati's governance from four primary mechanisms:
- Soft tiericide. I'm hoping the forum has had enough time and experience with soft tiericide to finally realize that this was a buff to vet vs. noob power because we(vets) get more out of the base suit stats and more out of each module. I know the noobs felt it when i started fielding my 700+ ehp Raven C-1 suit for a few measly ISK.
- Warbarge damage buff. For the tryhards fielding officer weapons/suits in pubs this is doubtless at +5% or +6%.
- Strongbox officer drops. These amplify vet power, do absolutely nothin' for noob power.
- Warbarge Experimental Weapons Lab. Noobs can't or can't afford to use this, they're trying to train their weapon damage modifier up. Players spending $250 should not be part of anybody's game-design balance calculations.
Now let's multiply these buffs to the NSPR of vets by the multiplier afforded through individual ewar, and then multiply it by the factor for shared ewar. Mwahahaha......gg Rattati, i can now consume noobs like the raspberries they are, cramming double-fisted handfuls of them down my leering vet gob until.....i need to reload...... 
I hope the devs don't spend a single second thinking about new player retention, that would be a needless waste of time because part of the answer is obvious and comes from changes made by the devs themselves in the recent history of the game.
PSN: RationalSpark
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