Like that. I could totally get on board with this. Might be the only thing that kept me playing actually.

Sadly the fact that it has not been done is contributing to the death of the game. Past mistakes and even the current ISK fountain that is PC has destroyed the game's economy. The NPE and pretty much any merc under 50mill SPs (you know the guys that would still spend money on the game) suffer from the ineptitude of the past from CCP. A reset would also separate the guys who actually love the game from those who simply love to ruin others' experience, as the **** bags who can't handle a level playing field will move on.

You kill the supply of an item, you kill the trade of that item.

Actually, no. you won't. As rarity increases, the price and value of the item follows suit. there will always be a market for officer gear by people who are willing to pay for it, and there have always been players willing to pay for it.

Experimental weapons are being retained, maintaining a level slightly above proto without falling into the Officer realm of "deliberately overpowered."

Trade them.

The funniest thing is that there are vets around today that actually believe it's easier to be a new player now than it has ever been. As though somehow the playerbase could have been slanted towards veteran players even more than it is now.

I can I burst their bubble on that one? It flipping well isn't!

Yes you will.

Rarity is not increasing because of natural market forces, rarity is increasing by killing the supply without doing anything to change the existing stockpiles. It like if all the worlds gold ceased to be sold tomorrow and you told me, dont worry there is still silver. Investors with stockpiles of gold make a killing off of it, and a market saturated in silver makes silver worthless.

Your idea of the officer fix for trade makes that trade market ominated by the few who can afford to stockpile them and financially lock out the majority of the player base who can't.


You are still skirting around the issue of "officer gear is still plentiful in the hands of a few players so lets make it rare for everyone else but them." Breaking why not go the full monty and make it rare for eveyone and reimburse players in ISK?

If you want to make officer gear rare then MAKE IT RARE.

Otherwise if you're saying "we should make it rare to produce but players should keep thier massive stockpiles to stomp with," then you whole idea of finding balance is flawed. I.e "too much officer in pubs, Breaking should stop generating officer but tesfa should keep 1,000 officer items" just hands all financial and stomping incentive to me. It like saying no proto shall be used in pubs except for every one who has level 5 already. Everybody else, is meta locked.

I repeat, sieze everything to make it fair. Don't take B.S. half measures to pretend to do so.

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This is the biggest difference between Chromosome NPE and Warlords NPE.

There's a few sides to this, but the NPE needs to be a much higher priority.

I personally am of the opinion that new players need to not be used as filler for matches with people runnong 30-100 million SP

Facwar? No sympathy.

Planetary conquest? Even less sympathy.

But pubs with new players do not need to be thrown up against me and my 1300 -1600 HP fatsuits or my obnoxious marathon running assault fits. Newbie tank drivers most assuredly do not need to be in a match with me stroking my IAFG AVpeen. I may be only "decent" as an overall infantry player but a buncha newbies in sicas, somas,G-1 and C-1 HAVs don't have a prayer because I'm actually lretty good at destroying vehicles.

But in any case we are deeply off topic.

1. Chromosome ttk was also maddeningly short and

2. the duvolle reigned supreme. I don't remember chromosome as any period of greater fairness except in the case of AV/V interactions with the sole exception of the Surya.

3. Newbs facing proto was just as violently one sided as it is today.

I can I burst their bubble on that one? It flipping well isn't!

... and they're gonna get wrecked when they make the right move.

This is something I think we can and should improve upon.

If newbros and protobears are to play together, newbros should have the tools needed to kill protobears and should be amply rewarded when they manage to do so.