Edgar Reinhart
Resheph Interstellar Strategy
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2015.11.02 13:07:00 -
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I actually don't mind the idea that you have to run FW and Pubs to maintain a healthy balance sheet. To me that is quite a good part of the game, the fact that as a mercenary you have to not only control your fits, grind your SP and win your battles but balance your books too.
It's why I'd argue that even if Pub payout is increased it shouldn't be increased to the point that it enables everybody who can to run proto comfortably all the time even if they've earned to 'right' to.
I know that that's probably not a popular POV and I also know that the economy is pretty broken meaning that ISK sinks are pretty meaningless for the top 10-20-30% of players, butt I still like the dynamic.
It would be nice if running regular proto in pubs well allowed you to maintain ISK and a bad round is a big hit on ISK. Running Std/Adv in pubs should be comfortable and allow you to save up for running proto if you want in Pubs and FW. (A proto gk.0 fit is what 160,000 odd? and you should be able to loose, what, 2ish a round and maybe make a small profit on the battle?)
Obviously Proto in FW is a big ISK sink but maybe the other rewards (LP, salvage etc) need to be looked at to make the win, or rather just competing for the win generally more worthwhile. (A good FW battle is a great game mode but being on the end of a stomp is pretty much a worthless 15 mins of your game time). Maybe a reason to be LP rich rather than ISK rich is a good idea, or as you say allowing that accumulated LP to be converted into ISK through trade. Parity in the LP store is also important, but as I've said in the opening, the idea of having to run different contracts for different reasons is one I like. (I'd say FW is my favourite contract type too)
The only way you should be able to guarantee proto to be constantly available to you is being in a corp and running regular PC (this coming from someone who as you can see has never left his starter corp..... ideally raiding etc can be factored into this too to help people who aren't in PC corps to have a shot at the big bucks).
Sorry that became more about proto than FW / the LP store than intended..... and I'm happy to be in the minority on this. I'm fairly certain I played this game more masochistically than most. I've been playing for just over a year and didn't run anything apart from Starter Suits right up until I'd got my first 100,000LP for an APEX. I put my first Adv weapon on that APEX to try and grind the kills for the last event. |