I still run my Imperial Seraph and I love the damn thing

Its more about not getting pissed off that I lost my "best proto" suit even though that doesnt make sense now.....

I still use Militia weapons because I get off on killing people with them

Love my Militia Magsec BPO

"I do it, therefore you can." I'm pretty sure that's a logical fallacy, not to mention that you didn't reciprocate all of my points.

There are still some lurking variables. Such as the fact that you have limitless ISK, or you get better matches, or your gungame is better than mine. I'm a good player, but not a great one.

The point is, I'm aware of how my choice of suits affects my wallet, and I know for certain that I'd run out before the game closes. If you'd make better use of 78m ISK, good on you. We're not the same people though.

I have billions of ISK to burn and I don't play enough to do so.

"I do it, therefore you can." I'm pretty sure that's a logical fallacy, not to mention that you didn't reciprocate all of my points.

There are still some lurking variables. Such as the fact that you have limitless ISK, or you get better matches, or your gungame is better than mine. I'm a good player, but not a great one.

The point is, I'm aware of how my choice of suits affects my wallet, and I know for certain that I'd run out before the game closes. If you'd make better use of 78m ISK, good on you. We're not the same people though.

OK, but this is nothing to do with the MLT wearing blues, who probably are noobs anyway. This is to do with the fact you run solo, as do I.

I worked out some time ago that matchmaking has an insidious facet to it. Someone in CCP thought it was a good idea to put all the available squads on the same side first, probably so gangs of squads could team up. Then the rest of that side and the other side are filled with solos.

The result you get is one side populated with stomper gangs and the other populated with solos and noobs. If there's enough squads, both sides will have them but one side always seems to have more and dominate. The other problem is the way teams of noobs and solos are sent against teams of proto squads rather than other noobs.

This is a matchmaking problem, Ydubbs, not a problem of people running BPOs instead of proto.

I have 20m SP and over 190m ISK! But there are other things to spend SP on than suits! I focussed on core skills pretty early. Being an EvE player I understand that core skills are the important ones for EVERY suit you run. So my core skills and weapon skills, which are the ones essential for fitting ANY suit are very good - then there is the fact that there are so many different types of suits. I have level 3 in all Caldari Assault, Logistics, Scout, Sentinel and Commando.

At least I've specialised in one race. You're talking about specialising in one suit!! How do you even know which suit to specialise in until you get good enough with them to work that out? To do that you have to have at least ADV skills. I'm only now working on getting Assault, Logistics and Scout to level 5. I can run State ck.0 suits with lvl 3 of each type but that necessarily means my bonuses will be down.

You seem to make a lot of assumptions with your tirade against BPOs. Based on another of your posts, you want everyone wearing proto gear so your team will have proto gear. But that's just not going to happen, because of flaws in matchmaking. While there are noobs, running solo will put you in teams of noobs and they don't have the proto gear you want them to. Get over it.

This is why I love my Rasetsu, Hawk and now my Kampo (I finally got one in exchange for the Shogun I really shouldn't have bought).

I love running these suits because they're good enough for purpose without dying before I have a chance to do anything, and they're free, so I don't have to worry about losing suits.

And I find the Medic - CA is still the best MLT suit I have for both speed and weapons - again, because of that Militia MAGSEC! :)

Edit: People who think fighting in the most expensive suit is the only way to go are missing an important point. Militia gear is actually quite good, if you learn to use it right. It's not the best, but it's still powerful enough to do the job.

In NO situation is MLT ever better than proto.

Not true, militia is better than proto when your team is being redlined, because you can literally die 20 times but still make a profit, which is not possible in a proto suit.

lol people still play Dust

lol people still play Dust

Not true, militia is better than proto when your team is being redlined, because you can literally die 20 times but still make a profit, which is not possible in a proto suit.

what are you saying? that the guys running MLT has the same chance as guys running proto? There are scrubs on both sides of every match. The team that has 8 guys going 2-50 is probably running MLT.

You have a point...these guys are probably scrubs anyway but they'll stand a better chance vs the other team's scrubs with better gear.

You're an EVE player? Nuff said.

In NO situation is MLT ever better than proto.

why is profit still a motivating factor at this point? Stop saving your ISK..nothing will be transferred over to any game that CCP makes after Dust.

And if you're getting redlined, proto is still better. Because if you're thinking of sneaking behind the enemy, then you have more space to fit cloaks, drop uplinks, scanners, codebreakers (if you're trying to speed hack the objective), etc. You have a better chance of winning 1v1s with guys hanging out not on the redline. Plus, you can fit stronger weapons and mods to kill people faster because you don't have time to dance with everyone when you don't have a team behind you.

why is profit still a motivating factor at this point? Stop saving your ISK..nothing will be transferred over to any game that CCP makes after Dust.

And if you're getting redlined, proto is still better. Because if you're thinking of sneaking behind the enemy, then you have more space to fit cloaks, drop uplinks, scanners, codebreakers (if you're trying to speed hack the objective), etc. You have a better chance of winning 1v1s with guys hanging out not on the redline. Plus, you can fit stronger weapons and mods to kill people faster because you don't have time to dance with everyone when you don't have a team behind you.

^ what he said.

or any suit that's not at least proto at this time are just tools. There is no reason to stack or save ISK. There is no reason to only use proto or officer in pc matches. Burn them all in pubs, get 1.5M ISK payouts until you run out and then quit the game.

The only ones I can understand still bringing out adv gear or lower are those that for some reason can't afford to run proto all day. If you have 30M ISK or more, you should be running proto and officer gear. If you are low on ISK, I will send you some. I have billions of ISK to burn and I don't play enough to do so.

why is profit still a motivating factor at this point? Stop saving your ISK..nothing will be transferred over to any game that CCP makes after Dust.

And if you're getting redlined, proto is still better. Because if you're thinking of sneaking behind the enemy, then you have more space to fit cloaks, drop uplinks, scanners, codebreakers (if you're trying to speed hack the objective), etc. You have a better chance of winning 1v1s with guys hanging out not on the redline. Plus, you can fit stronger weapons and mods to kill people faster because you don't have time to dance with everyone when you don't have a team behind you.