Kleanur Guy
SyNergy Gaming
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Posted - 2012.08.17 08:38:00 -
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To all the people that say 'use militia gear!' you obviously have no idea what your saying. I understand what your saying OP. The 'end game' in a lot of games are very hard to get right, especially when one guy gets a lot of other people to feed items to him (not the case in dust though). CCP has said that Dust Mercs are reckless with their lives, they know they are going to be respawned again and so don't care how much pain they go through in the one they are in now. They are reckless with their gear. When you think of it, in most games, as the gear gets more expensive, there is very marginal gain. In some games, expensive gear is simply so you can kill more people than you could with the one previously. This could be used tactically, rolling in groups of highly geared, very expensive however a very powerful and unstoppable force.
You also need to think about the amount of money you are sucking off the people you kill. In games where you don't pick up anything when you die, ofcourse both players that die will be in the red, however it is whoever can respawn with the same gear, and kill someone with perhaps a worse fit than before, will be the one on top. I base my profits in most of the games I play, off how much I can take off my opponent, and that's what I think CCP want us to do. If you vs another proto suiter much like yourself, and your better/have a better fit and kill him the next 3 times, he won't go back in proto. He would probly come back as advanced making him easier to kill for both you, and less of a threat to your TEAM.
Ofcourse when 2 players in equally fitted suits vs each other in a firefight, one of them knows they are going to die, unless he brings in another person with a 4mil tank (dunno what a good tanks price is havent played in a bit). Now you woud probly expect to take out at least 50 or so people over multiple games with that tank(depending on how many people you have rolling with you) with support. Over those 2 or 3 games, you make about 1 mil ISK from matches, and you just lost a 4mil tank, however of those 50 people you killed, 7 of them were protos, 31 were advanced and the rest were standard or militia. Think of all the money you sucked away from the people you killed. 31x75k advanced fits = 2.3ish mil. 7x200k proto fits is 1.4mil. With this alone you just made 700k EFFECTIVE ISK
I can't stress that word enough, I believe that is what this game's economy will be about, it's not about how much you lose, but about how much your opponent loses. |