Severus Smith
ZionTCD
Legacy Rising
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Posted - 2012.08.17 19:49:00 -
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Dante Daedrik wrote:Granted in EVE you dont constantly respawn in your shiny ship among enemy forces. Ships in EVE have longer survivability and life expectancy than a dropsuit in Dust and therefor the risk = the reward.
True, you don't respawn under fire. But that Battleship you just lost costs a HELL of a lot more than a proto suit. A standard Tier 2 Battleship hull can run you from 50 million ISK to 75 million ISK. That's 25x the cost of an amazing Proto fit right there and you have a ship with no armor, weapons, shields, or other modules.
Ships in EVE cost a lot. Look at these two links to put it into perspective...
RvB - Red August Killboard
RvB - Blue August Killboard
At this moment, each side has killed roughly 130 Billion ISK worth of ships and modules over the last 17 days. That's 15 Billion ISK of destruction a day. And this is one High Sec alliance fielding smaller, cheaper ships. Going out to null sec there are Capital ships that when lost equal 15 Billion ISK, per ship.
And that's the point I keep trying to make. 1 million ISK is nothing in EVE. It's equivalent to 1 gold in WoW. When you're fighting on a Corporations wallet then you can afford to use Proto gear because a 2 million ISK proto fit is pennies to them. If anything the prices may need to increase so that Corps cant just mandate proto gear for everything.
I understand that a lot of the people complaining about prices are coming from Call of Duty or Battlefield where there isn't an established MMO that will be fueling the economy. So believe us EVE players who know that, if anything, the prices of gear is either fine or too cheap.
If nothing else read this
Militia gear is for throwaway matches like the ones were currently testing in the Beta. Matches where the outcome means absolutely nothing to the scheme of everything. Advanced / Proto gear is for Corp funded matches where losing the fight may mean losing valuable resources or control over a sovereign system. This is where Billions of ISK will be thrown at Dust players to give them every possible advantage on the battlefield. It is those fights where Proto gear will be mandatory, high SP will be mandatory, and winning or losing the match means everything.
Unfortunately those Corp matches don't exist yet so were stuck with these silly throwaway matches where fielding Proto gear is like bringing a $1000 bottle of aged scotch to a frat party. |