Speaking from my experience with the 2.0 build, running a vehicle requires most of your SP going towards that vehicle(same as any class), i.e. the HAV. Meaning, that was my primary class, I had no infantry fittings worth running because I couldn't afford the SP cost to unlock them. Now that everything is so expensive and we are apparently making less ISK/SP, specializing in vehicles (HAVs in particular) is pointless and damn near impossible. The turret tracking speed has been essentially cut in half, the marauders have lost their damage modifier, all of the modules cost WAY more as well as the HAV itself, and to top it off the militia HAVs aren't BPO anymore, meaning if you lose all of your good tanks you have to spend over 100,000 ISK on a paper tank that disappears when it's destroyed, so you don't have anything to fall back on(except the starter dropsuits).

So what is the point of having vehicles in the game if you are going to make it so difficult to actually use them? That was one of the cool things about the last build, a match could go from being a plain old shooter to being a full blown battlefield with tanks and air support in a matter of seconds. Losing a vehicle wasn't as big of a deal because they didn't cost over a million ISK a piece. Now it would be well over 2mil ISK to run a well fit Sagaris. What's the point? What incentive does anyone have to even unlock them when you have to play on foot for days to make up the cost of losing one. What's the point when it also means you are making yourself less effective on foot by spending the SP to unlock the necessary skills for HAVs?

And before the trolls kick in and start bitching about my post. Have you noticed that ALL of the high end gear is ridiculously expensive now? How do you plan on supporting your proto gear now (I know you guys used these in the last build)? I'm not saying that a marauder needs to be invincible or anything, just make stuff cheaper, yes, even the annoying forge guns.

The way this game is going now, it seems as if most people will be spending most of their time running around in starter gear just to be able to afford one or 2 games with the good stuff equipped. I know that supposedly when you start using higher end stuff you start making more ISK, but considering how little I am making now, I don't expect the amounts I'd be making later to be enough to sustain high end gear. Unless you are just that good that you never die. So in that sense, the people who aren't omnipotent gamers will be essentially forced to use starter gear. I can't think of anything that would make this game less fun than having to constantly go back to newbie gear.

At this rate, this game will be more like HALO than the awesome MMO it could be.