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Zumari Force Projection
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Posted - 2012.09.10 04:44:00 -
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The difference is in RL, even if they haven't been around a while. A hitman could if they had enough personal funds could easily buy a high end weapon or two. Obviously they would still need to prove themselves to get high paying jobs. That hitman could of formerly been a marine scout sniper, etc. And the gun for hire example doesn't work as most soldiers of fortune are ex military, that chose not to, or couldn't reintegrate with regular society.
In EVE, a veteran or old school players biggest advantage vs a fairly new player is access to more ISK, and, a larger amount of available equipment to use from having more skill points. For all intents and purposes, if you take the two against each other, 1 having 90m sp, and the other having enough to have a given ship class maxed out, with t2 weapons. Even though the vet has more sp, they're going to be fairly evenly matched due to the way the skills in eve work. This is of course if you hand the two of them identically fit ships.
But, Dust isn't a EVE, it's a FPS that uses eves skill tree to effect the way weapons and gear work, to a point.
Some people are right though. More or less Militia gear is equal to Civilian gear in EVE. And you see how many people go around even using civilian fit ships don't ya, for those who've played. Doesn't matter what your flyin, not gonna kill much with civi weapons and mods.
The other side of this is of course, that it seems like for the effect these higher end HAV's and Dropships have on the battlefield. They may be too low in price. Hate to say it, but right now they seem to be an I win button. And due to them being used the way they are, it's making the disparity between new players and vet players worse. Vet players are sticking to HAV's getting huge amounts of kills and new players can barely contribute to their team to earn any SP and ISK to improve their skills. Which means these vets are earning that much more sp/isk than anyone else. I've even tried hopping into a turret on someones tank, when I could catch up to it. Most of the time they were turning and spinning so much I couldn't keep a bead on anyone to get a kill. Another way Dust isn't like EVE is the fact in eve, you set a skill to train, and get sp whether your on or not, or actively using said skill. In Dust you have to fight to get SP, them skills don't level on their own.
Now mind you, I'm someone who's been around eve since late 03. The account with Morikai Acler didn't get made till April 04, after Earth and Beyond wouldn't allow monthly sub anymore, before it closed. I used my own 90m Sp as the example. My PVP trial by fire in EVE was from being a member of the PA through the great northern war, and then all the ones after that lead to the end of the Phoenix alliance. |