the answer to boosting via game play never heard of a merc getting paid for losing .
why should i and my team get paid SP & ISK + salvage for losing a battle badly.?
If the stakes were higher people would be more inclined to play the game as intended.
losers should feel the pain of losing not get rewarded for it.
this won't fix everything but will go a long way.

get the game play going ccp

Ok how about, you lose, you get no ISK no salvage but you can have the same SP.

I really don't get why some of you think losers should recieve the same rewards as the victors ?.

LOL, could you imagine telling a real life merc that you didn't like the way he did his job so your not paying? i imagine the next thing you hear is the sound of a weapon being drawn.

you're kidding right? so you hire a merc to do a job. say protect a space station or manufacturing facility. so then it gets blown all to hell...remind me what you'd be paying him for again?

for trying? Yoda told me a loooont time ago "there is not try"...

DO OR DO NOT.

No win, no fee. 25% less SP and absolutely no salvage. this isnt Call of Dummy....

People that have these you shouldn't be paid if you lose opinions apparently don't live in the same world the rest of us do. I really gotta talk to my travel agent about going to happy world land.

Let's look at this from a real world perspective for a minute. You hire someone to attack anywhere, you're gonna pay them money up front. They aren't gonna go be shot at without some money up front. Now if they lose, naturally you don't have to pay them again because they are dead, and you won't hire them again because they are dead. We don't respawn in real life last time I checked.

Now if they go and "win" whatever scenario you hired them for, you're gonna pay them the rest you agreed upon, or they are liable to kill you as well. So you'll pay, either the money or your life, a true merc doesn't care.

As far as the game goes, if I was running a corp, Id tell you the fee before I agreed to help you, and Id expect half up front. Now since we respawn in this game, sure I may not expect the other half if we lose, but yeah you're at least gonna pay half. I assume most corps will take this stance or a similar one. Because regardless of winning or losing, Im still spending money fighting for you. So you got to at least cover those initial losses. That just makes sense.

So no the losers should still gain isk even though they lost, but they shouldn't receive as much as the winning team. Simple as that, now as for salvage I don't really care who gets that, and SP should be on an individual basis.