Lasarte Ioni
Noob Gaming
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Posted - 2012.09.29 14:40:00 -
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wow, i love how ppl talk about contracts like if this was real life contracts or something. Let me explain why this suggestion isn't viable from the 2 perspectives; game side and RL side:
Gaming side:
A quick-battle chat log:
Quote:
"OMG, we're gonna lose this, **** this **** i'm out"
-n00biekitten has disconnected-
-poorguy has connected-
"wuuuut??? wtf is this ****, it's sooooo lost, i ain't even trying"
-poorguy has disconnected-....
And so on. You could like it first (if you are in the winning team), but after a whole evening of 16 vs 5, it may become boring (if you have some competitive spirit)
Also, it would be almost fair if the ?contractor? would give you the equipment, but as it is now, would you play to lose isk? (atm militia is free, but I've heard that, when the game goes gold militial will be bpc's with a very low price (few 100's isk)
RL side:
*Note: i think it's stupid comparing a game with reality, but since a lot of ppl are using reality as an argument, here it goes.
Nobody EVER does a job BEFORE getting the money or a part of it or at least having a contract telling they will get some no matter what, you are not wasting time and resources, just to fail and hear the hiring guy telling you: "ohh so bad, well, no money for you, i'm gonna hire some other ppl and offer them YOUR money"
*This also has gaming balancing issues; a successful defender loses money each time he holds a district, while the attacker will only lose money when he actually wins (thats like.. SO fair...) *
Last, a soldier gets paid for his time on duty (i don't know if some bonus for deployment) a mercenary is a soldier, that self-maintains himself (meaning the army doesn't pay his equipment or training) which means he's usually more affordable than a soldier or has better training. Now, imagine you only get paid for winning a battle: What is winning? make the enemy retreat, not losing a building, capture that rebel leader? getting into a fight that you know nothing of, getting only paid if you "win" is inviting other ppl to scam you.
tl;dr: NOBODY does nothing (even losing) for free, if you feel bad about losing, return the isk to your contractor and put it in your BIO, you'll get contracted by in no time (and maybe not all of them scammers) |