Isn't that a simple case of living beyond your means? Every player needs to find a point at which their losses are covered by their income.

You have to keep in mind that ISK payouts will probably be levelled for high-sec contracts.

A good way to split players by level, and to have different ISK payouts based on experience in high-sec contracts would have been some sort of "merc reputation", wich would work a bit like standings in EVE.
Except, merc reputation would evolve based only on number of contracts played, victory, losses etc...

A higher merc reputation would send you in higher bounty contracts. Would avoid :

1) Mixing different level of players
2) Having to find the perfect balance in ISK payouts as more advanced gear players, with more SP, and more battles played would play for higher bounty. Etc.

Truthfully, i agree w/ the second poster, you are living beyond your means. now I'm not a great gun, but if i take my type 2 suit, i know if i die 2-3 times, i need to change my suit b/c i can take a guess that ill be going negative. This IS an aspect ccp has spoken about, that u need to weight what you are doing. Plus if u lose that much in one game, maybe use something less costly] the next game, or make better ingame decisions

From what I've seen, ISK payout increase when you're using low-tier gear and taking out valuable enemy stuff. You get more credit for killing someone with a Militia Sniper Rifle than for the same kill with an Ishukone or something.

Id have to disagree. If you are dying THAT much, you shouldnt be using an expensive suit like that then.

Ccp said, they have it set so people who run proto gear dont use it 24/7 like we have in last few builds.

i take out enough of their HP to know id of won otherwise and let my mate get the easy kill.

With what u are a saying, ud want rewards to cover your losses b/c u died, so lose a 1mil tank, but get 500k reward. Thusly play 1 more game, and u can restock your tank. It shouldnt be that easy. The point of restocking items and worrying about inventory is that u CAN lose money so u cant always restock the amount u lost quickly.

@Sentient Archon,

If you look at the amortization of your payout over the games you played, you will see that you are well paid for your services. Seeing that you played 11 games and you made over 2 million isk, minus the 200K isk lost in the "bad" game you have a net of 1.8 million isk for your game play. Seems to be working correctly to me.

Alldin is special

we will probably see a wipe sometime about a week (or two) after that and god knows what changes are in store for us in the next build.

You and I should hope that the market opens up some more.

If you think starting over with the same ISK problem is BS, take a look at the US elections every four years. It's like Deja Vu that never ends.

There's your problem

lol with a fail railgun

You can QQ all you want

The rule is 200k isk is average

The people who are using proto suits are doing it because they are good, in a squad and so are well structured.