xprotoman23 wrote:DUST has two major issues.
1. Too many people use militia gear (Although you might be making money you are drastically reducing your survivability against players using better gear)
2. People don/t know how to build their characters. ( I was playing with a friend of mine earlier and was a bit annoyed he couldn't build his character correctly..) CCP really does need to add an auto skill system for the people who dislike going through menu after menu in order to make their character stronger.
in terms of infantry battle, the only REAL reason as to why people cried things were OP is simply because they run militia gear or they have no idea as to how to fit a character properly. The flattening of not only the weapon damage, but also the dropsuit HP values were completely unwarranted, considering everything was balanced within their specific gear tier as it should have been.
Yea but tbf your corp has had plenty of time to build characters and take them to the proto level. Now i agree with you that the nerfing of proto stuff sucks, but currently there is only one sandbox for everyone to play in, as a result your crew and everyone else who runs tanks and proto gear against everyone else who maybe have a few weeks to a month or 2 in the game simply dont have either the SP or the ISK or both to run at that level with any sustainability.
As a result those new to the game can't compete and their only recourse is to either stop playing or complain. CCP doesnt want them to stop playing each player is additional raw data that helps them make a better analysis of the current game and whatever this arena will ultimately be. Additionally they wanted to see more proto gear run hence the greater payouts.
Im by no means flaming you when i say this but perhaps part of the blame in these nerfs belong with you guys and others who constantly ran proto everything outside of corp battles or against other teams you knew to have proto gear. Im not putting that squarely on your shoulders that belongs to every vet who's been around since E3 and decided to have a feast of all the newbies.
Granted i get it you're bored and their isnt a new playground for you guys yet and thats why it sucks, id probably do the same thing out of sheer boredom too.
Point is once the sandbox opens and there are new avenues for you and everyone else at your SP/ISK level these pub areas wont be a place you guys will want to come because the ISK rewards wont be worth even the loss of a single proto setup. It will be a safe harbor for miltia/std gear to earn their stripes before graduating to the levels of the game where you should be playing at currently but isnt yet available.
To put it another way the ppl whove been around since E3 are now the AP level students being forced to take HS level subjects when they should have already moved on to college by now, except the college is a few months from being constructed so you're stuck.
Granted my view maybe a bit skewed i only have a total of 2 weeks in this game so i dont know what it really was like in codex having only 4 days in that build before chromosome dropped, and now with this new build i definitely dont see the value in graduating.