Stormy Geddon
Imperfects
Negative-Feedback
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Posted - 2013.01.13 21:25:00 -
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It seems the main argument for another wipe is that not doing it will chase away new players. This argument assumes new players will come in and be getting stopped by people with a couple million or so more skill points game after game. There are a couple flaws in this assumption.
1st: The new guys are going to outnumber the beta testers by a huge amount, hopefully. This means that most games at any given moment won't have any of us in them.
2nd: They have said that the matching system is based on skill, but the community isn't big enough for it to work very well yet. Once more people are playing, the skill matching will null out a lot of the newb stomping.
3rd: After a month or so, what is the real difference in a couple million SP? It is the difference between the new guy having his dropsuit and weapon proficiency at level 4 and the vet having his at level 5 (Level 5 dropsuit skill = 1,243,680 SP and Level 5 Proficiency skill = 777,300 SP which adds up to 2,020,980 SP). With all the QQing about the flattening of weapons making militia guns only slightly weaker than prototype, it is silly to say that prototype is a huge advantage over advanced.
Despite all the complaining, what will really happen is the new guys will spend most of their time fighting other new guys and not notice that some of us have better gear. They will play matches against other new guys who will go 30 - 2 with starter fits because there are people out there who are just that good. When they fight us and we do that, they will mostly just think we are that good. Of course many will flip out that every time they die it was because some beta tester "knew about some exploit" or "they were cheating." That happens in every game... Ever. I don't know how many closed beta testers there are, but I bet Goonswarm has more players than all of Dust has in the beta right now, and that's just one EVE alliance. I'm guessing they are targeting larger numbers for this game than for EVE, so we beta testers will be a small part of the overall community.
In summary, stop trying to spread my SP wealth to all the new players. I earned my SP head start by testing a game that was at times very, very frustrating, so back the F$%# off my SP, commie. |