Thrillhouse Van Houten
Expert Intervention
Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.03.06 03:34:00 -
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The true starter fits (unlimited militia BPOs in all slots) should be for the chosen class of the player. That would be the "oh crap" fit in the unlikely but incredibly horrific circumstances that a player run entirely out of ISK. Fits made up completely of militia parts are incredibly cheap. Even the worst performance in a public ambush will still net you a good chunk of ISK (unless you define "worst" as 35 deaths...in which case you should just quit playing Dust).
I like the OPs idea of starting with militia fits of all shapes and sizes. Once you use them up, though, you are on your own to hop on the market and buy them yourself.
I like the idea that every single weapon is represented with a small number of militia fits so new players can give everything a try before deciding that they don't like it. The current system forces any player wanting to try mass drivers and laser rifles to pay SP for levels into those skills. There is no reason for that. Militia variants of either of those things could exist with reduced stats, clips, cooling, AoE, RoF or any combination thereof. Why not?
As far as militia variants being nearly as strong as their standard counter-parts...that might be a little too true, at least of weapons. It seems like many militia modules are either significantly more crappy or use an abundance more CPU/PG. Militia weapons don't need a "nerf" in the classic sense but could use a little tweaking to encourage the purchase of both standard level weapons and the skills needed to use them.
The VR suite idea has merit, but they would still have to leave some kind of cheap gear on the market in case people run out of money. I think it'd be better to just have a "limited engagement ambush/skirmish" for people between 500k SP and 1mil SP or 1.25mil or something. Lower SP and ISK rewards but better chance to perform against other new people of relative skill levels. New people would still gain money and skills while playing (and not be penalized for being new) and vets wouldn't be tempted to hop into VR to "try new things" on nights where they get bored and terrorize newbies since we all know it would happen |