My most expensive suit is 6k ISK. But my average death costs my 1M ISK. The life of a tanker.

Ok I run with a suit that costs 70k a pop pretty exclusivly and still have over 35 mil in isk. How much do you people have saved up running only BPO or supper cheap fits?

My most expensive suit is 6k ISK. But my average death costs my 1M ISK. The life of a tanker.

All you cheap a-holes kill the game. But I enjoy destroying you in A-Series.

Yea i used to think this way too, but honestly what do you need to horde all that money for. Unless you are running solo for the entirety of your merc career merc corps can generate more isk for your losses than you ever could using BPO's.

After 20-30 millions i stopped with my STD BPO suit, Now i use suits that costs b/w 50-75K ISK and i still use BPO equipment on my logi so that number will only increase.

You know what i may die 3-5 times in a match if im really playing badly guess what though, i'll still only lose 2 suits why? Because im even more cautious about respawning back in, im more patient and more likely to get revived and keep the suit.

Moreover for those of us that were here the days before reset prior to open beta know that ISK rewards went through the roof because more expesive gear was being used and ultimately lost. It's for this reason the flattening that CCP did on the suits/weapons/equip etc to bring std closer to adv and proto closer to adv has made militia so viable since many of the games equipment and weaponry have the EXACT same STATS as STD gear but simply run higher CPU/PG cost. Obviously the militia suits are a minor exception as there can be no denying the benefit of a std suit over militia. But really the flattening of stuff is what has led to this.

Of course players are going to try to get the best competitive edge at the cheapest cost thats just good financial management of your toon. Point is beyond a certain ISK amount there really is no need to run cheap gear, at least run expensive gear and then switch to cheap stuff if the cost gets too high in a match for you.


Point is, if more and more people used expensive gear and were more prone to DESTROYING STUFF(CRU's, Supply Depots, TANKS!!!!, LAVs etc etc etc) the ISK rewards are higher and higher and higeher. TO my previous point about expensive gear before the wipe, we had people earning near a million ISK per game because of the amount of ISK loss.

PROTIP: Hit the restock option on your suits to see what the total cost of each fitting you have is. Now use the rename function to add that into the name so you know exactly how much each suit is costing you each time you use it.


Edit-- I have 35 million and i have lost tanks costing b/w 380-455K isk multiple times in a single match, you just need to learn how to grind for isk and where to do it and learn that better gear is a game changer in terms of performance(unless you suck than really no amount of gear will help you.)

Right there with you Noc

Pretty safe to say that any tanker won't have more then 10 mil saved up at any one time, especially once we get into the 2mil+ tanks