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J Lav
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Posted - 2013.03.02 13:34:00 -
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At the start of a match, the risk of bringing in good equipment and fits is rather neutral. As the match goes on, and you see your team being slaughtered, the risk increases dramatically. The winning team on the other hand has the risk deflate significantly. So as the team loses, they use cheaper gear, and the winning team uses better gear. As a team is winning, it gets easier to win by cornering the loser, and as you're losing it gets harder to survive. This is a sliding scale of risk vs reward where it quickly becomes far too much risk for far too little reward.
My question is this, how do you break from this? My team is redlined, and I bring in a dropship or a tank, I'm sure as heck not bringing in my best because the risk is too high and the compensation guaranteed to be too low. Not to mention the plethora of free orbitals that wipe out your entire team every few minutes.
Is this a reflection of the lack of incentive to win? Is there some way to break your team out of the dumps? |
J Lav
Lost-Legion
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Posted - 2013.03.03 23:55:00 -
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See now I actually found that an interesting read. It kind of underlines the issue I'm starting to have with this game. It seems the only point of playing is to earn more ISK and SP, so that I can afford to run a fit/vehicle every-so-often to just troll around having fun. The only competition that exists then in a pub match is with other players on your own team, to earn the most ISK by being the best on your team. I actually had someone on my team take out my tank with theirs, assumably so that they could do better than me on the scoreboard, earning more ISK. Now maybe they're just a Troll, or plain stupid, which is also a possibility, but I have to admit that the system rewards friendly fire. By putting your own players out, you knock them lower on the pay register.
I hope this improves with full release, if Friendly Fire came in right now, the need to shoot enemies would cease to exist, and I'd spend half my time culling the traitors from my own team. |
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