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I'm glad you make it clear through your name and corp name that this is a public relations tool of rhetoric! Because the argument is blindingly stupid, for two reasons:
* Lose one proto suit with expensive gear means lose almost your entire match's profits -- you'll make much more money reliably with a free suit, even if the raw profits per match are lower. Lose one suit, waste the battle's profits.
* The teeny amounts of isk we currently make from battles will pale in comparison to the ISK that will be made when the EVE/Dust link is increased -- particularly when other modes of Dust income (e.g., district control) are raised to be more in line with current ISK making activities in EVE

Even if they introduce a 50% tax rate to transfer money from EVE to Dust, you'll still have your paltry pub battle isk outclassed in no time.

But I understand that your OP was all about the fun of rhetoric and propaganda that helps makes EVE Online the kind of universe it is. But at least try to make your rhetoric sound half believable.

There is no such flaw. It only takes one death before running full-proto (or even partial proto) begins to seriously compare unfavourably to a freebie suit. And saying "some of our leet so exceedingly rare it is almost never" sounds like it is implying "only some of our very best players almost never die". Which means most of your players do need to face the reality of averaging one or more deaths per battle where gear is lost.

Maybe that's the truth -- by having ALL your players run lots of proto, some of your best players are able to manage not dying much (having support and all that). So that the rare few in your corp are profiting off the sacrifices of lesser players in your corp.

And my second point, about ISK income sources, stands firm too :)

And that is why I like grenades and forge guns.

Now you've changed from your original claim. Now you're trying to suggest to me that most matches most of your players don't lose a suit when running proto. Is that what you're really claiming? I find it interesting how you've had to make a stronger claim than you did originally to escape my point, but without admitting that you've changed your claim at all. Let's settle on what it is exactly that you're claiming first, before we move on in the conversation:
Is your claim that most matches most of your players lose nothing when running proto?

NB. I am not claiming that running free suits is the best way to make isk. My point was about the pathetic argument in the OP claiming that proto squads is the best way. Seems to me that full proto in an organised group and freebie suits are roughly on par. And the pathetic isk we make in pub battles anyway is peanuts compared to the *real* profits that are yet to come. Enjoy your personal wealth of 100 mil or whatever it is you could have made by now. Won't matter once ISK transfer is in, so why the urgency to make ISK? Or are you telling me you guys haven't played EVE, so you need to live off these scraps? All these things you and the OP say are just excuses to "pub stomp", and weak excuses at that.

And a further note, it's going to be better for your player skill to do pub matches in weaker suits than proto suits. Think of how much better you'll be as a player if you can dominate when you have inferior equipment to your enemy. So freebie/cheap suits = roughly same isk made, AND better practice.

Overall, the arguments in favour of pub stomping are stupid, and come down to only one argument that could be considered reasonable: it's fun for me to pub stomp with proto gear, because I like to dominate, so nyah and suck it up (we all like to win, don't we?). Forget all these other excuses about "better for making isk" or whatever.

I don't know where you got the idea that I play (and enjoy playing) in militia gear. Did that claim feature in my argument somewhere as a premise? Is it relevant to the discussion?

I don't see the value in waving around eve-peen. I just don't like stupid arguments like the one in the OP (and I'm a sucker for engaging in arguments).

Also, I agree that practicing in proto gear is helpful! But running proto all the time mostly against players who don't can only make you weaker than those players that practice in both proto and when they're outclassed. I can't see how you could believe otherwise.

LOL no.

As one of those rich capsuleers, I can tell you we don't care much about 'the best'. If the enemy decides to hire 'the best' then those battles will be fought by random corps, hell I'd roll with alt accounts doing LAV destruction derby or just run around trying to hide from reds.

The alliance that spent all that ISK on hiring 'the best' would pay out their nose for a few mercs, while 'the bestest' self-absorbed stat conscious overachievers would be out of a proper battle. (BTW, don't doubt they would do this, considering the utter tedium we eve players expose ourselves to in the name of sov warfare)

And while this is going on, the smart alliance hires lots and lots of mercs on the cheap to do battle across every enemy system.