Thrillhouse Van Houten
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Posted - 2013.03.15 05:55:00 -
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I'm not exactly an expert (I started about 10 days after the Beta opened) but word is that 3 million-ish SP will pretty much top you out in a given weapon specialty. 4 million will put you in proto suits plus proto weapons with topped out skills. I have 3 million SP and I haven't played religiously (I have maxed out my active SP each week but don't farm 1000 SP ad infinitum after the cap) and don't use boosters. I've spent my skills very erratically but have managed to focus mainly on AR advantaged skills (maybe "wasted" 300k SP or so trying new toys out). Ultimately, if I had focused laser-like on a single given "class" I'd pretty much be there right now.
If I was there, I doubt I'd be doing a whole heck of a lot better than I am already doing. Either way, elite players and elite corps would work me like clay, pound me into a flattened disk and jam me into the kiln to bake until I exploded.
I guess what I am ultimately saying is that SP or not, I'll never play like those guys. I'm just not that good at ANY shooter or PvP game. I do alright...I'm just not that good and never will be. Maybe they are just that freaking good and you are losing to the better men? Bite off a chunk of what you can chew and you won't feel like you're hopelessly pushing a boulder up a hill.
That's all well and good. I agree with Goric...CCP badly needs to get their **** wired and set up a matchmaking system that addresses meta levels in both SP and proto gear... |
Thrillhouse Van Houten
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Posted - 2013.03.16 08:42:00 -
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Bojo The Mighty wrote:iLLMaTiC619 wrote:
yea my corp is small we have like 35 but only a handful are active but we put up a good fight. We have tanks, dropships and pretty good gear.. no proto suits but pretty good gear. I think the point is to make game balancing better. It sucks that you play with noobs while the other team is full of Zion, Imp, Beta max etc..
They should make a new players room for them to learn the game or do something to make it more even. yea a new SP cap would be cool, I try to invest wisely now that I know how I want to build my merc and wished I did so with my current merc I only use one I don't use a million other mercs on different accounts. I look forward to the future of this game and see what is next.
Umm no an SP Respec would not help your corp. You're thinking that Proto gear would help but you'd be wrong. It's coordination. Why is that SyNergy or STB or any big name corp efficiently stomp in the pub matches? They do it with coordination and secure investing. This is capitalism, survival of the fittist. Get wise or die is all that can be said.
I disagree that proto gear wouldn't help him...but I do agree that coordination trumps awesome gear. The aforementioned "aweseomesauce" corps don't stomp because they roll proto gear (I doubt it hurts), they stomp because they roll together in tight squads who each know what they are doing individually AND their responsibilities within the squad.
He is at 3.7 million SP...he should be able to get a hold on some types of proto gear anyways. I can use proto ARs, injectors and hives and I've only got 2.8 million SP. Not the point...
Darwinism is great and all...but this is still a game. I'm not some casual player whiner that wants to kick the asses off of hardcore gun-game masters of the universe every time we face off, but I shouldn't be weeping softly in a corner with a pillow over my face either. It is not only a game, but a MMORPGFPS. MMOs are pretty lame when there is only 15k people sticking around to play them due to poor development choices. Dust WILL NOT SURVIVE if its population isn't big enough to support full integration with Eve. This game NEEDS players. If all the "haves" take a "Get wise or die..." philosophy because they are king of the hill now, then the "have nots" will do what any reasonable person would do...they'll leave.
I'm not saying that CCP should cripple good players at all. They NEED to institute a stratified matchmaking system that pits players against other players who are roughly their skill level. Some combination of total SP, WP/game, KDR and meta level of fittings or all of the above. The second they do...no more qq threads (reasonable qq threads, at least) about getting pubstomped 5 matches to every 1 where a person feels like they did bugger all.
At the end of the day, you can't just say "Get wise or die..." because there are many people who may just suck at FPS games, or suck at small group tactics...or just suck at everything. I am above average (I end most matches in the top 3 on my team) but, personally, I know I'll never be as good as many of those elite guys regardless of my SP count, gear, tactics or even luck. Even when I've got my game going at top echelon I end the match 21/3...not 34/1 like these killing machines. Should guys like me just not play Dust, then? |