Gear costs money. Use expensive gear and die, make less money. A player needs to be able to look at the payout available for a particular match and figure out how much ISK to risk in the battle. Don't bring a suit into a training match that costs more than you'll make for winning the match, and then act surprised when you end up ISK negative. Sure cost/reward doesn't scale on a 1:1 basis, but no one is making any compelling arguments for why it SHOULD beyond "I want to use prototype gear all the time, even in high sec space against noobs learning to play the game".

Again, this is basing all calculations off of pubstomping in high sec instant battles. If instant battles are where players who have access to proto gear are hanging out, this game is ****** before it gets started and your AFK concerns are the least of our worries.

You brought that tank to WIN, to SP farm, and/or maybe patch up your KDR, not to gain ISK.

Reread the OP, this isn't the argument.

The OP is arguing that dying more shouldn't COST more.

Sure, if you want to make 150,000 ISK, you can afk in high sec instant battles. You're playing for a tiny contract that is there so new players can make a little scratch to buy a couple of skill books before venturing forth into the "real game". You guys are just looking at things backwards. You're arguing FOR being able to make good ISK in the lowest risk area of the game, rather than incentivizing players to move out into the universe and actually participating in the emergent gameplay.

Not at all. Make ISK by using cheap gear to minimize the amount of money lose if you die. Win by using expensive gear to maximize your chances for victory. The gambling only comes in when you want to earn more ISK than you would in your cheap gear, and the solution is to not lose your expensive gear. If you can't earn more ISK than you would by farming in the MCC; use cheap gear or get better. There is no problem here.

no you don't make anywhere near as much... you get a max of around 150k isk on a very very long skirmish where I continuously use 'raven' type-1 assaults, with an 'exile' and a 'toxin' with all blue print milita modules and equipment (the suit costs 0 isk) and still carry a 5+ k/d and make 300-400 thousand isk an Ambush which lasts around 10 mins.

AFK is a good way to farm SP however it is very inefficient for farming isk. You would have to run AFK matches well after you capped out just to reach a 2-3 million isk profit per week, which is really just pocket change.

In the game mode designed for new players to make tiny chunks of ISK to get some basic gear, I see absolutely no problem with this scenario. Sure, it can be used by the uber-lazy to afk farm trivial amounts of ISK, but the alternative is making the system even HARDER for brand new players to make some starting cash.

There is ZERO reason to create incentive for experienced players to use END GAME gear against new players in the starting area of the game.

poor as* try hard trying to be good at making isk.
just go afk on the mcc

That's complete BS. The correct order is
1. using proto without dying, and or being reaaly good with less expenive gear
2. doing relativly well in free gear
3. Proto gear without dying more than once, unless you're a heavy
4. getting a ****** score in free gear
5. AFKing
6. using gear that you don't have the skills to run.