Zero Harpuia
WarRavens
Orion Empire
450
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Posted - 2013.05.13 19:00:00 -
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I've driven HAVs and been driven mad by them. I won't whine about them being Overpowered, nor shall I be upset at them being Underpowered, that isn't why I'm here. But watch the comments be filled with people who thought that anyway because those words are in the OP. I'm here to discuss something which has chafed me about some of you spoilt rotten tanker asshats. First, a qualifier, not all tankers are spoilt rotten and/or asshats, only those who meet the following condition, but watch the comments fill up with people commenting about THAT as well. I have championed this idea alone for the better part of Chromosome, but no one listened so I gave up... until I saw a thread about a tanker crying over losing one tank. Some tank pilots don't seem to understand that tanks are indeed expensive. They are like that for a reason. YOU ARE NOT. SUPPOSED. TO BUY. A BLOODY TANK. ON YOUR OWN DIME. What MORON thinks that? The tank price point is set so that the corporation gives money to its vehicle pilots to fit and prep their vehicles. If you aren't part of a corporation, you do not have any business being in a vehicle, much less a tank. If you ARE in a corporation and they are not footing the bill for the chassis and budgeting for a full set of mods, then you are in a stupid and shortsighted corporation. In EVE, you do not build a Capital or Supercapital by yourself, and by yourself you can do fuckall with it. This is the same idea on a smaller scale, so please, HAV pilots, whine to your CEO before you whine to CCP about the price point of HAVs.
Qualifier: If corporations cannot give money yet in this build, then that is something CCP needs to fix pronto to shut up these whiny HAV fellows. There are enough VALID things to discuss about the Over/Underpoweredness of HAVs without people who don't have corp support crying over not having corp support. |
Zero Harpuia
WarRavens
Orion Empire
454
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Posted - 2013.05.14 02:23:00 -
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Jason Pearson wrote:I would not expect my corpmates to pay for me to play as my role in a public match, unfortunately there have been times when I've had to accept money off corpmates, and I'm thankful they were generous enough to donate so that I could actually enjoy myself in the game
A Corp Battle is different, some corporations are generous enough to cover the losses of their vehicle players, but some are not.
This is exactly what I am getting at. Calling in a tank to a random pub match in the coming days, now that random pub matches are not the only thing in the game, will be an unwise investment. When it comes to corporation or other greater battles, the tankers should be reimbursed by the corp they are doing mercenary work for. There is a huge difference between slamming your expensive tech into a field of randoms until it pops and using it to defend the monetary interests of the corporation. If you have the dime to fund your own tanks, that is well and dandy but also doesn't give you the right to whine about the cost of a vehicle as 'too much.' An idiom in EVE is 'do not fly what you cannot afford to lose' and that fits here to a tee. If you can't afford a tank, it isn't the tank's fault for being too expensive.
Anyway, the whole thread was just to vent and I meant nothing against tankers that tank silently and understand the economics of their hulks of steel. The idiots that think they should be able to just keep rolling in tanks as fast as a militia dropsuit dies, however, just... RANDOM ANGRY NOISES! Yaknow? |