Poor players will blow though all that isk quickly enough.

Poor players will blow though all that isk quickly enough.

CCP has already said they intend to implement a player-player market within DUST, and eventually link it to eve, but that they're doing it slowly and carefully. I doubt they're going to be swayed to speed it up by us, so that's not going to help the proto pubstomping any time soon.

I think upping the ante for FW matches might be a better, or at least far more expedient solution. Offering something other than Skirmish in FW, too...

We need bigger ISK sinks

And we want our ISK to go to NPCs and not other players why exactly?

Give free vehicle skills to the richer players and watch their wallets drain.

Weaker players (not just poor players... average players too) cannot compete UNLESS they also go proto... meaning that they will bankrupt themselves trying to keep pace, then be stuck using advanced or basic gear... where they will get their kittens handed to them even more.

The isk conversion was a bit excessive. I had something like 245mil, and now I have several stacks of 500+ proto builds ...What's worse is that I really-really want to use up my D.T.ARs before they nerf them.

The situation isn't so dire, because there could be a random collection of unlikely heroes (Ahrendee Mercenaries) who can rally the n00bs for a comeback assault. The coms action plays out something like this, "there's a bunch of drunken idiots running around the base in protosuits (me) and they're just good enough to beat my level 3 gear..." That's where the hero in you perks up - you know you can afford to end their foolish pub-stomp - and so, for the good of all, you turn the tide with your own 170K fits

As a omni soldier I know that gear (quality) doesn't make the soldier.

Blueberries generally retreat to the redline and don't come back out, once all the points go red or the kills start to be too one-sided. In squads from 4-6, us RND guys (Ahrendee) will push to grab one point... or perhaps drop an uplink or two.... and end up playing 5 vs 16, because the blueberries have given up. We get swarmed, killed, our spawn points get popped, camped or rehacked.... and we're back to spawning behind the red line. We've just lost our try-hard proto gear... and the blueberries are sniping, hiding, or washing the bay in the MCC.

Only slightly, I still kill idiots with my milita weapons because they don't know how to strafe or they run out in the open. Just the amount of bullets it requires to kill them slightly increases.

lol the blueberries has given up as soon as they touch the power button on the PS3.

While I'm happy to bust out my cape, tights and ring of power, the fact is this:

Blueberries generally retreat to the redline and don't come back out, once all the points go red or the kills start to be too one-sided. In squads from 4-6, us RND guys (Ahrendee) will push to grab one point... or perhaps drop an uplink or two.... and end up playing 5 vs 16, because the blueberries have given up. We get swarmed, killed, our spawn points get popped, camped or rehacked.... and we're back to spawning behind the red line. We've just lost our try-hard proto gear... and the blueberries are sniping, hiding, or washing the bay in the MCC.


Now, everyone will get redlined every now and then, but I think all can agree that the most fun matches are the evenly matched ones.... where you're winning by less than 5 clones, or are neck-and-neck on the MCC's hp.... redline blowouts suck for both teams.... just they suck a little less for the winners... but they still suck.

Only slightly, I still kill idiots with my milita weapons because they don't know how to strafe or they run out in the open. Just the amount of bullets it requires to kill them slightly increases.

How do you know that they don't know how to strafe? Maybe they are just boycotting strafing. It is possible.