strafing is important,

Here's the problem with that, though:

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.

So what happens then?

They get frustrated by getting fragged left and right, and quit?
They AFK in matches to get payouts and skills, while not contributing to the match and making the game better?
They go red-line sniper, in an effort to save ISK?

How does the top 5% curb-stomping the other 95% of the playerbase make the game healthy?

The thing that really gets me about strafing is how one can strafe back n forth in front of my HMG at a range of about 10 - 15 meters and take NO DAMAGE!!!!!

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.

I primarly play with proto gear all the time and i also never avoid a good 1(me) vs 4 or 6 these days when it presents itself.
And i can and have been able to fund protogear all the time without ever dipping lower in my ISK pool at the end of the day (i run solo, well i team up from time to time but we mostly are solo playing in a team)

When i swap to my alt, with 500k sp for some trialruns, i dont really perform allot less with nearly half my HP pool even crossing protosuits.

At the end of the day its the player, not the suit, the suit just amplefies whats inside of it, if its good with Militia gear, its better, if its awsome its super awesome, if its crap-tastic, it might be mediocre when using a proto.

Good still beats Mediocre any time of day.




Its called terrible aim, by playing more, you can learn to get better, some of us have only been doing FPS games for 20 years, we might have a lead on you.

If CCP doesn't want people to rock proto all the time and keep it as their "sunday best" ISK cannot be the only barrier for use after they've earned up enough SP to use them.


Money barriers are completely worthless as something to discourage active use, since players will always find a way to afford the best stuff.


Honestly, I'd love to see some kind of system that had people pick and choose what gear they bring. Maybe the 'goo' our gear is made up of has a finite supply allocated for each battle, and using proto gear uses up a large amount of that supply? I dunno.
I've got mixed feelings on it. On one hand, I like that one can progress and use the top tier all the time after they've earned it. On the other, I think it makes things kind of boring to know that after a certain point, everyone's going to be rocking proto suits all the time.

This. I always laugh when i kill a Guy in proto armor with my standard gear.
So many isk wasted.

Well, I think the militaries of the world need to work on this since it is so very very important.

Seriously though, I disagree, strafing is just some dumb **** that caught on cause some little ADHD kid who missed his meds did it in a match in the early days of FPS and then everyone started doing it because he had a lucky match while running around jiggling like some parkinsons patient "THE DOCTORS SAY I HAVE ADHD, I CALL IT GUNGAME!!!!!!"

Looks stupid too.