Pro'fane
RestlessSpirits
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Posted - 2013.05.22 12:06:00 -
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gil pilferer wrote:
As an eve player this is my exact approach to the game and maybe the reason why I can't understand people complaining about being killed by protos. I die to them too but it doesn't bother me so long as I'm winning the isk war (the only war IMO). It would help if this was the stat that popped up at the end of the match rather than kdr, it showed isk spent vs isk destroyed
Eh, it's not about ISK. If it were, you'd never see a proto on the field. It's about KDR, specifically because that's what determines the match. Did your team's KDR beat the others team's KDR?
I hate the matchmaking. I play primarily between midnight and server maintenance, which means I spend a fair amount of time in small squads and in no-squad games. I routinely end up in matches where one side has two or three squads of high-level clan members, most rocking proto, and my side has me, maybe two other vets and a bunch of randoms with neither clan, squad nor gear. I might die less than the newbies, but it's no less frustrating to lose a game to shoddy matchmaking.
And yeah, I've had a lot of friends check this game out briefly and leave. Most of them left because losing on a constant basis isn't fun in any sense of the word. It's like trying to solve a Rubik's Cube while colorblind.
Someone in my clan, maybe chuck, suggested having options for gear-specific matches. Rather than just banning proto gear, simply have an option to go into matches with gear caps. Similar to militia-only idea, I suppose. And it's basically what 'training' clan battles do, albeit with laughable results when someone breaks the rules. But yeah, having a way for all players to join games where SP and resulting gear isn't a factor would go a long way towards keeping new players around. And you'd still have normal matches for those who'd spec'ed into proto gear and were wanting to use it.
The only objection I can see to the idea is one of, 'Well, no one would play normal matches.' And if that's the case, who would care but the proto guys who aren't allowed to pubstomp newbies anymore? |