Vell0cet
Royal Uhlans
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2013.06.09 14:58:00 -
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A couple points to add to this.
Sniping is pretty hard in this game. Most suits can take a couple of hits, and some can take a ton of hits. Sniper rifles have tiny clips so you really need to maximize your alpha, which leads to running expensive fits in your sniper gear. Because snipers are so vulnerable to counter-sniping, it's easy to loose that expensive suit in an instant. This leads to:
Tharak Meuridiar wrote:...many snipers focus too much on the not attracting notice part... I'm not saying this is or isn't a problem, merely pointing out the motivations behind it.
Things that could help this is rewarding assists more. If you take away over 75% of someone's health you should get a "Big Assist" 40 WPs or something like that, and the guy who finishes him off should get a "Kill Steal" 25 WPs. Rewarding assists more when they are doing the bulk of the damage should help a bit. Also, I think scout suits should be more invisible to detection than they are by a significant amount. You should be able to sit far away from combat in a mediocre scout suit with a profile damp and feel "fairly" safe. Snipers should get a 10-20 WP bonus for lighting up a hard to see target if that target is then killed by a teammate (e.g. painting up a stealth shotgunner, or a sniper from an angle you can't hit directly). There should be a significant WP bonus for taking out someone in the process of hacking an objective (perhaps you don't even have to kill them to get it, just do damage and have them stop hacking).
These small incentives would help reward the sniper who is focused on helping his team's goals instead of padding the K/D from the redline. If you think about how combat is currently incentivized with WPs and payouts, redline sniping is the most cost-effective way to farm SPs since of all the tasks that a sniper does, he's really only rewarded kills and assists. Compare that with murder taxiing, shooting turrets (even the ones meant for your own team) and AV, or spawining free assault suits and spamming grenades and your going to have to work VERY hard for your WP's compared to others. |