True Adamance
PIE Inc.
Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
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Posted - 2013.07.09 11:55:00 -
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Aero Yassavi wrote:steadyhand amarr wrote:Keep saying simples fix is lock gear by game mode instant battles. T1 fw t2 pc anything goes people can't mone about gear then Once upon a time I believed this as well, but now I believe it would just create more problems. Dust 514 is New Eden, there is no segregation. Sure have a battle academy just long enough for players to learn the controls and mechanics, but after that they must be welcomed to the world. If you create more tiers of instant battles you simply create this loop where you feel you are at the top then a couple upgrades later you are back at the bottom because you moved to the next collection of players. Though this comes from the guy who believes the disparity between new and old players is not as great as it seems.
However you have to think of it in terms of employers logic.
While EVE truly is an open sand box game, it does limit what you as a player can do and get yourself into.
Think of it this way.
I am an employer with a moderate amount of ISK to invest in the protection of goods, however because I only have a moderate amount of ISK I cannot buy the best mercs, nor can I risk using the worst to protect this shipment, so the only logical thing to do is to hire a decent band of mercs to protect my goodies.
You are also and employer who wants what I have.... you have your ISK.... what would you do?
You wouldn't hire mercs worse than mine that would be a waste of money, and you wouldn't buy mercs far superior to mine either because then that would be a waste as well because the amount spent on mercs would exceed or match the acceptable value of the warzone. What you would do is buy slightly better mercs than me or mercs on par with mine to fight over.
Its call the war economy, war zones have regional war prices, determined by corps and employers looking to get in on the action, when someone brings in big time mercs the regional war price drastically escalates and the lower ranked mercs are put out of business to make way for better and better mercs, thus theoretically you would never see mercenaries of vastly different skill levels or equipment levels in the same warzone....
Thus match making for public employers not only makes sense logically, but balances the game to.
When you get corps in FW and PC they are acting under their own interests so who they go up against is determined by the warzone they enter.
E.g- EoN enters the warzone against some unknown alliance, they push up the RWP and kick out the lower class mercs who cannot compete, however lets say "Super MeGA ULTRA Alliiance" pops in and they out SP and ISK EoN (highly unlikely I know) then EoN is out of the RWP because they cannot compete either. |