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Jason Pearson
Seraphim Initiative.
CRONOS.
2035
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Posted - 2013.07.22 17:10:00 -
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The Attorney General wrote:Jason Pearson wrote:
I know it's not a good way, but limiting it by cost may be a helpful factor, I mean if proto tanks ended up costing like 5mil for the Hull alone, and AV weapons ended up costing 10% of that (500k a weapon), I could see that as a helpful limiting factor, you'd really only want to deploy these things in a PC match,.
That said, I'd probably be one of the people to use a Proto tank in a Pubmatch simply because AV would be expensive too field aswell.
I am a huge opponent of trying to limit or balance by ISK. I have almost a billion ISK personally, and much much more if they ever open up the Eve link. There would be zero penalty to me rolling out a proto tank every match, all day long. Other than the shame at loosing one in a pub match.
Damn o.O I thought AVers didn't make money? :P
I'm floating on about 5 Million ISK, probably less.
But yeah, I don't think pure balance off of this, but it may be helpful in making them very pricey things, it wouldn't limit their use but would result in a nice payout for Pub players if they killed it, and would just be a factor in the balancing of it. |
The Attorney General
ZionTCD
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Posted - 2013.07.22 17:45:00 -
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Jason Pearson wrote:
Damn o.O I thought AVers didn't make money? :P
I'm floating on about 5 Million ISK, probably less.
But yeah, I don't think pure balance off of this, but it may be helpful in making them very pricey things, it wouldn't limit their use but would result in a nice payout for Pub players if they killed it, and would just be a factor in the balancing of it.
As an AV guy I can make boatloads of ISK, just need to get up high with the FG and wreak havoc. But I also no lifed the crap out of this game at first and when they cleared out our inventories I came out ahead quite nicely. My heavy toon has 1000 all proto fits ready to go. And still has a very healthy ISK balance.
As for tanking, I make a decent profit, but I work really hard at not losing tanks. There are the occasional games where I mess up and go in the hole pretty huge, but those are rare, and there are days were I don't even die once. On the whole tanking can be profitable if you play with the appropriate amount of respect for AV.
Would I really want to be risking a proto tank every pub match? Probably not, especially if they were really expensive. But that certainly wouldn't stop certain players and corps who have no concern for those types of considerations.
So any type of balancing by ISK has huge pitfalls when we consider that someday the Eve link will be open, and even if it wasn't there are plenty of players with more ISK than they could ever spend on suits who would just love a chance to go and crash ambush matches with top tier tanks.
Just go and find the two tank Nyain San(normally AddictPunk and someone else) squad and ask them what they would do if they could drop two proto tanks instead of the two madrugars they run now.
Since they already rarely lose them in a pubstomp the potential loss doesn't outweigh the reward of being able to have their ambush matches turn out 49-0 instead of the current average of 46-0. |
Jason Pearson
Seraphim Initiative.
CRONOS.
2053
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Posted - 2013.07.23 17:51:00 -
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Up you go. |
KenKaniff69
Subdreddit
Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2013.07.23 18:59:00 -
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+1 Another excellent thread that CCP will never listen to |
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