Cethrie
Celestial Fleet
Ascendant Frontier
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Posted - 2006.09.26 02:14:00 -
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I thoroughly agree with the OP.
I make less ISK, get less loot and have a harder time running missions than I do ratting in 0.0.
Here is why: ASCN space is "safe", I know long before they arrive that hostiles are coming and I would have to be extremely unlucky from the time the hostile has entered local to the time I have arrived at a safe spot or station to ever be caught. CTD no problems, the spawns are never big enough nor dangerous enough to die to. Loot, heaps of named gear, occassional faction spawns, ohh and the BS's drop multiple BS mods, hence if u melt it, you make a Battleship every few hours.
Missions: Let me go on and on about how borked they are. Okay I wont. Yes I make okay ISK on an alt, running level 4 missions, comparitive to ratting, god no. I don't use a raven so they are harder (and for those of you who think a dominix is easier you are wrong, I've done both). However I run them in low sec. I constantly need to travel through to other systems to get to the mission, hence huge chance of being caught by pirates at gate camps. Just today I had a pirate warp into my deadspace mission. Lucky I was a long way from the entrance point. I CTD the other day and by the time I got back on I was in a pod, reppers and hardeners where running. Getting a friend in a megathron to help out and random aggro, loss of megathron. Using t2 drones and loosing 1 of them can cost you half the mission reward.
Complexes: Insane profit? True, time consuming, not really. Reason for existance.. well how on earth did u expect ASCN to get the ISK for all those shiney ePeens. Most of us haven't been in the game long enough to collect two of every T2 BPO now have we BoB (yes this is a digg at the OP ;P)
Overall? Your kidding me .. level 4 missions are not IWIN Buttons of ISK. If you run them 23/7 you may just make more cash than anyone else. But I can tell u, as someone who has put together several megathrons, several command ships, and hacs, fully t2 fitted. Mission ISK isn't covering that.
Do I think complexes should go away? Nope, they are a reward for holding a portion of space and being able to pay for that portion of space. (But there are plenty of ways to solve this ISK generation problem without resorting to this, but I would suspect they are more long term and infinitely harder to balance).
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