Skex Relbore
The Dominion of Light
BLACK-MARK
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Posted - 2012.02.07 20:27:00 -
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Supported.
Oh and all the dodos squawking "risk vs reward" where is the reward exactly?
Learning implants are a place where not taking risks is rewarded while taking risks is punished.
Sit in high sec with +5 learnings gain faster training, risk little.
Fight in nullsec with no implants lose training speed while risking much.
Oh and in PVP it's not a question of whether one is going to lose something rather than when, it's not a risk it's cost.
Even beyond the whole question of cost there is also the factor of availability.
Personally I have no problem risking +4s 40 mil isn't all that much in the scheme of things, but atm I'm stuck in a +3 clone not because I wasn't willing to pay for +4s for it but because there were none in the market when I made the clone in question. So now when it comes to a simple question of whether to go that clone (which is in our staging system) I have to calculate the chances of something actually happening to make the loss of learning speed worth it at least until that clone is destroyed.
Training speed is just to valuable a thing, particularly to new players, Once one has a solid skill set it's less so but when you're first starting out and you have all these "required" skills that are on opposing attribute sets it's a BFD (that's Big *#$&$&ing Deal to you civies )
Oh and faceless forum alt cowards, your opinions are discarded because there is no way to check your bonifides no way to see if might actually have some experience to support your opinions and arguments. As an experienced debater I know full well that it's often very easy to support a bullshit argument if you toss out enough unfounded assertions.
You have no credibility and your arguments are worth exactly squat.
Implants are a significant isk sink.. got any actual cites on that?
Because the reality is that most people just simply are not going to be risking expensive implants on a regular basis.
This is something that you rattle off because you think it must be true while the reality is that it just isn't. Learning implants particularly the expensive ones simply aren't replaced that often. Most nullsec PVPers don't wear them so it's not like they're burning through them at a prodigious rate and high and low sec players aren't losing many of them either.
Not at the rate to make them a "significant isk sink"
No for the most part the expensive learning implants get stuck in a high sec clone and left kept in the safe confines of high sec so there is no risk there only reward to the risk averse.
If you are going to base your arguments on "risk vs reward" then you should damned well be sure that the reward scales proportionally with the risk rather than inversely.
Implants are a place where all the rewards go to the non-risk takers.
Personally I agree with the general sentiment that attributes should be removed entirely they are a silly mechanic that really only act to limit peoples choices. and no that's the same as suggesting that everyone gets all skills at 5, prioritizing skills based on need rather than some long term map plan is not the same as eliminating planning all together.
And to all the "I'm willing to risk my implants anyone who doesn't is just a wuss", good for you, You wanna a cookie?
It remains a stupid mechanic that discourages risk taking by rewarding the risk averse.
+1 support
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