WOW! I got to spend the entire day trying to make progress on my JD. I got 1.5 combat levels, 9k debt, and I'm now broke from repairs. Challenging? EVEN in Live, it was not this hard to level with store bought equipment. You have made it TOO hard for a single player to do. Group you say? Perhaps I like to do things alone. Perhaps I'm not much into grouping. I do believe it's my prerogative to do that, right?
I play games to relax, enjoy, and take my mind off of RL stress. This is far from relaxing. Far from entertaining. It's got me so frustrated, I am seriously considering just not playing. You see, I don't have the luxury of multi-boxing. Which, btw, is what about 80% of this community does.
I beta tested EnB. I played Live till sunset. I know this game inside and out. The one thing I loved about EnB was that it was multi-faceted and you could group or play solo. Normal mobs were easily soloed 4-5 levels above your CL. The "challenge" was the raids. You could get to 150 easily by yourself, but you didn't get any good gear without being in a guild, doing a pug, or being invited to fill a spot in a raid. The raids were rough, there were usually 30-40 doritos in a fb. There were always atleast 6 dead PW's and 10 TT's at any Controller raid. We always had 5 JE's on hand for Jumpstarts. THAT was fun. THAT was a good time. You also had enough money to pay for what you needed. This economy is simply ridiculous. You don't have the player base for this kind of pricing. But hey, I'm sure you have thought all this through and don't see any problems. I suppose there really isn't too much of a problem. I don't mind paying 100k for a 200% L4 reactor.......too bad I don't have 100k due to the cost of repairs, upgraded 100% equipment, necessities such as engines, shields, devices, weapons. The only way to avoid the problem is to build your own gear. I spent almost 100k tonight alone to make my wife and I 2x Monoceros, 2x RR+. 2x Laz, and 3x beams. The pricing is not realistic. It's like going to work shoveling out chicken coupes for 13 hrs a day and bringing home 1.20. Please get a clue.