1) skill would be totally useless.
2) dmg/pec would be totally useless.
3) markup on (L) guns would not be worth it.
So basically, the whole game would be ruined and the economy gone. Nobody is going to spend (much) money on gear or skills when it would not matter anyway.
I beg to differ.
For 1), MA never promised, infact directly denied that skills give better tt return. Skills are meant to give certain opportunities, not to guarantee anything, that's all. Same way as geology through higher finder would allow acces to better ores, in same way handgun through higher dmg/sec would allow higher markup from bigger mobs. Besides, skills are manipulated by MA as they please, there is no surefire way in this game. 2 years from now on could be as different as 2006 was to 2004. What would have meant at first looted imk2 to pretend it shouldn't be used because of too low skills, given that prolly highest rifle skill ingame was maybe 2k at that moment?
2)
dmg/pec is a notion invented by players. MindArk never ever guaranteed that dmg/pec would do anything. Sure, you're controlling your expenses in a certain direction, but that's all to it.
3) well, if the loot has not enough markup, markup on L weps is useless. And generally, for a, say, scipulor hunter to profit, HL8
must be sold at an uneco markup for buyer.
Or how do you imagine one player looses peds with UL nonsib wep? Somebody at MA stays with a hammer in hand and says "ah sorry you're under 2,9dmg/pec, bang?"
Or there's some sort of mystic coding line which says "you missed skillbased, thou has lost, nub"?
What's so rational in your perspective? "I see it this way, it must be this way"? Lol?
There is no possible proof for this. What can I say, my 7-8k turnover with karma unamped last year on drones 01 ~lvl41 matters? I tried all kind of weapons, some of them I used extensively and will always do if I'll ever afford to buy them again and the only thing which attracted my attention was a slight difference in quality of loot. Nor up or down, just different. But that's all.
Yes, EP 40 at lvl 10 might be bad. Prolly is a threshold somewhere. But eco-strictness is wrong imo, fortunately each is free to do as he/she pleases.