I don't really see much entertainment value in running around in PA instead of MA.
You are a bit harder to kill, that's all. And if it was rare nobody would run around in it.
You don't see much people with gausses, do you?
Despite my apathetic view on pvp and pve in FO2238, I still have few things to say about this.
Main entertaining value of these PA armors will be their rarity, quality and status which they give to owner.
Rarity thing can be quite tricky, because comparing to value of other items in game, and their value is lower than cheap for major player (gang or experienced loner), those items are nothing, thus, it may obviously cause PA's to gather dust in some tents
(and this brings problem of safe locations and WM detachment from other events in game), however not everyone share such opinion on items caretaking and would rather use it to have an edge over their opponent than having another useless junk on their base.
I'll drop quality and go to status. As I've mentioned above, these armors due to being rare and so to say, high tech, will obviously give any gang some status, not as big as in other mmo's but still.
And if you (really?) have doubts that players will actually use them, give away more armors (reasonable amounts ofc). Players don't use rare stuff not because they afraid to just loose it, they don't use it because they have either too low chance to gain it back, or think that time required to gain such item is unreasonably high.
I know I shouldn't just talk about major gangs and their pvp, but here where comes problems of loners vs gangs and their place in the world, but this is not the topic for discussing here.I guess I could think/write more about this issue, but judging by all the attitude of team towards, basically, majority of player activities/responses, I don't really feel like it. And players don't help either.
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Thank you for your fuckin' attention.