One of these days I'm going to compile a comparison of fairly typical AR medium fits at different stages across an SP timeline... maybe with a graph. Everyone loves graphs.

Will likely illustrate a quite massive chasm between starters/intermediates and veterans. Significantly behind in total health, damage output, damage recovery and possibly speed. Oh, and grenades. Grenades also scale incredibly. They don't just get increased radius, they don't just get increased damage, no. They get both. In droves.

Pretty similar story with Extenders. The prototype is 200% better than the basic, 100% better than the enhanced. It's pretty whack. Go Complex or go home.

Basically the statistical disadvantage at the various stages in a mercenary's lifetime is what I'd like to examine. The video in this thread illustrates the issue of inexperience taken to an extreme. Both of these hurdles mixed together make for quite the venomous cocktail.

Matchmaking and improved academy are two things to think about as solutions, I would also advocate looking at all instances where a jump from basic to prototype increases performance exponentially. These warrant examining on a case-by-case basis to try and determine if there is a good reason for them to spike in performance like they do.

It will lead to less deaths, and please if you are new this will really help

Wait so 400 war points was not a typo for 400k war points?

CCP what the fuk. How on earth did this ever seem like a good idea?

CCP you bad and should feel really bad.

Also someone please go give her some training.

This video is among the saddest I've seen -- and I try to use player videos to understand what new players go through, so I've seen a lot of ugly stuff. It is almost too painful to watch.

A rare high point for the Dust community (same girl who did the video in the original post).