For the matchmaking I was thinking of a system where you could choose the bracket to go in - for example, you could choose to go in the standard bracket but be limited to standard gear and be unable to use prototype gear in it, even if you could use it normally.
I strongly believe that matchmaking has the ability to help the protostomping situation a lot if done correctly.

The 2.5 mil SP requirement for a single protosuit is exactly what I mean by a grindy system, though there are other flaws as well. It's not just grindy there - three weeks of non-stop grinding for complex shield extenders is a little much. It might not be hugely noticeable because you already have them, though.

I feel that a fixed economy would help because it wouldn't be economical to run protosuits all the time for as many people.


On the specialisations in the tech levels - I seem to recall that in a number of 'tiericide' ideas there have been suggestions that in the new system there would be suits which would tweak attributes, like sacrificing some speed for damage, or tank for speed, etc. That'd keep the tech levels from becoming as stale as there'd be more variety even in the same racial sets. That's what I was referring to - putting those in, but in each tech level.

I hear too many complaints now that when red-dots drop proto gear, the game ends, therefore we need tiericide....to remove tiers.

[...]

So stop crying, and figure out how to be a real mercenary and get down to business adapting for the situation. Also, please share your tips and tricks to blue-ball the enemy protobears and tryhards so we can all end this needless talk of tearicide when we already have plenty of roles to play with, already.

Do away with the tiers! Having plain better versions of suits is ridiculous. Give them different roles instead of plain more slots and CPU/PG. This will make the game more interesting and more newb friendly at the same time.

First of all, this is not EVE. ISK/hour means **** in Dust. AFKing is more efficient in generating ISK than actually playing the game.

But there is fun/hour. And a new player getting stomped by people who just use their protogear in pubmatches to increase their damn KDR sure does not have a lot fun.

And just because your damn protogear costs a lot of ISK and you probably will not make a profit when you die once or twice in a pubmatch - which you won't anyway if you at least have the slightest clue what you are doing - is not a good enough reason to feel entitled to roflstomp new players 23/7.

You are not a part of the team, you are a part of the problem.

I'm sick and tired of listening to the same reasoning over and over again. And it all comes from people who are too afraid to admit that they'd suck balls if they did not use their protogear all the time.

Do away with the tiers! Having plain better versions of suits is ridiculous. Give them different roles instead of plain more slots and CPU/PG. This will make the game more interesting and more newb friendly at the same time.

Dude those numbers only matter if you believe that all engagements are 1v1 clean showdowns.

PRO AR squads, can only hit up to 55m effectively. They can be bombarded at that range by mass drivers. If they then divide up their squad to cover all their weapon/range bases then they lower the effectiveness at those closer ranges. Grenade damage is still an equalizer for most suits. Surprise attacks can mitigate a lot of eHP/dps advantage for both PRO/STD users.

I simply have not heard what you want besides having everything be roughly equal the same isk, but 3-4x the complexity when it comes to battlefield roles. in order for the community to even make sense of that kind of complexity they would need 3-4x the amount of SP they have right now.

The problem YOU need to deal with right now are the people who say, "I'm a caldari proto AR user, and I have the best possible combination. I'm bored and have nothing left to skill into" That's an ignorant attitude, and is more responsible for destroying the chemistry of battlefield 'fairness' than the ability of people to pull out proto.

75% isn't a realistic number. It's nowhere near realistic - with 5 complex damage mods and proficiency 5, you'll get a little over half that, and if you do that you certainly won't have the HP advantage. The main problem is the HP bricking.

And my points above, indirectly albeit, is that HP bricking works now because hit detection is off, and most fights are at close range. HP bricking (especially if shields started having a regen penalty) comes at the expense of regen. Which means you can ONLY be effective so often. So while some player may be able to tank like a beast, that tactical advantage will only be there for a very short amount of time.