Nice Idea but not very effective.

I think a better idea would be to place players into an Sp bracket that between 2.5 million sp and 5 million sp.

So you start off in battle academy and gain up to 2.5 million sp.

Tier 1 = 2.5 mill to 5 mill

Tier 2 = 5 mill to 7.5 mill.

Tier 3 = 7.5 mill to 10 mill

Tier 4 10 mill to 15 mill.

Tier 5 15 mill to 20 mill

Players would be allowed to play in tiers higher than their sp bracket if in a squad that has players in a higher bracket.
However players with higher sp will not be able to join into the lower tier.

Sure its not a perfect model to use but its a step in the right direction.

I strongly feel that this is what this game is missing

I personally feel a matchmaking system based on WP per death would be the best idea. It wouldn't limit anyone's choice of suit, as a gear based matchmaking system would, and it wouldn't it penalise high SP characters that like to run many different roles and so have spent it in many different places, like an SP based matchmaking system. If a good player in all standard gear can fight competitively against a bad player in all proto gear, why not let them fight?

Just let pub contracts be ranked from 1-5 with the 5's being the highest ISK rewards, 1's being the lowest. High tier players would naturally gravitate to those high ISK matches, new players would be stomped out of the high tier matches and therefore move into lower tiered matches, pub stomps would only be an occasional thing.

Why stop it. No one stopped Snuffbox blowing up my ship in EVE (damn you Bethany Valvetino), no one stopped those DPS fleets jump me as I was bashing the POS in a worm hole. No one stopped pirates from hot dropping me out in Molden Heath.

PvP pilots in eve are always stomping smaller and weaker targets.

Yes, but mega suits with hundreds more HP then standard suits would be left out.

The skills will do as skills do. They will give the gets a bonus, but the skills alone don't make vets the "OP Class".

The gear is the major issue, the skills give an appreciable, but not unbalancing bonus.

how is playing with people in the same sp range as you less fun?

how fun is it to play against a guy with 25 million sp when you only have 5?

how would it hurt new players when There is still local channel as well as corp channels so they could ask for advice.

besides if people need help thats what the forums are for

Your just dumb buddy

I posted this exact idea with full systematic details of how the battles would work, and got no response.. you'd be lucky if CCP even read this.

I posted this exact idea with full systematic details of how the battles would work, and got no response.. you'd be lucky if CCP even read this.

I'd prefer "gear-based" to SP-based.

Gear-based would be 100% effective, 100% of the time. Only STD/MLT in the low tier. Brilliant.

Of course vets would still get passive skills, but that's their "reward" for being vets. In the low-tier they can leverage their passives but not their assets. They'd still be more lethal, but it wouldn't even be close to the pub-stomp that is Newbiew + MLT gear vs. Vet + PRO gear.

You can have matchmaking within the gear tiers if you want, but the tiers simply existing would be huge by itself. The matchmaking as-is does jack-squat.