I would go in on that ****. 'Pulls out Maddy, proceeds to **** without fear of PROTO or Adv. AV to insta/seriously fast kill me' Yea, definetly would get in on that ****

This is actually a good idea, and a way to make up for the pitiful battle academy. Plus it would be fun to 1v1 in MLT/STD gear. But what about proficiency skills?

Yup, and still would kick ass. I would only lose ~1000 eHP on said fit too.

and my basic forge gun would still eat your tank like a tasty treat.

Yep, we have been asking for this since Closed Beta. That was before Open Beta and all the releases that have appeared since Uprising from 5 May.

Hasn't happened yet.

We also have relatively low player count, 4k today at one time, tgats pretty low, if we sepperate player base more the battle entrance time will go up alot

You realize that it takes 3+ matches as is to get one of my regular fits, and with this it would only take 2, right?

An MLT Arena sounds awesome. But what about this also? Extend the 'shelter' of Battle Academy a bit further and create a tier system for public matches. This way players have more control over the quality of the opponents they may face?

Battle Academy Matches
Hi-sec Public matches
Low-sec Public matches
Null-Sec Public matches

Never ban gear people earn and grind to get. That is stupid.

That's one way to look at it.

Here's another.

You make the argument that having separate channels for players is hand holding. Ok. Then all you would have to do is go pubstomp in weaker gear in the low meta class if it offends you that you can't stomp on noobs. Unless you're worried that running weaker gear might get you killed by the nublets. Do you really need that proto gear to stomp new players? If you are not worried you'll get stomped by noobs if you run weaker gear, then I don't see your issue. You can play in the noob tier and make crappy rewards after every match. If you are worried you'll get stomped, then your problem isn't my proposal, it's that you need to get good.

I'm only saying that people should have the choice to fight withing the weight class they feel they are in gear-wise. People of all skill levels can still join any tier, so there is no hiding from someone who just really wants to stomp noobs, but they will have to do it in the same kind of gear the noobs are in. The fact that you wanna pubstomp noobs in proto gear who don't have the gear to properly defend themselves should be your problem, not theirs.

yes, but if matchmaking will be in place, why would the high tier arena guys not be able to use their protos, the reason i would want to have the arena is so i can 1v1 my friends to see who has the better proto suit, since i clearly know we are even with skill at the game.

Also might i suggest 2 different gamemodes for arena, one for vehicles, one for infantry. I might want to have epic dropship war with one of the "best pilots in the game".

anyway just some stuff to think about, if matchmaking is on higher teirs should be able to use anything they have.

I'm just sayin, even if I use basic gear I still have proficiency lvl. 5 on my mass drivers. That's slightly more damage than the Freedom Mass driver when I use the basic

I think there needs to be a choice when setting the match on the arena for what the max Meta level of any of a person's gear is from 1 to 5 with 1 allowing meta 1 (level 1 specialized or general suits, links, hives, guns etc) and 5 allowing up to prototype everything. This makes testing skills an option, also make the match setup allow a choice between public, alliance and corporation.

Bro, that's already confirmed. There will be a Gladiator mode soonTM.

I'd like to see Militia vs Militia as well. I've seen a number of people leave the game in frustration after hitting their first few proto squads

https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=18206&find=unread
read number 14 !

I just reported it telling them I didn't read it and they should just lock it.

You won't get a dev response by asking for one ... I've been around these forums for long enough to know they will make a point of not responding if you specifically ask for them to.

They do their best to read EVERY forum post ... the ones they are likely to skip over are the ones with titles like this one.

So, I read the whole thread. Your suggestion is nothing new, sir.

The concept of equipment locked matches has been suggested hundreds of times by nearly as many people, in much better worded threads than yours.

Please stop bumping a thread that does not deserve it. Thanks :)

Also, a tidbit from this thread about forum rules

The best posts ARE the ones that make it as easy as possible to implement. Discuss idea, suggest possible methods of implementation and their benefit, possible detriments that should be accounted for, etc.

A paragraph saying "We should have a mode that limits tiers" isn't really helpful beyond stating the obvious, and isn't constructive feedback.

On the note of "Tons of people have said they want it" Sure, it's true. Tons of people want PVE, and tons of people want the SP rollover system. Notice we don't have those yet, either :(

CCP's in a position where they have to pick and choose what to add and what to put on the backburner. Hopefully there will be some nice news coming out in the near future though. *wink*