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 ****

I would like a new game mode. It could be called "arena" (perhaps to imitate fighting for someone's entertainment, or for a corp to test a new players ability more easily if they lack sp) . In this game mode all advanced, prototype, and officer gear is banned to help keep from having a clear winner. A game mode with normal sp gain but half isk rewards. This will give new players a safer place to get better(with less reward), experienced players a place to relax, or practice with new weapons for cheap. If this is limited to one game mode, which I don't think it should be, it should be domination or skirmish.

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?

That would be fine if you had basic turrets, reps, armor, shields, hardeners ect.

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

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 need "Custom games", desperately... most shooters have it.

Friendly private games, no stats, no equipment loss, no rewards, custom rules (clone count, time limit, etc...)

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

At half payout, it would hurt to lose one but that is your choice.

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

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

I would like a new game mode. It could be called "arena" (perhaps to imitate fighting for someone's entertainment, or for a corp to test a new players ability more easily if they lack sp) . In this game mode all advanced, prototype, and officer gear is banned to help keep from having a clear winner. A game mode with normal sp gain but half isk rewards. This will give new players a safer place to get better(with less reward), experienced players a place to relax, or practice with new weapons for cheap. If this is limited to one game mode, which I don't think it should be, it should be domination or skirmish.

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.