This is inherently the dumbest thing I've ever heard of. I will be on the lookout for members of my alliance exhibiting this dumb, and will deal with them appropriately. Acting ungentlemanly with things like AFK farming, being a cancer to your own team, is not classy.

Proto has nothing to do with it. It had little do with it before, it has even less to do with it now. TTK is so fast, that what suit you're wearing is irrelevant. If you have to blame your suit on your death, it's just your refusal to admit you're a bad player. The game balance comes down to organization.

Yes, matches are heavily imbalanced. No, it has nothing to do with proto suits. Most "protostompers" are actually running full organized squads. And they have Planetary Conquest experience. Experience they're more than happy to use on the unwashed masses in pub matches. The fact that they have proto (largely just because they can afford it, from PC income), has little to do with their success.

If you want a way to sort players, it needs to be granting solo players a playground where squads aren't allowed. So that individuals can play on even turf. New players can start there to learn the feel of the mechanics and the gameplay, explore the maps, etc. Then they can hit up the squad finder to take it to the next step, having already learned the basics.

Challenge them to a match on even gear. If you can put together a team that can beat 0.H with both sides being in standard gear, then you might have an argument. I'm sure they've got 16 players that are more than happy to defend their reputation and humiliate you at the same time.

If what suit you wear is so irrelevant then why is it used then ?

Matchmaking is broken, it needs fixing CCP are still ignoring the problem and it hurts not only new players but intermediate players too.

There is a reason why the player base has been declining over the past 6 months and that is because protostomping has got out of hand and every new and intermediate player has had their spirits crushed into oblivion and they simply up and leave the game.

This is nothing to do with solo players being up against players in squads and a solo player only mode will still get exploited by people running full proto and stomping new players in that gamemode too.

The only solution to this issue is to not only increase the requirements til players leave the academy but to introduce either meta level gaming (like high sec and low sec) and sp based matchmaking .. the current mechanics of this game throw new players to the wolves to act as food to pad the stats of the protostompers.

BETA was alot more fun than the current build because protostomping wasn't as rife and proto gear was never intended to be used in every single gamemode ... PC is broken and allowed the current protostompers to monopolise ISK to fund players running full proto in pubgames, what we have currently is an amalgamation of all the issues this game has had over the past 6 months and it is game breaking !

You are free to not take part in the protest that is your choice

I'll build my army and get back to you. I'd say wish me luck, but I have a feeling you'd refuse. Happy hunting.

BETA was alot more fun than the current build because protostomping wasn't as rife and proto gear was never intended to be used in every single gamemode

TTK was longer because hit detection was broken and weapons had damage buffs to compensate for this and now that hit detection is working the extra damage buffs has reduced TTK exponentially.

Why do scouts die so easily compared to Heavies ? eHp ... the difference between a militia suit and a proto suit with proto mods is minimum 500 hp and a huge difference in damage, yes TTK is lower but taking down a proto in 8 seconds compared to killing a militia suit in 1 second is a huge difference, I honestly have no idea what game you're playing but it certainly isn't DUST

PS My Miltia AR has been the death of many a proto suit, Molon Labe and outer heaven have been redlined by an organised squad of people in STD gear v them in proto ... the fact is not everyone is as skilled and forcing them to get slaughtered every game for months on end is the reason why the player base isn't growing

TL;DR You seem to be under the delusion that this is a QQ protest when in actual fact I used to protostomp but saw the problem it was causing to a game I want to succeed and stopped doing it .. not everyone who is against protostomping is a new player .. alot of vets also disagree with it's use in pubgames .. I have over 600m ISK I can afford to run proto every game if I wanted but I don't .. no argument you come up with will ever change the fact that protostomping in pubgames is detrimental to DUST

Instantly liked the fact no one liked his post.

With all due respect, Karl, this protest will get no one anywhere. I agree that protostomping is a problem, but it's not the only one. There's the blueberries not using teamwork, TTK being too short, etc,. etc. But an ingame protest? You want this game fixed? Get more people to play, or stop playing altogether. I'm doing the former.

If I didn't want this game to succeed I'd have left months ago, the ingame protest is a last resort due to months of ignoring the issue by CCP

They rebuilt a matchmaking system that is even worse than before, reduced the WP on new players leaving the academy and there are no plans to address the issue in the next few months.

There are of course alot of problems with this game however the game not being fun for a high proportion of the player base is a serious issue.

As a gamer I can forgive any problem as long as the game is fun, that is the reason I play games .. if a game mechanic makes the game not fun and tedious then that is a problem that can't be ignored.

Most of the people who see the problem aren't the type of players to come to the forums .. they are the casual players, the guys who play for fun and also the people who are leaving this game at an alarming rate .. 600 new characters are created every day yet the player base is declining ...

The mechanic is failing because the new players are leaving, yes. But if we bring in more players than are leaving, then this will fix itself. In the meantime, CCP needs an artificial fix on this sort of thing. Raise the Academy WP. 1200 WP in Dom is easy. Created a new character. 1400+ WP in two matches.

Well, anyways, while I do think it needs to be changed, but that this won't work, I wish you the best of luck. Just don't be surprised if I make your merc fall.

Thanks and in truth I know it probably wont make the slightest bit of difference but all I can do is try

I will post this link though so you can keep track of the player base and amount of peopel online, if you look at the yearly graph you'll clearly see the general downwards trend and don't forget that last week was a triple SP event and look at how little difference it made to the numbers .. that's the most worrying part of all

http://eve-offline.net/?server=dust

Look on the bright side: The players still here are those that are in it for the long haul. Like myself. Been here since Beta. Love this game. Nearly 10M SP. *Shrug*

True but alot of them are the ones adding to the problem

3 days until the 1st day of protest begins

I'll have to make sure I can play that day then.