Market Forces to the rescue. That's what we need, above anything else. Proto stomping must be balanced through cost and payout mechanics, and THEN matchmaking. In essence, it should be financially unviable to lose more than two proto suits in a public match, and tat the other end of the scale PC should give just enough isk to run proto at a profit only for so long as you can successfully hold territory without losing too many suits in doing so. They're premium items that dominate the battlefield in the right hands, and right now the game hands out isk like inflation never existed and that needs to change.

Don't take away the choice to be a **** in pubs, instead increase the exposure to serious isk loss for screwing up just one game, and then let the player base adapt (or die).

I don't mind it, because I can always use my own Protogear, or just switch to a starter fit. I only play pubs when I feel like playing not so seriously, and to grind some ISK.

But going against an ENTIRE(all16) team of Prototype is ridiculous.
The protostompers need to just knock it off, you're getting nowhere by doing it and you are hurting the game by being selfish a**holes. Seriously, what's the point of doing it? I seriously look at what's going on and have nothing but personal disdain for this pathetic behavior. Who is impressed with stomping noobs in Starter fits? Do you actually try to pretend you're good when doing it? Is it some sort of accomplishment in your world? Pubstomping is wrong, 100%. It will only drive the playerbase even lower, than these guys will have to go back to games with more players on it and be the loser they were there all over again.

And to CCP. This is 100% YOUR FAULT. How can a match making system be this one-sided? Has anyone been in a match in a pub that actually was even remotely close? How are people who have less than 50 days play time being put on one team, and stacked squads of players who have over a year's play time being put all on the other side? game, after game, after game, after game...

I understand that CCP thought it was a good idea to make a game that was purposely unbalanced and unfair, but like most of everything they have done with DUST 514, they never thought it through. CCP, you know why you can't keep players on this game. How long is this joke of an experiment going to last? How is it that you can even afford to build this game with <5,000 people playing this game WORLDWIDE on any given day?

You know the answer, so why haven't you corrected it? How hard is it to make a match making system that balances out squads and time played in game? Having a low playerbase is not an reason either, that is an excuse.