Text Grant wrote:I dont care what kind of stomping you prefer. I just went against a group of Latinos Killer Corps with Thales, Isukone assault forge, and Imperial scrambler rifles (with modified controllers) and I personally GUARANTEE that not a single person on my team had ANY fun in that game. Please CCP allow us to que into matches without proto, officer, and perhaps even advanced gear so that there is an option to avoid people that enjoy making this game suck for everyone on the opposite team. At least then you stand a chance at killing your opponent.
All of these weapons should kill very well. But they are intended to be used against gear of around the same meta level, and as it is now a game where you either proto stomp or be stomped, an option to go into a battle where it isn't allowed would make it much more enjoyable for the people that don't have the SP, or want to spend the ISK to compete at that level.
The ISK barrier isn't enough to keep officer weapons out of public matches, and scotty can't tell when a player will do so to put them against a harder team to keep it a good game. Also before proto stompers come in here, it is not stopping you from slaughtering new players. This only brings you down to their HP. You can still kill them in your basic suit with basic damage mods and your basic weapon.
The only down side to this is that it will seperate the players. All the proto stompers will actually have to play against proto players! And all the basic players will actually get decent matches as well.
When did CCP say that advanced gear was made to run against advanced gear? Or that proto gear is only intended for the use of killing other proto gear.
I'm really sorry to point this out since I think that stomping is as stupid as the next guy but CCP has never claimed that any of their gear is tierd in such a way so as to restrict its use against other gear. Infact they've gone so far as to de-buff higher level gear. Flattening the playing fiield, and making it easier for those in standard/militia gear to compete with people who have protoed everything out.
You clearly were not playing this game during closed beta when the gap between equipment tiers was so monsterous you could drive a HAV through it (an even that was none too infrequent by the way).
The reason these stomps happen, and there really is no other reason, is organization. Players with better gear are typically much more organized and will annihilate a disorganized opponent. It doesn't matter one bit what type of gear the opponent is using. A disorganized enemy who is using proto-gear only takes a minute or two more to red-line then does one in starter fits. Yes the individual skill of those players doing the stomping does figure in, but it is a small piece compared to the overall organization of the team.
Typically when blue dots see a hyper organized squad or too in their midst they tent to follow them about, which means that the blue dots are now (*GASP!*) organized too, thus intensifying the organized squad(s)' effectiveness.
You need to stop spending your time here complaining and organize a squad. You'll do much better and only really get stomped by a more organized squad.