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Sixie Cr Gay Space Dolphins 7	Posted - 2013.11.22 20:03:00 - [1] - Quote The retention of new players is pretty bad. I've tried to get three of my friends to play and guess how many have played more than 10 matches? Zero. I even had a buddy log on with 6 mil of SP to blow, I helped him skill his character and talked it up, he played two games, got pubstomped, orbitaled three times, and hasn't logged back in since. "Hey want to try playng dust again with me?" "Nah" When I can't even get a friend to play with me, i'm constantly running solo and facing off against proto squads who win matches 65-0. I honestly don't have enough free time or SP to play in a PC corp, So for the players like me who just want to log on and play casual for an hour and log off, public matchmaking is the only option and the matches are so consistently one-sided I find my motivation to play dwindling every day. Why not use squadfinder to play with people? Pubstomping kills squadfinder; casuals who join squads via squadfinder get frustrated and leave after getting pubstomped, which seems to be happening every other game. Casual squads disband after being pubstomped and no meaningful interactions occur. I'm not expecting every game to be fair, and I don't mind being beaten by more skilled players but the problem is getting so consistently one-sided that it must be addressed. Some quick ideas that many other have mentioned: - Parse matchmaking into tiers. Pub should be more restrictive where faction and up will be less restrictive. - Limit or disable squads in pub. I would actually be okay with limiting squads to TWO people so that you can still play with a friend. - Eliminate proto suits from pub. Advanced is fine, and I don't even mind a few proto mods/equipment. Full proto is too OP for pubs.
Sixie Cr Gay Space Dolphins 7	Posted - 2013.11.22 20:28:00 - [2] - Quote pdiddy anfama wrote: Best way to solve proto stomping is flank and take enemies home letter. Wait for them to counter hack use sub-machine gun then swap to AR. proto stomper solved. I use DREN C/1 all the time for this. I may die a lot but the enemies death is more costly. Okay, you can do this with 5, 10, 20, 30 mil SP but a new player cannot. They just die, get frustrated and leave forever for greener pastures.

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