The glaring issue is that there is a major disparity between the casual player who uses Pubs/FW payouts as their primary income and the players (like myself) who receive a paycheck from PC. It's an issue, I feel, because when the matches start getting one-sided, as they often do, it gets to a point where the player has to make a decision between seeing it through or leaving all together. That's not good, in my opinion.

There aren't many close matches, we all understand that much. It usually feels one sided with stacked teams for whatever reason, be it in the Pub-Matches where the match maker throws together a hodge-podge of randomly queued individuals or Faction Warfare which is more free form. My problem is that the disparity between the two player groups is a bit large; I can afford to do this because I have PC funding, whereas another player may not.

That being said, what incentive is there to use the high-end gear for the matches that matter - like in Faction Warfare? If the payouts are the same (or nill, as CCP has stated they want to remove the payout all together) than the casual player is restricted to high-sec pub matches where these occasional high-investment battles can empty the wallet very very quickly.

Let me make it abundantly clear, this isn't Prototype/Complex gear. This is Advanced/Enhanced. If the losses incurred were so high that I couldn't even afford to replace half of them, how is a player without some other means of gaining ISK expected to continue using it in Faction Warfare? Or in a Pub match in which the match-maker for some reason decided to pit them against a team of Prototype-wearing individuals?

I'm about to make another thread to illustrate this point more clearly but for a new player that price gets significantly higher (frames costing more than specialization suits).

Once Faction Warfare and PC are in a better place, and a proper (working) P2P market is in order, I'm all for restricting gear in pub-matches to emphasize on wanting to branch out from them.

I think the possibility to limit gear may be a little bit more plausible than people may think, an fit is a tool that is used in EVE, so it has a precedence. That being the limiting of certain hull types when you go mission running. But I canGÇÖt say that I have seen that in PvP in EVE.

The potential costs of running a pub match versus those players that have had the opportunity to sink themselves into the pit of money that PC can bring definitely puts newer players and those that are economically disadvantaged into a serious predicament.