we need gear based battles, then you can proto vs proto and have your fun.

as it stands its shite times for new players. I made an alt, 1 game in academy then into the proto stomp, not fun.

personally I see your attitude as part of the problem, yes it is your right to play that way but its a big problem for new and casual players alike. if you do want to do good then tell CCP that this is perhaps the biggest issue which needs to be tackled next or player retention will suffer.

I have seen some good games die because the developers listen to the vocal few who are not in touch with the majority.

Anyone remotely new asking for that will deeply regret it if it gets put in.

Vets would love it because all their passive skills will make it super easy to stomp on people who can't figure out how your AR does 15% more damage.

Gear restrictions favour those with more passive skills. Those people are not the new players.

This is a dumb idea. First, you are trying to say that solo play is somehow a superior tactic to teamwork and thus should be rewarded by the game? This is an MMO which inherently means that you went online SPECIFICALLY TO PLAY WITH OTHERS! If you want solo, don't go online. Second, you are taking option and choice of play-style away from players by doing this. Why play in a game where you can choose how to fit your suit etc. when you just force people to your conformity anyways? Why not play COD where the "kit" is already defined for your "role" and be happy there? Here there are no real "roles" there are no forced kits. You play how you like it. If you want to not join a squad and play solo, then go for it. Just understand that your opponent doesn't have to like that and will do whatever they want to.

This is the main problem, people have played MMO's for a good chunk of their gammng history, and understand when you play one you can't come in as a level 20 and murder a level 90.

The FPS players who have played that genre more exclusively don't comprehend that concept well. They think when you join a game with two people and gun's their should be some "even" playing field between the two. That's where alot of the problem stem's with attitude...

No MMO player would expect someone to wear noob gear on a level 90 so the level 20 could have a chance... it would be laughable.

When I started this game i knew this as fact, There will be people with much better skill's and suit's then I and i will have to play differently to compete with them. If you highly specialize into something you max out somewhat quickly and can catch up or gain competitive footing fairly quick.

But the assumption that you should directly compete with Prototype 20m SP players when your right out of Training grounds.. is.. deflating peoples spirit at the general ability to grasp a true MMOFPS concept.

I would love a game that dose that so much.

I feel that games hold your hand too much nowdays.

Ok, so you will still get stomped... Why? Because everyone in a corp will be on corp voice and q-sync for those matches. Not all will make it into the same match, but a lot will and then they will just group up together again. Trying to discourage teamwork in a multi-player game is couter-productive. Instead come up with ways to use team work to your advantage and as a mechanism to help balance the equations. Instead of having matches where you ban squads, instead have matches that require them for example. This will make newbs understand that they need to work together to get anywhere.

i never said that you couldn't join matches solo. I'm only saying that everyone on here that is QQ'ing about being beat all the damn time are trying to fix the symptoms of the problem when they just need to recognize that when they play solo it won't be easy is all. Instead of understanding the difficulties of their CHOICE of play-style, they want to impose their artificially derived play-style onto others. I won''t force you to play in a squad if you don't want to, but don't force me to play solo in an MMO also.