I would suggest having matches for only Basic suits and matches for adv and proto suits. One can decide which match to join.
This way newbies can play against each other and veterans are forced to use lower tier suits if they want to fight along and make some isk.

Organize into squads yourself then. That goes for all of you crybabies who ***** about getting dominated by people who play in squads.

If you join a public match but refuse to use the squad finder or "lfs" then getting stomped by a squad or two squads of organized players is well deserved.

There's a reason why there are so many warpoint bonuses for activities that help other members of your team (healing, repairing, using scanners, dropping uplinks etc.) it's because you're SUPPOSED to play AS A TEAM and not run solo.

So stop bitching about getting owned by players who play the way the game is meant to be played because they aren't doing anything wrong, YOU ARE!

This nails the primary pain point. We understand it's hard to pick 32 equivalent players for a match. Just try and balance the good and bad players across the two teams, for heck's sake.

The thing is that new players in eve pretty much has to stay away from PvP entierly because if you venture to any PvP area there's always a possibility of running into not only more experienced players but also running into experienced players in groups ganging up on you.

The only other activtirs you can do in eve without risking that as much is PvE, but let's face it carebear PvE is boring as hell in the long run. And the only way to make it equal to eve would be to bring in PvE elements in dust as well (which seem to be in the plans in regards to the "rogue drone hunting" occuring in the intro video).

But I don't want to see any "player level apartheid" in the PvP elements of dust at all. There's gotta be a risk of running into more experienced players in squads. It makes the game more exciting and forces people to get better.

If everyone could just "choose" which people they have to go up against then the game will get really lame really fast.

And as I said before: there's always gonna be new players. New players come and go to every game. The hardcore atmosphere will appeal to enough people to make the game survive (while alienating others). So there's no reason to worry.

Ccp shouldn't focus any efforts at all in trying to keep whiny noobs around. It would be a waste of resources and it would prevent them from adding new content that rewards players who show commitment.

Make a militia only mode.

Make militia items no longer register player skills.

This will create an militia game mode that will work for new players for the time and a new mode for veteran players to enjoy with having no special advantage.


The Battle Academy needs a ground up rework. From taking a new player by the hand and teaching them basic lessons like aiming in DUST, to advanced lessons where they teach how scanning works(dB etc..)

Either that or we have to start working on the real EVE connection and make pub's just some meaningless ISK grind that has little focus on. Where as now its all everyone plays and is the source of a majority of the conversations.

I personally do not mind fighting against proto players with my Standard gear. I could use Proto gear as well, but I choose not to.

If we ever get kill mails I can not wait to see how ISK efficient I am. I love seeing good proto players go down to my Standard Combat Rifle.

do you go into an mmo and expect to beat an end game player? no of course not - theyve spent more time playing and have invested a heap into the game