No. I was thrown into the fire and learned so should everyone else. I understand the sections that you want to implement. but if a person can only use MLT or basic because that is all they got then they should be put in together automatically.

Not with someone that has 15 million skill points but wants to only run MLT gear....That person will still mop the floor with a person. I can jump in a frontline suit and still do fairly decent just as if i was in proto..

Its not the gear people are using. its the experience they have in the game.

Yes i can see your point, and i do agree to some of it, which brings me to another problem we have, the new player experience. New players get out of Academy too damn soon, im my opinion.

Well, it really is a different game, with all the economy, gear, rpg stuff. Once they are out of academy they are literally trown into the wolves, unless you have the fortune of joining a corp, that helps.

Yes, i understand, something like ranks. Lower ranks wont acess high rank matches but will have low isk payback. High ranks can acess all ranks but will only be interested in doing high rank matches because of the isk involved.

YES. but you should not be able to go to a lower tier. Then the new players will see they have to same gear as the opponent but still be discouraged because they just got murked and keep getting murked.

SP, ISK, WP are all a bonus. i play this game cause when i kill someone i want to feel like i accomplished something. but you will still get pub stompers but they would just be in MLT. I can say with confidence because look at some people here in the community that get off on killing lesser opponents and think they are good *cough* tankers *cough*

I see a problem there, imagine i want to use some kinda gun or suit that isnt proto or like in my original post, run a all militia event for my corp. You would be restricted to the hight tiers with the dangers involved. I still think the paycheck at the end of a match would be a discouragement for a proto user to go into low rank matches.

Yeah they wont make as much ISK. but they are in MLT anyway there is no risk. you will still have people in there just to murder people so they can geek and laugh about it

Matchmaking by SP is a terrible idea. Dont forget that having more SP doesnt actually mean you are a damn good player. You can have millions of SP without even actually playing once.

Firstly, get the idea out of your head that you can ever balance "player skill" of both teams. Not possible.

Second, isn't your post suggesting to force the same level of gear on all players in pub matches? Because you do realize SP is what determines what gear is available to each player/team right?

I don't know how to explain this any clearer, but forcing the same suits on everyone is a very bad idea.

Can you imagine if I were to form a full squad of AE, and we decided to hop into the militia room (where all the newest, most inexperienced, un-squadded newberries are forced to play) You think this would be balanced?

They should base it on lifetime skillpoints

Nope, if you think about it there is lots of problems with that.

Suggestion:

Pick a game mode, then pick the maximum meta level of gear used in the match. This would avoid the current state of protostomping and it would balance a match. If you want to go proto, you would face players who also picked proto. And viceversa. Obviously rewards would be scaled according to gear. And from Varjac Theobroma Montenegro comes this great idea of establishing something similar to how sec space works on Eve, albeit diferent from what i propose, it would also be something good at matching games by gear.

Example:

Pick Domination----> Pick Any you wanted gear and below. (example Domination--> Basic gear or Domination-->Advanced gear)


Pick Skirmish----> Pick Any gear and below.


Pick Ambush----> Any Gear and below.


We all know that proto gear is hindering the balance of matches, even worse when a squad fields it entirely. I myself used proto in matches and honestly felt bad when we overpowered the enemy team. But matchmaking as it stands doesnt work, and whatever you say or contradict this with the normal arguments of "oh if i can field it, i can use it!" or "HTFU", you know that deep down, if we had balance in gear, the matches would be more intense, fair, exciting and wouldnt almost expell new players or corps who didnt had the luxury of exploiting PC and thus ensuring you had isk for protostomping public matches.

Thank you for your time reading this.

Match making cant work on dust, the system is contract based & mercs fill the spaces in a contract & the player base is simply to small to justify the divide between players who want to play together.

They should base it on lifetime skillpoints

actually it would work and make sense because the people hiring the mercs would be able to review a record of the mercs as far as their wp, kd/r, and win loss ratio (algorithms to separate them) and wouldn't want to pay to send out mercs that will be nearly guaranteed lose. Although, with the small player base it would have to not be a very strict system and might be best to just be left out. --- REALISTIC AND BALANCED IDEA

As for the particular system proposed by this threat, it is unrealistic and does have some problems shared by others on this thread

Dust 514 is a part of the Eve universe it was never supposed to be fair. Gear restriction has no place here. The economy is supposed to bring balance in the game modes. But the economy right now is broken, mainly becouse PC.

Dust is not a tournament, it is not e sports, it is a part of the eve universe.

I think you better read all the replies and posts on this topic, as i said, gear restriction COULD be implemented as Sec space on eve, high sec for safe mil and std matches, med sec for adv and below, and low sec for proto and below. CCP needs to do something about this or the game will die for new players. Everyone can see that. Either those who dont want this to change want the game to die or there is some hidden agend. Ppl will prefer this game to die before removing their protostomping ability, FACT