player base is really to small to have any system like this in place, never mind the reasons why matchmaking is not the intention of dust in the future, end goal of ccp is to have every thing running of a player generated contract system, npc contracts at the moment are simple necessity of the lack of people. im still of the belief it would be easier to have ques where only mlt gear can be used. or bring back a version of corp battles and let people set there own rules, but as i said there aint enough people to justify a match making system & once there is i personally hope the game will be beyond the need for one.

All the thoughts in this thread have been suggested in the past and the fact remains that with a small player base combined with a serious need for a player to meet other players in other corps (not NPC) and avoid running solo to truly make any progress in this game, implementing this idea would reduce the ability for players to do that. Many corps recruit based on players joining their squads and running pubs with them.

It would be better to base it on meta level of gear allowed in the battle. But yes I agree on the rest.

so lets break up your life time skill points into a set of tiers an example is as follows.

tier: Life time SP

1: 1,000,000
2: 2,500,000
3: 5,000,000
4: 7,500,000
5: 10,000,000

that is just an example


so the queue system would work like this.

every time you queue for a match alone the queue system will look for equal tier players to match you with based on your tier alone.
should you squad with another player and queue up, the system will then take an average tier level based on all members in squad and try and match you with the closest tier level squads/players in queue at that time.

new players would be able to queue alone and be placed against other new up and coming mercs just like them.
or they can squad with a friend that is farther along then them and risk their neck and assets going against players of a higher caliber because their friend caused their average tier level to go above the new players own tier.

note: at a particular tier this will not stop proto stompers who have learned to specialize in one role only instead of trying to cover two or three with a single toon.

thoughts?

Sort matchmaking by SP.

This solution would be better. SP isn't a good measure of one's skill and it wouldn't be great for matchmaking.

To be honest i would rather want a "only militia" game mode instead without any vehicles.

If anyone in this thread has ever played the game that started it all I believe they would understand that CCP doesn't make games that are fair, they make games that allow you to mess with other people, completely screw other people over and are designed to be played "not fair". Yes the Danger Game started the company off that way and their product line (Eve/Dust) has continued on the same lines of design that the original had. Knock the little guy down to get ahead aka "All's fair in love and PC".

Tiers of battles do not solve the problem you seem to think we have. If tiered battles were implemented you would still have max skill players for whatever tier joining the battles and "being unfair". I believe you have misinterpreted what the problem is, a lack of ability to decide what you want to do in game other than the 4 modes (sans PC, no one seems to be able to do that now, was someone "unfair"?). PVE, open world and other possible changes are out there that would be better fixes than a tier based system.

The reason I think this is that anyone with lv5 skills in any skill is better at what ever the module/suit/weapon is than someone with no skills or low skills. It doesn't matter if they are using Meta 1 gear, they are still more effective with that gear. Being able to do other things than just PVP would help fund the big PC battles or allow people to take a break from PVP if they are tired of getting tank spammed or proto beared, placing tiers on the battles just reduces the feeling like the battle is unfair, it doesn't actually give your team mates the ability to use advanced scouts to surprise an enemy or help you learn the value of intel the Eve way (having someone scout a system find a small fleet and jump them with a larger fleet or sneak around using a different route).