Jooki Chewaka
Stalking Wolfpack
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Posted - 2014.08.19 15:00:00 -
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As I've been saying since day 1 (I've got a closed beta toon), the protostomping is an issue, even the advanced stomping is an issue, from a fresh new player pov.
There is some people that have said that the way to adress this issue is to separate the different type of suits in different matches.
This might solve the issue, but would create others:
- As you can see on http://eve-offline.net/?server=dust the playerbase in dust is, and has been at around 3500+- players for more than a year, this means that segregating the players would decrease, even more, the chances to get into a match, right now getting into a factional warfare battle is kinda hard, sometimes at least you need to wait more than 5 minutes, segregating the players would increase this wait time
- On a match with all militia, me, with all my million SP would be able to join and use only militia gear, and belive me when i tell you i would just own the battle, basically because nowdays i use my eve collectors edition BPOs which basically are militia and most of the time I still own protobears...
Some people have also said that this way of adressing the issue isn't viable because sandbox bla bla, they might be right, on legion, but lets face it, not on DUST 514, this ain't EVE, there's no chance a loby shooter like this be a sandbox, so this ain't a reason, the two exposed previously is.
How would I solve it:
When one joins a battle, the system scans which players have the most SP and a message prompts and tells the 2 higher SP toons something like: "You've been chosen to be user of prototype gear, do you accept?" If you agree then you can/must use proto gear, there should be, say 2 guys to be flagged as proto users, and then 5 guys to be flagged as advanced gear users, the rest are only allowed to use standard/militia, if you refuse the offer you go down a tier, and the offer jumps down to the next guy.
Imho, this is a complicated way because CCP would need to program Scotty to do even more work, but its the only way i find the public matches to be balanced, because what the OP is saying IS REAL, and its the main reason why DUST 514 has so low players (among others).
See you from orbit
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