I am for matchmaking to a certain extent or at least some form of it. But the playerbase numbers worries me as far as matchmaking implementation

So you just completely ignored the context of what I'm saying? Okay mr literal

Good luck finding Oceana...

That would work if everyone only had one fit...

In Battle, your fittings would be Valid / Invalidated based on the rank selected by your Squad Leader at the Contract Select screen

I'd say rank by SP. Every 5 mil gets a new rank. Squads would work by having the dude with the highest rank be the decisive factor in matchmaking. So, if a Rank 10 dude squadded up with 5 other Rank 1s, they would join a Rank 10 match.

I was going to say to go with the average, but that would require math from CCP and we all know how THAT turns out.

Overly complex due to the sheer variety of modular loadouts, and ignores the concepts that you can be a slayer in low-end gear and a punching bag (like me) in full-proto and that SP core upgrades enhance all suits. Matchmaking should examine the outcome of the player's choices, not the choices themselves. You could put me in a Formula 1 car, and an f1 driver in a Honda Civic, and the illustration would play out.

btw, there's a meta level for every suit, weapon, equipment and module. Why not have the ranking based on overall meta level of each suit?

So when you cue up for a battle you also select a RANK (1-5 seems like CCPs favorite number range) it would filter your Fittings(Suit and Vehicles alike) accordingly...Based on META LVL or Class, whatever.

50mil SP veteran in a STD suit is the same on the battlefield as a first-week post-academy neophyte? Not if the core skills are maximized.

post-academy neophyte

[Still allows stomp due to exploits, loaded squads, modded controllers, etc. KDR matchmaking doesn't, because it is cause-agnostic in the face of effect. KDRmm also relies on less data and calculations so it will work faster. One stack of stats from worst to best, groups of 32 made into games, pre-made squads labeled as average KDR of players in the squad.

KDRmm totally removes the need for academy.

KDR-MM would only encourage KDR padding and ballasting to maintain an advantage, it just doesn't work.

you would have snipers and Pilots commiting suicide constantly just to play with "The Crowd"

The game is KDR. No shooting, no need for repping/reviving. No shooting, no resistance to hacking/capping. AVG KDR amongst a squad assumes that for every 3.0 in your squad that you put up against a solo 1.5, you're having to bring in a 0.1 to allow it (or something math-y like that).

They deserve empty matches, and they couldn't maintain the KDR in said empty matches, because eventually someone shoots someone else. Overwatch is largely mythical. KDR padding only forces you higher up the competitive field probably past your ability to cope long-term. Ballasting (which I suppose is suiciding to stay at a stomp level) is downright goofy and marginal, and almost impossible to build squads and corps around. Slayers, by the dint of being slayers, would have a higher KDR than new and weaker players, forcing them up the ladder to face other slayers. And they better have good logis around, or they won't have an advantage.

Think deeper than one match.

WPs don't grow on trees

Look, if they want insignificant play, there's the yo-yo. The real no-no in this case is allowing DUST to be some pointless lobby shooter anymore than it has to be. KDRmm eliminates that. And, I guess what goes around... So the players will also choose to give someone else an easy match by laying down and dying a lot?

I appreciate the proposal. But it's not really the gear that makes or breaks a match. It's core skills and passive bonuses.
A lowbie/noob is a lowbie/noob regardless if he wears proto or not.
A pro is a pro, regardless if he wears proto or not.

Once you have a certain amount of SP allocated into core/passive skills. The odds are pretty much in your favor, regardless of what gear is on the field.

50mil SP veteran in a STD suit is the same on the battlefield as a first-week post-academy neophyte? Not if the core skills are maximized.

That's the whole point! The Skill Tree is the Heart and Soul of Dust, without it this is Space CoD

You can still Dominate with your well earned SP but Gun Game still overrules your 25% advantage.

Basic math here, it's more fair for the Neophyte if you have 25% more armor than him in a STD suit rather than 400% more armor in a Proto Suit that he can't whip out upon death like you can(this would stop with this system). he's still a disadvantaged Noob, but he still has a CHANCE.

Wow, just wow. Either you are incapable of understanding KDRmm for what it is, or you just don't want to admit the superiority of the system. I've turned it over in my head 101 times. It works. It just doesn't allow stomps, and a lot of people just can't bear a shooter game where they face people of similar lethality.

i would say by your scale most matches are infact around level 2 level 3 mix with a slight hint of proto.. save a few of the stupidly rich PC isk horders who need to get rid of some isk so they run proto despite having no skill or a squad of proto stompers looking for Lulz.

CCP has already developed a better matchmaking system.

The changes you're suggesting would require a server-side patch, which isn't possible at the moment.

the concept of a tuner is cool but - you ARE going to have a group of 6 150k suit protobears set theirs for level 1......every other game...

So, since the only real advantage ever is core skills, and playing ADV/PRO gear takes you away from everyone that it truly represents an advantage over (since you cannot play new people in ADV/PRO gear), wouldn't the only real option be to max cores, never go ADV/PRO in anything, and keep on stomping the newest people possible? Why, yes, it would. Then, squads of core-maxed STD gear vets tear the new players apart forever while your upper tiers stay empty because stomp.

Congratulations, you just removed ADV and PRO gear from the game. Marketing thanks you.

Then, squads of core-maxed STD gear vets tear the new players apart forever while your upper tiers stay empty because stomp.