Dear lord, you need a psychiatrist, or at least a logical look at what you're saying. Half of it is pure unthought nonsense.

inb4 no gungame scrubs

Half of it is pure unthought nonsense.

#1: Snipers are infantry --- takes an idiot not to realize this
#2: You can evade tanks with ease --- all you have to do is actually THINK about your path Entirely Avoidable
#3: Snipers cannot kill you unless you stand still and let them lineup a head shot. -- you deserve to get killed for that kind of stupidity.
#4: Only dropships can chase you around the map.
#5: There are far more infantry than vehicles --- complaining that vehicles kill more infantry than vehicles is like complaining that you pulled out a blue sock at random from a bag filled with 30 blue and 2 red socks... it's kind of a fact of reality, that if something is in higher quantity you tend to encounter it more...
#6: Most gunfights occur in spaces vehicles cannot reach.
#7: It is quite EASY to return to battle, as there are spawn points throughout the map, and YOU CAN PLACE YOUR OWN! Not to mention that you can get back across the entire field, by again... paying attention to the map...

I know you do not want to think, so I have done all your thinking for you...

"catastrophic commercial failure" lol

if CCP wasn't making money dust would not be on PSN right now

Catastrophic Commercial Failures:

Lehman Brothers
Enron
Bernie Madoff's empire
Blockbuster
Chevy
A significant portion of the late 90s dot coms.
Particularly in gaming, Kingdoms of Amalur.

Not Catastrophic:
Dust 514

A failure of that magnitude should at the very least result in bankruptcy. Whatever Dust is, it certainly isn't Catastrophic...

So you are saying because of a completely impossible scenario in which I as an individual could have theoretically made lots of money, the colapse of Lehman Brothers, which sent the entire global economy into the worst recession since the Great Depression, is LESS of a Catasrpohic Commercial Failure than Dust?

Ok...

These kinds of threads,if anything, should go in Legion discussion as something not to do. Until someone (CCP) tells us they're going to seriously work on DUST again rather than just apply hotfixes as life support until they cut it loose, I don't want to discuss important core gameplay features for fear of wasting my time.

first of all i don't believe this and would like to see the numbers. CCP makes a ton of money i have checked, i just don't know the figures on Dust AUR sales.

more importantly Dust wouldn't even have DEVs right now if it wasn't turning a profit. they are just using PSN to ease the burden on their Eve server which is why it doesn't cost them much, although i'd imagine they are paying Sony to keep it running.

i just realized this thread is stupid.

vehicles are not anywhere near as much of a problem as you make them out to be. they used to be in 1.7 but that was fixed and we slowly saw the militia tank spammers move on to better things.

in serious matches vehicles can actually be inconsequential, can't even make it to the infantry because they're inside or around buildings the vehicle can't reach.

it's actually getting to the point in PC that tanks aren't very useful anymore

it doesn't take much sense to avoid vehicles in this game.

start the match, call in a MLT vehicle or run to the point. die, spawn on friendly uplinks closest to the point.

at least 80% of the time a vehicle never even stops me from getting to said point

Slapping yourself in the face, yet again.
You seem to be good at writing things that are easily destroyed by analysis.

#1: You claimed that snipers were not infantry, read your own words back:

Notice how in this quote segment I've isolated what you actually said? Your claim is that snipers are not infantry due to the statement that "snipers are there to farm infantry".

#2: I would have expected you to put the concept together yourself such as "look both ways before crossing the street". Very basic lines of thought.
--Look at the battlefield. Tanks light up a cone in the area in front of them.
--Look at your map. Tanks CAN be seen at all times even if they are underneath a structure because of their Headlights.
--Listen as you travel. Tanks make a lot of noise and can be heard from 200m out, that's plenty of time to run for cover in most areas.
--Think about the tank. Where has it been, where is it most likely going. Make a path to your objective that runs places tanks have a hard time traveling, or don't normally run.

#3: Unless you are doing something stupid or arrogant, you should not die to a sniper barrage in a proto suit like the ones you consistently romp around in. Also, bullet failure is a thing that happens to snipers. Shots hit targets that result in no damage, even if the target is standing still, but it happens more often when the target is moving. People attribute this to latency of the server itself.
Note, I never said snipers could not hit you if you moved. Most sniper kills are not solo sniper events, but a combination of ground troops flushing out other ground troops, as in the target makes a stupid move into the open to escape another unit, getting shot as a result.

#4: I understand those of the inferior mindset who think KDR is everything, are often confused by anything placed in a logical order, so I shall instead tell you what you were using as a measuring stick. Nonsense. KDR only claims how often you survive in a suit. How often does your team win because of your presence? Were you even worth it, or did you just hide in a corner farming spawn uplinks to keep your KDR up so you could boast about it? What about that logistics player who rezzed 14 other people, but didn't kill a single one? Or how about that person who hacked and occupied a point preventing the enemy from capturing it, even through multiple deaths?
My kill ratios are quite simplistic really. I go for the objective and am not afraid to blitzkrieg the enemy position to absolutely demolish their defenses. YOU on the other hand are very timid in your gameplay, and prefer to hide in predetermined places, most likely in a scout suit or whatever fit is claimed to be the most "potent" at that time. Your Proto suits are a major crutch and prove nothing of your usefulness in battle.

I wonder what your KDR would be if you only used Standard fittings like I do? No Adv, no Pro, nilch of that. Yes I have the skills in suit and weapons for such things, but I find that to be a major crutch. Are you over-reliant on your suit? Or do you only do squad battles so you can hide in a cluster and never see actual combat in public games?

So you admit to being no use to your team and farming drop uplinks just for KD/R. Interesting.
Most don't so bluntly place the target of cheating the system over their own heads. You do know that farming KD/R is a punishable offense ingame, do you not?

Having someone rezzed then killed repetatively just to raise your KD/R is rather lame.

I see you still have no idea what KD/R means. It does not mean one is good at this game.
Also I see you did not bother to include your own W/L ratio, I have no doubt in my mind that you tried padding that as well by using rigged teams in public matches.

All the numbers you quoted say one thing : You cheat the system to try to make yourself think you are good.

As i said before, i doubt you could hold a 1.0 KD/R or W/L ratio if you used Standard gear and did not use Rigged squad games, nor kill-farm. You know... actually play the game?

Such concepts are so far beyond your understanding, all you can think of is "KD/R KD/R KD/R KD/R KD/R".
I understand, the internet is full of people who were raised on the mentalities of Call of Duty. Being a Logi who actually heals people instead of getting kills probably confuses you so badly that you stay awake crying at night trying to reconcile this concept in your head and failing.

Are you familiar with the fast hacker role? Scout dropsuit, preferably Minmatar or Gallente, with a cloaking device and 1+ hacking modules in the high slots. The merc should have relevant racial scout dropsuit V, dampening V, hacking V. The merc joins a squad and while the squad harasses the enemy, this guy runs around and hacks everything in sight; CRUs, turrets, supply depots, and objectives (when possible).

It's a very low K/D role, but it is valuable. I won't even go into logistics' K/D and how valuable they are.

K/D is not king Ryme, not by a long shot.

Thanks to CCP's matchmaking, neither is W/L ratio. I've had solid squads of mine get placed against queue synced corporations so... that isn't a good indicator of skill either.

Actual "skill" in Dust 514 is probably a weighted formula derived from K/D, WP per death, and lifetime WP.

I don't think you understood a word that you even wrote. Plus there is the logic of the thing, for every person with a 4 average, there is someone with a 0.25 average. Meaning, that no matter how you try to cut that cokie, a 1.0 is actually decent, considering it is the average measure by which the numbers are cycled.

Now as for those with ratios higher than 3... Using rigged squads, and Proto suits are the only way to get ratios higher than 3, because if you actually entered a pub match in pub ranked gear, I can guarantee your ratios would plummet down to 1.0.