From the beginning this game has had a way of screening new players. You had to be serious about getting along with the game design and all it throws at you the first months. Really dedicated gamers and those with navy seal mentality have thrived and had loads of fun. It's a love hate grey area, a fine line for me to waste/spend my time in Dust. No regrets at all though.

I still maintain some animosity towards Ccp management, however bright the light is down the long and dark development road. We are still here to induce hope in the future and give the devs inspiration and a good standard of living with our hard earned donations to make the game more playable, and most of all enjoyable for new players.

Sometimes out of pain for the player base I'll stay logged on the machine until it auto shuts off 2 hrs later. Everybody should give no quarter to vets, after all we kind of know each other . But take your foot off the gas, maybe a little, and let the obvious newb have a kill or let them have some points, total stomps are not fun, remember when? Lol yesterday I got to be in several slayer squads. It was more than a rollover for the NPC corp gamers. I felt bad. How do we all win a battle, yet really could loose it all in the end?

The struggle is real for Dust 514. 07

http://imgur.com/eaS2UnC
So I decidd to see what people meant by matchmaking being bad.. Lmfao no wonder new players don't stay, it'd be one thing if they were solo but a squad seriously? Is this what you consider balanced? I understand why we don't keep new players and I don't blame them for leaving. Here this should help a squad can only join battles when another squad is on the other side.

Matchmaking isn't working as intended because of a small playerbase.
The playerbase is small because of poor matchmaking.

http://imgur.com/eaS2UnC
So I decidd to see what people meant by matchmaking being bad.. Lmfao no wonder new players don't stay, it'd be one thing if they were solo but a squad seriously? Is this what you consider balanced? I understand why we don't keep new players and I don't blame them for leaving. Here this should help a squad can only join battles when another squad is on the other side.

It's a "damned if you do and damned if you don't" type of situation so CCP really just needs to bite the bullet and separate the playerbase, however small it may be, so the playerbase can grow. It's like with gardening, if you want your garden to flourish you have to separate the weeds from your plants; otherwise they'll choke the life out of your garden. Us vets are choking the life out of this game, we are the weeds in the proverbial Garden of New Eden.

The sad thing is your screenshot shows a relatively balanced games compared to most I see.

http://imgur.com/eaS2UnC
So I decidd to see what people meant by matchmaking being bad.. .

Dust will never grow because it is illegal to grow cannabis on dust.

Even if you were to have your own grow op they would come in and destroy everything. Your clones, your equipment, and they would smoke most of your finished product.
They have billions of isk worth of product that has been confiscated from other busts stashed in a bunker guarded by proto stompers 24/7. Good luck tring to get it back.

as others have said, the example you give is not nearly as bad as the worst stomps I have seen

It's a "damned if you do and damned if you don't" type of situation so CCP really just needs to bite the bullet and separate the playerbase, however small it may be, so the playerbase can grow. It's like with gardening, if you want your garden to flourish you have to separate the weeds from your plants; otherwise they'll choke the life out of your garden. Us vets are choking the life out of this game, we are the weeds in the proverbial Garden of New Eden.

I agree, the end result will increase player retention. Newbros shouldn't be stomped out of the game cuz they're pitted against vets let alone vets in squads.

there's usually at least one enemy squad so I usually have good fights I didn't realize newbros got into this kind of matchmaking. I personally want it fixed and I think it's something CCP will need to fix if they wish to grow.

Heim... You are probably one of the oldest players still around playing on this game.

We have had a series of amazing You-tubers and gamers from other games come and give DUST a try. And LOVED the game until they are thrown into general population extremely quick.


The best Video to describe what happens to a new player in DUST was done by a Girl gamer who mainly played WoW and decided to try out a FPS game.

This is what has happened to DUST's population and why we can't retain new players. CCP Has known this.

Give it a watch and listen to the commentary... This has happened Thousands and thousands of times to the point where we are at now.

That's why you have to have a grow stash .

It's helpful , I wish I could YouTube a vid and show you .

Without getting raided that is .

Heim... You are probably one of the oldest players still around playing on this game.

We have had a series of amazing You-tubers and gamers from other games come and give DUST a try. And LOVED the game until they are thrown into general population extremely quick.


The best Video to describe what happens to a new player in DUST was done by a Girl gamer who mainly played WoW and decided to try out a FPS game.

This is what has happened to DUST's population and why we can't retain new players. CCP Has known this.

Give it a watch and listen to the commentary... This has happened Thousands and thousands of times to the point where we are at now.

Matchmaking isn't working as intended because of a small playerbase.
The playerbase is small because of poor matchmaking.



I think matchmaking is a problem, but it is just one piece of the problem. Having a proper NPE would also help new players stick around.

Matchmaking and NPE issue has around since the game came out; the CCP employees most likely know it is an issue, but it has been months at an attempt to fix it; it didn't work. I think they can't do much with it now and they know that. The game will slowly lose more players because of it and because of other myriad of problems. If the bad new NPE and matchmaking wasn't the culprit it would be the bad performance, balance issues, bad shooting mechanics, lack of game modes, etc.