I'd say no. We played against a squad of third rock the other night and their only objective was the high ground they might have pushed 1 time.. It's because no one cares about winning anymore there is no cost to losing and no benefit to winning so why try when you can pad your stats? It's the lack of incentive, if you win you win if you lose you lose what kind of incentive is that? Not if you win your payout will be x5 or better loot. That'd be a decent incentive but still not great.

basically this





here's a little test for you proto stompers:

make a new character.
do not tell your corp or any chat channels about it, do not identify yourself to someone you might know ie: telling them your main.
blaze your way thru academy, no cheating like quitting matches to prolong newberry agony.
join up with the main community and roll into some pubs solo or with a random group from the squad finder.

Now you might think that given what you know about the mechanics, that you will do well regardless.

but inevitably you will run into bad matchmaking and get proto stomped. Your new character can run militia gear of almost all kinds, but ultimately SP will go into places to either specialise or increase QoL or survival. You'll find kills harder to get and living temporary. Specialisation will net better results but only in situations that favor your chosen specialisation, without a large lifetime SP total your newberry merc will lack the ability to respond to 90% of what is thrown at them, and will continue to live that way until around 27+ million, and even then will have holes in their SP build.

If you try to run anything over 15k you'll start running losses, unless you play it safe of course, perhaps its time to start redline sniping to slowly crawl out of that hole so kindly provided to you via the Pub Stomping Proto's of the community?


I reserve the right to my opinion that Pub Stomping is a large factor in the lack of new player retention, leading to skewed matchmaking further exasperating the situation for newberries.
but hey, you should get on the forums call em out for not living up to your bitter vet standards!


PS: I play with random newberries at least once a week, people with less than 15m SP, what you are griping about is the only way they can cope with the game, and even for them it isnt much fun when it happens. I see "I remember..." threads on the forums, yet no one ever remembers that once upon a time most of the corps didnt advocate redlining (because its boring), and alot of players would hack a CPU or shoot an Uplink rather than watch blueberries spawn camp.

I remember those days :P.... or maybe that was just Oceanic server :P