2 /3 of a team are blueberries or low level, then you have the vets, destroying all hope of them guys improving.

I have been in the stomp boat and honestly it's not fun. I've gone back to basic and bpo.

Separation is extremely hard, how do you manage it? Under 10 mil or under 5 mil? After that yeah they'll have the sp but they won't have isk, they'll still bite the dirt.

Tier based seems legit basic/militia advanced then proto/ officer, that is how you change the game

Balance is impossible. Even Chess is not balanced due to White always moving first thus creating an imbalance in viable strategies.

Joking aside, even "taking turns" it is still imbalanced, as the very act of "getting to move first" creates an imbalance, forcing a reaction due to action. Balance is only possible when you have a symmetrical environment with identical mechanics presented to each player with identical technological user inputs and offering "real-time" or "Double-Blind turn based" mechanics.

A Quake LAN party, for example, is balanced.

DUST 514 can never be balanced due to virtue of having a resource disparity between players (ISK and SP).

Even then you can argue about what is really balanced, as balanced means the only outcome is Player Skill and possibly "luck." But then what is Player Skill? We could argue that Squads are "Balanced" as they are accessible to everyone, and Player Skill includes having the Charisma to assemble a squad and the drive to practice together, which raises other philosophical issues.

Balance can not be achieved unless a universal operational definition is established of what balance is... Which is a moot point given the resource disparity between players.

Yes, I'm very fun at parties.

So if pub queue times today are 2-3 minutes, what would queue times be if we split pubs into 3 different tiers?

Has no-one been reading Rattati's posts? They are in fact adding an Academy 2.0 to the game so that new players aren't thrown straight into the grinder so soon.

KDR matchmaking won't help, they'll still get thrown against good players. My KDR is only 1.31 atm, so a blueb coming out of academy with that same kdr would be put in the same game as me, and I'm running proto Galmando with Kalente's/Krin's AR's atm (Got a surplus of those....)

And what about the old slayers who have been running Logi for a while? This proposal won't solve stomps, it will just reduce them a little in frequency.