That said, lower TTK gameplay requires more skill.

People asking for higher TTK, are going to get tore up, just as badly as they are now, for the fundamental reason that the people killing them, can and will acquire lethal firing solutions first.

Why fool yourself into thinking otherwise?

Would like to try. CCP could try this for a week then have us tell them what we thought, who knows.

Getting rid of aim assist would almost double TTK and reward real skill.

Irritated.

People complaining this is a twitch shooter with instant TTK have no idea what they're talking about. TTK is actually pretty long here, generally.

The people who would benefit most from a TTK increase would be protosuit users. Most of the whining for increased TTK I see is from really bad players who are upset it didn't take ten minutes to kill their shiny.

TTK seems just about right. It is possible to turn the tables on someone who gets the drop on you, but it requires good reaction time and positioning (i.e. you are aware of your environment and know where to go for cover when fire comes from an unexpected direction and you can get on target fast). Grossly inflated TTK would reduce the need to seek positional advantages, with superior aim and strafing sufficient to win most engagements. Moreover, it would do little to mitigate the advantage that vets have over newer players. A sound tactical approach is something that anyone can apply, regardless of gun game. If surprise and position don't matter much, raw numbers and aim will win the day. In addition, chance/luck matters less as engagements lengthen (simple model detailed below).

-Aramis

Imagine combat modeled as a short series of Bernoulli distributed trials, with the ultimate victor being the individual who wins more of these handful of virtual coin flips. Now lets say the our bitter vet has a 70% chance of winning any one of these individual trials and our noob a 30% chance. In a short/moderate TTK scenario, there are perhaps 3-5 such trials (get the drop on a guy, get on target, stay on target, strafe, kill target). With a longer TTK, there are more such trials in each combat, making the outcome more likely to go in favor of the vet. I realize that this is a rather coarse model, but it's probably fairly accurate.