So this weeks numbers bear out yet another abysmal week for new guys and begs the question as o why some aspects of this game have not been addresses. I started keeping track this week of the number of Officer Cadet or higher kills in the feed this week a well. Bear in mind some people have the rank feature turned off, but you'll get the idea. I really appreciate my friend who watches me play. She does most of the tally work. The good news Scramblers only accounted for 81% of my deaths this week. That's down from almost 90% last week, but the one shot sniper kills were way up.
Since the even was going on I played a few more games.

456 Kills
578 deaths (so much for being positive k/d)
Scrambler rifle family again seems to be the FTM noob guns of choice. So much so I seen three different officer level squads running BPO militia versions in three different games.

Percent officer or higher level name appears in kill feed....73%.
Where are the new players? Also remember, some guys don't show their rank.....
Now if you add NCO ranks, you kill off another 20% of kills.

HERE IS A BIG STAT THAT MAKES NEW PLAYERS LEAVE
Number of time I died before taking three steps from a spawn point: 147!!!!!!
So why would anyone want to play a game where 25% +/- of the time you just get spawn killed.

# of times some proto guy 1v1s me and walks AWAY at less than 100 armor..
89. That's pure suit difference.
79 the number of proto suits I know of that I shot in the back then was instamelted after out playing them...

Another BIG STAT:
93% of all games ended in a red line WTF.

New players cant' advance at a meaningful rate because they are either getting ran over after the chicken **** vets leave a losing team or just get left in the dust while the vets on their team rack up all the WPs in a blowout game. This means slower xp so you can't even get anywhere on the skill chart.

So what you can draw from this, as I am only speced into Cal suits right now, is that shields are useless, the RR is garbage and honestly a new player being put in a match with 3 year vets is idiotic.

Take it as you will, but obviously the developers are either wanting the game to die out or are not competent enough to make changes to prolong it.

You again boyko?
Hey i have idea, do you want support and coop to spec up your clone?
Just one thingy.
Corrosive Synergy do not play with sour loser or abusive talk persons.
If you will be good we can give you good time.
What do you think?

Let me guess, you talk about photos stomping you. How you get only a few kills and the victims are in MLT suits. Basically, Dust is unfair to noobs.

Dude, I got thrown in the meat grinder too. Lick your wounds and find your way. Or move to another game. New Eden prides itself on feasting on noons and washing it down with their tears. It is what is

Let me guess you're illiterate so you did not read it did you dumbass, and no you came up in a totally different environment if you have been playing even a year. 3 times the officer level players and better gear in the form of Experimental and officer weapons on the other side. You were in easy more kid. Shields still worked and you have ranged options like a real RR. So before you show your stupidity again at least read the post. Idiots like you are half the reason this game is dying. Besides anytime you want me to school you put down your proto crutched and we can go militia to militia so you can remember all those tears as you get owned. Because if you're as dumb as your post that should not be

Lol dude you're a chump getting mad that you're getting your stuffed pushed in digitally.

Give me more tears dude.

boyko

Point in case. Like I said kid anytime you want you want to send an invite. Try reading the post. You may not seem as stupid next time. Its pretty obvious you did not read the post or even understand what the point of it is. And if my K/D were as bad as yours....I'd probably just start over with an alt instead of trolling the boards.

Lol dude I don't care what my k/d is. Its a video game, you lonely weirdo nerd.

The best part? I would crap on you and you wouldn't be able to stop me. Then you would cry in shame being whooped on by a character with a terrible K/D.

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Give me...more...tears!!!!!

Let me guess you're illiterate so you did not read it did you dumbass, and no you came up in a totally different environment if you have been playing even a year. 3 times the officer level players and better gear in the form of Experimental and officer weapons on the other side. You were in easy more kid. Shields still worked and you have ranged options like a real RR. So before you show your stupidity again at least read the post. Idiots like you are half the reason this game is dying. Besides anytime you want me to school you put down your proto crutched and we can go militia to militia so you can remember all those tears as you get owned. Because if you're as dumb as your post that should not be

Lol dude you're a chump getting mad that you're getting your stuffed pushed in digitally.

Give me more tears dude.

I am interested in these journals. I have been playing for about a year and a half. Its nice to read some one elses thoughts on dust. The game was difficult when I started. I can see it is difficult for you as well. The experience you are describing to me was like mine. If I only had better equipment I could show those proto guys who is the better player. By playing Dust you subject yourself to this really brutal environment until you either give up or become another predator.

I think the difference between my experience at first and yours is that before proto and officer was more scarce. Sure the occasional lone wolf ran it and big PC corps always ran it, but it was not as nearly abundant. Now there are a lot more officer weapons in the game with a lot more people to use them. There are experimental weapons and everything can be traded. Its pretty ridiculous if you ask me.I would not start playing dust now if given the choice.

There are good, friendly people who play this game to have fun, challenging fights against well equipped teams. And there are a bunch of assholes who have nothing better to do than stomp a few new players until they don't want to play anymore. Mail me in game if you want someone to play with WHO ACTUALLY WANTS NEW PLAYERS TO PLAY DUST.

TLDR:I like your journal. Dust is harder to start now than it was a year ago because officer and proto spam. Find some friendly people to play with.

hey i can pull numbers from my ass as well!

# of times i want to punch OP in face; 143
# of times i want to make OP realise he needs to 'git gud'; 3
# of times i want OP to realise that Dust isn't a carebear game; 9001

BARAGAMOS, don't get so easily offended. You're not the only one that cares about this game. Getting emotional won't help your case.

You again boyko?
Hey i have idea, do you want support and coop to spec up your clone?
Just one thingy.
Corrosive Synergy do not play with sour loser or abusive talk persons.
If you will be good we can give you good time.
What do you think?

What is a boyko?

Point in case.

Except, it works much better when you actually keep count of real events.
You realize this game is dying right? You are one of the reasons why...
The point is to read the post and understand what it means. When you started it was a carebear game. The game has changed and no new guys are staying. Maybe dumbasses who troll post are one of the reason?

I appreciate the work you are doing Baragamos. Unfortunately, as this thread shows, there are many barriers to entry for a new player in Dust. The same poisonous attitude that prevails in these forums currently was also a part of the forums during my year of play in 2013/2014 (I can't deny I took part occasionally), and from what I've understood and read it has always been a part of the forums.

That attitude spills into the gameplay, and in all reality deep into the mechanics. Dust was not made for the masses, it was made for EVE players (which bit CCP on the @ss), and backroom CCP gaming parties (I always loved hearing about the rage that ensued when the devs got together on their private servers). All folks who do not fall into these 2 categories are here to (hopefully) spend money and keep the private party going.

Of course all that's dead now, all that remains is the hopes of squeezing more cash out of players, and the original "htfu" attitude. Which is genious, really. For a company to release a subpar product, then have their small player base defend it with "htfu" (while funneling in money) is quite the accomplishment.

I always imagined sitting in a restaurant, getting served a meal that was utter garbage, complaining, then having all the other patrons in the restaurant telling me to "htfu", as they shoveled piles of sh*t into their mouths.

Unfortunately, the masses are more right than they are wrong. The nature of tranquility is a very ugly one, and there really is no changing it. Lord knows we tried.

I feel bad for the new players.. I had 2 BEAST games today (34/12/1 and 28/15/1) against a bunch of MLT and a little STD. I'm getting to be a pretty good player in both pubs and PC, but I'm not a beast with a massive K/D every game. I was a Logi for a long time and I have never fit the role of slayer, but even when I go kill crazy, we don't redline every game.

93% is BS. Total BS.

Almost 80% (estimate) of my matches end in good fights at the point (or central point in Skirmishes).

456 Kills
578 deaths (so much for being positive k/d)

The game still needs to be more open for single new players.

This can't be emphasized enough. +1

Just gonna say Dust isn't really a solo player game unless you scout...you just gotta put your sp in the right places and join my corp....

You're doing well for a newcomer. Having low SP is frustrating as hell, but if you stick it out you'll find it's well worth the effort. I would say that you chose a poor suit in Caldari and that you'd be doing somewhat better if you'd gone with another, but such a statement would be shortsighted. Dust is constantly evolving, and suits on the bottom of the pile have a tendency to work their way to the top.

Hang in there, merc. It gets better fast. o7

Expecting something useful from a new player; left disappointed as it was a bitter vet posting.

hey i can pull numbers from my ass as well!

# of times i want to punch OP in face; 143
# of times i want to make OP realise he needs to 'git gud'; 3
# of times i want OP to realise that Dust isn't a carebear game; 9001

Good luck going solo. I would highly recommend finding chats to join and people to squad with however, this is a team game.

Learning Coalition

A chat for players to meet vets and sq up, learn mire about tge game. 07, maybe we can squad when I return

You could sit in the learning coalition for a week straight and not see a single squad advertised or a person LFS. It's sad.

That's not my experience when I jump on an alt. There are squads going on in there.

BARAGAMOS, I would like to have you in my Corp, Immortal Guides. It is a new player training Corp, which has been around for almost two years now. We try to help new players learn the game and become more successful more quickly.

I am interested in you joining because I think we could provide you a better expiriance than the NPC Corp you are currently in, and because you strike me as the type of person who will want to help other new players and pass on what you have learned.

I hope that's the case, but as with D-Uni I haven't seen them in game in months. Perhaps that has to do with matchmaking. But before I joined NF I hung out in those chats to see if I wanted to give back and help newbros. I tried starting squads and I tried LFSing and I never once got either. I inquired with those in the chat and they confirmed that nobody ever squads up in those channels.

Not to take away from your post, but I'd be more than happy to recommend players to you if you guys are active.

Do you guys qsync FW or anything like that? If so, I'd love to merge some vets with your newbros and try to help them get some LP.

Learning Coalition chat has not been used for forming squads as much since I created the Learning Alliance, but I still find squads there or pick up squad members there on occasion.

Learning Coalition chat tends to be used more for asking questions about the game, or discussing game mechanics.

Good to know, I did not realise this...not that I should as a vet, I assume you update your guys on which channels to use in recruitment threads or in-game chat then, seeing as I only see that one chat every now and then.

Immortal Guides does not have a recruitment channel. As a new player training Corp the only applications we reject are from people with names which constitute hate speech, so there is no need to interview people before accepting their app. If they want to get to know us before joining, they can do so in Learning Coalition chat, as I try to get all my members to join Learning Coalition chat.

I also try to encurage my members to ask questions in Learning Coalition chat so that new players who are not in the Corp can also see their question and the resulting answers, in order to learn from them. But if they ask in Corp chat, I will answer there instead.

I also invite new players to Learning Coalition chat who have not yet joined my Corp, or who have already joined another player Corporation, as it is still the best place for them to ask questions and get advice about the game.

Oh, and I also encourage Vets to join Learning Coalition if they are interesting in helping new players.