Gee, I wonder why they're boring as hell.

I'm in favor of raising payouts because the people getting their d!cks kicked in can barely afford to run advanced. But I'm not in favor of everyone running proto all the time. It was supposed to be rare, something you'd only pull out in matches that mattered and officer even more so.

It's not the full proto matches that are fun, it's the equally matched matches that are fun.

You're right the proto ain't the problem but all those lvl 5 bonuses are less of an advantage on adv and less than they are on proto so locking it out helps alleviate the problem. The real problem is the bag of d!cks that is people like you.

No, what I want is for Concord to attack anyone that spawns in proto/officer in pubs. That's not going to happen and we'll never get a proper matchmaker because people like you keep the player base from growing; so something else has got to be done

Nobody ever complains about the militia/standard/advanced stompers either, nobody.

If you are, as you say a new player then you are a very small minority in the game.

If you're constantly making it out of the redline and to objectives regardless of how much you get done when you get there then you're doing better than the majority of the playerbase.

I didn't get stomped; I joined at the end of the match. And it wasn't Romulus Hex, it was Jera13 (or something like that). I caught him camping and taking out newberries from a distance so I killed him.

I'm actually in favor of raising payouts so EVERYONE can run proto.

That is so short sighted. What about the new players that can't run proto? You're suggesting to throw them in matches with even more people in proto?

If suits are a minute factor in a much larger scheme, why do you suggest a change that will allow everyone with the SP to run them full time? If they're a minute factor, why are matches fun as hell when everyone is wearing them? Because you get close matches? Because putting everyone in the same tier gear tends to even out the playing field? You want to believe that running proto isn't a big deal but you've inadvertently highlighted why it is.

I'm willing to concede I'm wrong here, but I don't think it takes 3 weeks to get into a proto suit, with complex armor mods and/or complex shield mods, complex damage mods and a proto gun. Then you've got to get the core skills to be able to fit that stuff, and whatever other complex stuff you need like kincats/precisions/range amps etc. All this while earning less WP/match and thus considerably less SP/match as a new player.

Do you really think the scores in the OPs match would have been that much different if the squad that actually played was only in advanced gear?


Of course I can't say yes or no for sure, but what I can say is that pro provides a measurable, additional amout of EHP and DPS than you get with adv. It's likely that a number of engagements would have ended differently.

I know, and the grind is a mother.

More starting skills, enough to use every standard module, drop suit cores at 3, and light weapons operation 4 with a starting unallocated of 750 would be rough starting point.