A lot of veterans went through what the new players are going through now*. We got repeatedly curb stomped in matches and eventually clawed our way to where we are today. Some veterans feel that this is almost a rite of passage at this point.

Honestly, a new player can do things for their team. Usually it involves sticking close to other blueberries, providing fire support, nanohives and other useful equipment. So no, they don't get to Rambo Jihad themselves at the enemy, but saying that their ONLY option is to leave battle... that is silly talk.

*: Mind you, we didn't have dropsuit slot progression flattened, a warbarge to pump out free SP/ISK every single day, and daily missions to provide free gear/ISK/SP just for playing

Citation needed. What data has Rattati shared with us that says the average active player of Dust 514 has 100,000,000 lifetime SP? Please link it, I'd like to take a look.
Officer spam is a problem. I will agree with you on that. Hopefully the recent change to the experimental lab will help curtail the officer stomping a bit.
No, I can deny it actually. A new player is capable of insta-gibbing people with a PLC or SG. They can provide suppression fire with MDs and LRs. They can chuck grenades that now do proto-tier damage at all tiers and ruin someone's day.

They have tools available to them that can make a difference in a battle.

If you want to help a new player then squad with them, give them advice on fittings, if you are feeling generous then give them some ISK. THAT is how you help new players. Not telling them to tuck tail and run at the first sight of a difficult battle.

I don't blame y'all for leaving battles.

I tried this a long ass time ago. The vet mentality is perfectly seen here almost 3 years ago. Zero f*ks given still to this day. Now it has come to a boiling point where people do not even stay in games anymore.

-Rage quitting due to uneven matches and bugs.

-Cowardliness of vets who have the isk but run away from any competition at moments notice. They see a superior team on the other side and leave instead of getting good.

-cheapskate vets who do not want to spend any isk.

-and most importantly the poor players who can not compete.

There is no healthy competition in this game anymore and that's what happens when you limit your self's in small platform with a low player base pool and on top of all that... all the bad decisions that CCP has made with this game developmental wise. This was a really good game in chromosome minus the bugs and lag. The mechanics worked way better than today. Each role worked their purpose if done correctly. I don't know why they decided to change the entire formula with uprising. Ps3 limitations? The people who really tried and kept things interesting are all gone. Imperfects, PBFHz, Hell Storm, SyNergy Gaming. A game such as this can not live off casuals, a game's FPS succes is determined by its competitive player pool. They are the ones who keep other vets of the same skill level stay and fight meanwhile the low sp players play against other low sp players. You can not mix them together and CCP no longer has the luxury to fix the NPE because there is no such thing anymore. I suggest moving on and stop worrying about the NPE because it is fked.

You cant have both vets and noobs going at each other the same time, it will destroy the game to a point where nobody is having fun anymore. This is the great depression of dust and nobody sees it. If there is no money to incentive people to fight then there is no competition. There has to be a massive change in dust regarding isk, rewards, and prices because as it is right now there is no way noobs can compete against people with billions of isk.

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So you can't cite your source then? The amount of hours you play Dust is irrelevant. Until you can query the average lifetime SP of the Dust player population from a database the "100mil SP average" comment is hyperbole.

Name one veteran who had to start while the common merc had upto 100mil SP?

Or dealing with Officer gear being as common as it is now..

The whole "back in my day, we didn't have things handed to us like these kids today" is total BS...

Crappy as it is, you cannot deny the OP makes more sense than most of the replies to his post.

The point I am making is that you don't know the average SP of the Dust population. You literally have no way of knowing that number. I don't give a damn how many matches you play every day.

Beyond that, yes, new players as of Warlords 1.2 have to contend with higher SP players in matches. This also works both ways though. They have teammates and redberries who are higher SP. The hives they step on now are probably more often adv and proto than launch day. I'm willing to bet they would provide suppression fire for teammates with more SP into weapons than folks had on launch day.

You and OP act like every match it's new players in starter fittings vs. 16 battle hardened 100mil lifetime SP veterans in full officer gear.

I also try to play daily, as my work schedule permits. Don't you worry.

1 vet with high SP ruins it for the 16 on the other side.

Yeah, you shouldn't be playing pvp games.

I mean, you could run very comparable equipment/mod set ups of lower tier everything... But to say you "cannot" run anything but proto is just not true.