Honestly, have you ever been in one such squad?

Most squads of this nature are never really trying. Typically the squad is composed of a collection of friends who are casually strolling around and killing people as they talk about the sports, anime, or their real life problems.

The only time a proto squad really applies themselves and goes all out is when there is a similar squad (or multiple) on the opposing team.

And before you tell us to stop running proto, we are not going to. There is no reason to run lesser gear if one has the ISK and/or skill to profitably run the best gear possible.

Addendum:

This only applies to PUB matches.
When in FW, shoot noob face with extreme predjudice.

Lol watch all the people who stomp in proto and officer wonder "Why the hell does everyone keep leaving" =ƒÿü

^Mindset of 90% of the playerbase

Ur kilin d gaym!

This is a topic I've been meaning to post for a while. With other threads of the same theme being posted it is time I add mine in hopes of helping the cause.

If you are in a squad, running full scroto in a pub, and find your team pit against an inferior force of noobs....

DON'T IMMEDIATELY STOMP THEM BACK TO THE REDLINE AND FARM KILLS!!!!!

You're not proving anything and you are only killing the game. They will leave match out of disgust and you will leave out of boredom. You will get LESS kills by using your best gear. New players will quit the game.

If you want a real challange, want to help this struggling game retain those precious few new players, switch out your scroto gear for starter fits, let them out of the redline and give the noobs a fighting chance. If you can't still do well against noobs on a level playing field then you're not as pro as you think.

The way it should be is that we all enter a pub match using low to mid tier gear. If the teams are evenly matched and the fighting fierce then it will naturally escalate to proto tier play. If one side is outmatched they will be less likely to leave battle as there is still the impression of a fair fight. New players are more likely to continue playing long term when their chances don't seem so hopeless.

PC corps have been playing by an unwritten rule that you don't flip the last district of another corp. CCP did not enforce this rule, it was the players who took it up in order to improve planetary conquest as a game mode.

In that same spirit, you have the ability to affect the prosperity of this game in a positive way. You are not a dev, you can't implement balance or add new content to improve this game. But you can take responsibility for your own behavior and choose a play style that will do more good than harm.

Please, don't be a scroto scrub in pubs, give a noob a chance.

Boyo i have just forge and flaylock, they cn kill me in FoTM AR GalAss costume anytime.
BTW im no big fan of crutches since closed beta ergo i was in same possition like newbies.

Instead of this populistic NPE nonsence we should push to corp to take newbies under their wings.
To teach them.

I can't understand how illogical you are. If you go around stomping in Standard and Advanced Gear then that is fine. Those of us who are pushing for change are doing this to try to level the playing field, we are not doing this because we want to prevent people from being stomped.

Stomping is going to occur because some people are more skilled than others. I was very successful at stomping people in my APEX suit using my 'Quafe' Assault Rifle but my ability to do that did not in my mind give me justification to use better gear against people who simply couldn't handle it.

Pull your head out of your @$$ and wake up to how absolutely pathetic you are being.