I will support this AFTER they put in the basic tier of all weapons, grenades, and equipments.

? WUT?

*Standard

i.e: STD Burst AR, STD Charge Sniper, STD Assault Submachine gun

There
Are
Not
Enough
Players

What part of this is so hard to understand? If you try to split people up to improve matchmaking or restrict what gear they can use, it's just going to encourage the playerbase to separate more across modes and make it even harder to find matches.

Ah this old dead horse. I've advocated long and hard for some kind of tier locks or meta lock.

No other game allows maxed out characters to fight brand new characters, at least not without some kind of handicap in either direction.

Imagine any MMO or RPG where a level 1 character with starting gear is pitted against a max level character with the best available gear in the game... And no handicaps are given.

The advantage proto gives over basic fits is pretty huge. The biggest complaint that I see in new threads time and time again is "I emptied a clip into a guy and he turned around and instagibbed me. This keeps happening, how do I fix that?"

Answer: Git gud scrub is most common, or in reality "just keep playing for 6 months to a year and then you'll have access to the same stuff."

Not very appealing for new players.

I have to agree with D1CK (which almost never happens). Yesterday I was playing a match 6 v 14 and I was on the short end. We we're almost immediately redlined and I found myself literally the only one still pushing, the rest had gone to sniping.

I had 3 deaths and not a kill to my name. I slapped on a logibros and a massdriver, finishing the match out 12/3. My teammates however got the reaming of a lifetime. Letting players rush the enemy team in full proto (with an archduke's sentinel and 2 proto logi's on his trail while he slings around an alex's hmg like it were giant phallus) only results in the scrubs bailing, the ones too new to know how to leave shake in their boots in the redline hoping the timer will save them and lets me reap the rewards of people only out to slay the scrubs.

They saw me flying through the sky in my glorious blue attire, shooting balls of spasm like it were my own Alex's Phallus and they were a face to disgrace. They scattered like rats in a sewer, they only stopped running when I stepped on one of them. The biggest and "baddest" rat around...Let's call him King Rat (a rather wellfit name) even ran, his logi's still leashed as I chased him. FEE FII FOO FUH! I SMELL THE BLOOD OF AN ARCHDUKE'S BRUH! I chanted as I closed in towards him. Knee's weak, arm's heavy from toting his phallus, his logi's gave in, swapping to their primaries, they all crossed their beams at me like Bill Murray himself had commanded it.

And then all was silent. An archduke's lost to a disgraceful melee, the logi's mere cannonfodder. I turned, spitting on his corpse as I passed, headed back to the point that was mine, and mine alone. After all I had earned it, I had slain king rat and his revitalizing scum, I had picked off his army of gal assaults he had brought and most importantly I had stepped out of the redline.

With a few taps at my fancy wristwatch I had made my announcement for ownership of the panel and stood there...waiting, Waiting for the glorious battle that was to ensue. They're forces approached. One by one and two by two I slaid as many as I could. They reclaimed the panel, there was nothing I could do about that, not with the rest of my "team" (what a lousy name for a bunch of blues hiding in the hills with militia snipers) hiding in the redline. But I fought tooth and nail to let them know I would not stand for such a terrible plague. I fought hard and I fought well but alas I could not win the war.

But yet, I, Leonidas, came back with my shield and not on it BEEEOOOTTTCHHH!!!! CANT TAKE MY LOGIBRO'S SCRAAAAAABBBBBSSS!!!! GIT GUD!!!! TROLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! o7!!!! But seriously though. I hate carrying teams just because im with a bunch of broke militia scrubs who dont know what to do and dont have the sp or isk to do it if they did. Fix it.

Matchmaking

SOMETHING has to be done ASAP (downtime tomorrow pretty, pretty please)

And imo it has to start with the gear we can use in Public matches..
I do not care how much you grinded, spent or boosted to get it, The best fittings have NO place in Pubs. They are the only casual gamemode.. yet since the dawn of dust they have been overrun with Proto gear.
INB4 bla..bla..blablabla.. it's New Eden brah.. who said anything about fair?? Git Gud scraaaaabbbzz..

@ CCP, you are allowing your game to be destroyed by it's playerbase.. SORT IT OUT.

For reference.. look at the weekly stats for LHughes and viper xsniper
If that is not enough reason to do something to even the battles.. I don't know what is

Personally, I use Proto too much in these modes.. but I am countered by reckless stupidity no matter the cost
Where "top" players.. are anything but reckless.. and from seeing how they play.. it's literally farming...
Faced with a threat "run for your life" and this RUINS gameplay... how??
Because the game is built around CLONES.. they respawn, the fun is by making them do so

We had a match earlier.. DMG v DMG squads, both teams with Corp players filling the rest, an even fight
Yet the actions of vets, they would rather flank n' spank and do nothing to help their team push the objective
Maybe it's seeing l33t players with their 1.46 KD like me.. and the fear just takes over

By limiting the tiers of gear used. And the expenses of fighting in Public Contracts

- Newbs.. can actually stand a chance.
- Vets.. might actually grow a pair in even battles.

Yes the game lags, blablabla.. this is not the only problem I am aware of that.. BUT!!

This ruins a majority of the battles played daily.. the players are scrubs they love stomping.. SORT IT OUT CCP!!!