I agreed with everything you said, except this.
As much as people WANT this game to have a deeper strategy, etc. etc. etc. the main objective will always be to shoot your enemy as much as you can, throw in as many capture objectives as you want, support classes, limited resources, a player controlled market, blah blah blah, but shooting people in the face will always be the main objective of this game.

I was writing a lengthy piece of intelligent troll food that regurgitates the same thing everyone already knows and then i just said "F it", deleted it, and posted this.

That is exactly what I posted.

The game right now is all about KDR, that's how you compensate losing a lot of ISK. The more you kill, the more ISK you gain after a game.

I agree with you Babar. The only people who think ISK doesn't matter wont make it very far in null IMO.

It's pointless .. really .. KDR is too general as a statistic to be relevant for evaluating a players abilities. As the OP already said:
There are exceptions
to his statement which makes the whole statement subjective and irrelevant. It's a single number that compares the OVERALL number of deaths to the OVERALL number of kills. It does not seperate between weapons, skill levels, compared latencies etc. It just generalises way too much to have an impact.

Let's have an example: My Girlfriend plays Dust with me. Usually we play together and she's riding the gunner on my LAV having an average of 6/1 and 12/1 at the end of the game. On the other hand she's not the best one at medium to close range gunfighting. Now what does her KDR say?

I bet you say: Nothing at all cause gunners don't count .. or snipers ... or pilots ... or Devs ... or Lampposts

How many people are counted into the relevant amount of examples then ?

I have a terrible KDR, so I won't even mention it. I do know that it's getting better, or I'm just sucking less but, KDR to me it isn't all that important when it comes down to the objective at hand. Winning the objective is my goal. Killed me ten times? Yay for you, here is a cookie and a card, but I'm still on the winning side.

tl;dr? qq?

One reason that I get so many kills it's because I stick within groups of squad. I take out Tanks, dropships with my Forge Gun. I replenish team's ammo by dropping nanohives.

In MAG, there's an award ribbon after a game. And the MVP goes to the person who does more teamplay, taking the objectives, killing players within in the objective. The points get doubled for players following the objectives. In MAG, he can be just a medic or engineer and he can be MVP without any kills versus a person who just doing on his own farming kills on the redline. And they get mad because a person who has no kills get MVP versus a person who has a lot of kills with less death.

In MAG, the game could end under 5 minutes or less without the effort of teamplay. That's how quick it is. The engineers made it a difference in the battlefield, they keep the bunkers fixed, the mortar batteries, the AAA.

You know why there's a thread that "Dust should be like MAG"? It's because of the experience we get in there, there's a teamplay, and it's a lot more fun than harvesting kills. Anyone can be as much as important than KDR. I was a medic in MAG, it was fun reviving my teammates and getting double points for reviving. At the end of the game, you get tons of XP for just doing that.

In Dust, you can do all of these things but not rewarding enough, because the game focuses on KDR. The more kills, the more ISK and SP. While I was a pilot of a dropship the entire game and just getting assist, but not getting a lot of ISK at the end of a game, that was not cool. Tanks were better because you can be a gunner and the driver.

Fixed.

I think it was fine the way it was. You can't earn ISK if you don't kill to earn your wins.