the key message here is "screw K/Dr, play for the team / corp / alliance / faction! "

team players are winners not whiners!

How much are u TRULY helping ur team if u are neg bombing every match? Lets be honest. Everybody cares at least a little about their K/D. Even those that care more about winning then how many times they die.

while i agree about neg bombing the OPs point of team play over individual glory is what resonates with me, the odd bullet sponge attracting the attention of the red dots can sometimes (not always) be a good thing.

The simple fix is to remove the KDR from Skirmish matches.
For Skirmish, it's an irrelevant scoring system. And if it were gone, the snipers might descend from the mountains and lend a hand to gain some WP.

Ambush - Fine...have your KDR, as that's what that game is all about.

Red dots are usually smarter than blue dots

When I used to play Transformers: War for Cybertron, I had several games where I ran 0:7 or 1:8 or worse, and afterwards, had everyone on my team commenting about the fact that I was the reason we won.

In Team Deathmatch.

In the current build of the DUST 514 beta, I've had a few Ambush matches where I've been able to clearly see the impact I had on the battle, I've made an obvious difference that tipped the scales in my team's favour, while achieving no more than 1 kill and suffering between 2 and 7 deaths.

Why? How? Because medics are awesome. But sometimes, we don't have guns.

Also, Regnum, get that guy running 20-0 out of his tank, and try telling me he has gun game when you can outgun his AR with your SMG at long range. Different players are good in different roles on the battlefield. Not all of those roles offer equal K/D opportunities.

So what you're saying is, despite that you apparently had a wall of 3-5 large meatshields, you still managed to die seven times, and that you supported some very mediocre heavies.

As a heavy player I completely understand and appreciate the support of a good logi.

However, by good logi I mean...

1) Logi does not have to rep me the whole time, only when my health is actually low.

2) I'd prefer Logi attacks targets that are not close enough for me to engage with HMG, instead of sitting behind me uselessly.

3) If said logi can't score a couple kills on their own at least, it doesn't seem as if they are trying (very-hard/at-all).

4) Attempting to revive anyone with a weak revive tool [if they actually wanted it/needed it] doesn't really help them, reviving with 80% or better can and does - if you aren't doing that, you aren't helping.

5) If the heavies you were supporting 'died' at any point, their death still counted and is reflected in their score, the only difference is (just like with every other dropsuit), their dropsuit was not expended due to the revive. You saved them money and potentially helped them get back to fighting quicker, you didn't necessarily help the battle or offset the fact that a death = a death.

6) Please stop using other game references to validate yourself in Dust.

In reference to the "sometimes we don't have guns" comment.

You are providing no real benefit to your team in any competitive sense if you aren't both reviving and gun-gaming. In fact even going neutral (1.0 kdr) is not actually of benefit to your team except in that you aren't dying more than you are killing.

Skill = skill.

As a crappy rifleman, I have to make myself useful by hacking, reviving allies and being a distraction. I think that makes me more valuable than the three snipers cowering in the red line, regardless of my KDR.

The simple fix is to remove the KDR from Skirmish matches.
For Skirmish, it's an irrelevant scoring system. And if it were gone, the snipers might descend from the mountains and lend a hand to gain some WP.

Ambush - Fine...have your KDR, as that's what that game is all about.