best to keep it simple. Militia is only intended to be starter/fall back

In my perception militia in Dust is equal to civilian in EVE. In other words its a way for someone to try the gear type out.
The gear in question doesn't require any Skill Point investment but that trait aside is inferior in all ways to any other variant of said gear on the market.

Common weapons like the AR, Shotgun, Sniper Rifle, etc will already attract more users in general due to familiarity carried over from other games, providing a militia variant of more unique weapons in Dust will promote a more diverse and interesting combat experience by allowing players to try out these unknown weapons without spending SP blindly on them (after all ISK you can make back, but SP spent stays spent for the lifetime of that character).

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I agree completely, all weapons should have militia variants to let people try to see if they like a weapon without investment in skills, and would lead to more diverse weapon use and gameplay.

i'm not against this I just think free stuff should be limited. Now I dont mind a weapon being milita if it still cost isk like a normal weapon but just doesn't have sp level requirements.

Militia is intended in my mind to give you a chance to try stuff out or let you earn isk. its not intended to be something used often once you have skills points and can earn isk

whoa whoa whoa slow down...the solution is the VR things that all the other threads wanted. Therefore, you don't have to buy anything, but you can't legitimately use them on the battle field. Comprende?

A VR system would be much harder to implement then to make a few militia variants. That's like someone in North America saying they want to take a plane to China, and you saying it would be better to just drill a hole all the way to China; your alternative solution is harder to implement then the original solution you are trying to challenge.