I was going to make a post about this earlier...

What's happening in your situation is that most of these players are together in a corporation. The ones that get higher scores are working together and helping each other out as best as they can. the ones with lower scores are just the ones who aren't doing this.

The problem with this game is that it's all about teamwork, and random players don;t cooperate effectively. The other problem is that skill points can drastically make another player better by allowing them to use better fittings. As you play more in the game, you'll start getting more and more money to spend on expensive fittings, which allow you to stay alive longer. Well, by making yourself 3x as beefy as another player, it becomes harder for players like you to even dent these more expensive fittings.

I kinda wish this game was more like battlefront 2, where you can be different classes, and customize those classes, but sp would be used for unlocking weapons and equipment instead of upgrading them. SP should only be for customizing your character to fit your playstyle more, and to upgrade things like range and ammo capacity, not to simply make your player do more damage or have more health.

I do however think i remember that there was something ominous like suit restrictions planned (or at least discussed), which in turn would prevent people with higher tiered armors to run around and slaughter newcomers with their ultraimproved gears in hi-sec. So if this is implemented it should prevent people from getting a too frustrating experience due to op suit configs. At least in Hi-Sec.

As someone who is just plain bad: I can put on the best gear in the game and it wouldn't matter. I'll never understand how anyone can shoot accurately with a controller.

Why you ask?

Well the average player in this game will struggle to run in decent gear most of the time, making it a lot harder for him to keep up.

The decent player that can keep himself alive, runs in good gear more often than not, combine that with the fact that average joe uses bad gear, well you do the math.

I have never played a game, where it has been so easy to get 10-1 kdr's, especially considering I started 3 weeks ago, so neither my SP or gear is even that good. It is nearly impossible for a decent player to lose an 1 vs1 against an average player in militia gear.

Proof: Look at the scores at the the end of an average game, there is usually only a few player doing average scores like 10-7 and 12-12 etc. Then there are players going 20-2 and 30-4 etc, and the rest are 1-4 and 2-6 etc.

I personally think that its going to be hard keeping the average fps'er interested in a game like this.

As someone who is just plain bad: I can put on the best gear in the game and it wouldn't matter. I'll never understand how anyone can shoot accurately with a controller.

Good gear means very little, its mostly SP that separates players.

I [...] get 10-1 kdr's

Its a beta that means it can change and right now the RPG skill progression is killing the FPS side of this beta. No one should shoot the same gun and have different distances and damage.

^^^^^^^^^ That all sounds great and I think everyone would understand that if it was happening but right now it seems like that is what you are believing is happening from updating proficiency from lvl 2 to lvl 3.

To the main player base we are just updating the same gun with same everything with

Operation
Proficiency
Sharpshooting
Clip size
Damage

really do we need to update all these things to use the same assault rifle it just seems tedious

I disagree. It doesn't mean as much as Passive skill bonuses, but equipping Advanced/Prototype leveled weapons means a hell of a lot when concerning Assault/Laser Rifles and HMG's. The damage increases on higher leveled weapons is mostly negligible in the grand scheme of things, however the longer effective ranges that more advanced weapons have means everything.

My brother runs heavy HMG all the time and the difference in effective range between the MH-82 and the Boundless HMG's is HUGE. With the MH-82, he gets 100% damage out put for about 40~ meters. On the Boundless, he gets 100% damage output for over 50 meters. That's an additional 10+ meters that he is doing full damage, with the diminishing damage at range being much lesser than the MH-82. Assault rifles see similar, if not greater, gains on damage output at range. The more advanced weapon you have, the greater and more consistent damage at range you possess.

The range differences right now is the killer. The fact that rounds just disappear in midair causes the largest amount of difference between new and veteran players.

You will lose the FPS player base if you push grinding , because FPS players tend not to like the grinding aspect of a game thats why they play FPS games instead of RPG`s. Ive never owned or bought a call of duty game and hate arcade death match shooters. Would you rather have a player base that like grinding but FPS gameplay is not their cup of tea and slowly leave for the next RPG or Eve because they hate shooters. Or a FPS crowd that will stay because they love the core gamplay of FPS game. Dust will need numbers to populate 48 by 48 player games across multiple planets and you wont get that result by telling every new player hold in there a month it gets better.