A day 1 player in Eve can go straight to nullsec and a 5 year vet can live in highsec ... it doesn't work quite as clear cut as you suggest.

There's nothing (in theory) wrong with the current matchmaking system ... I believe it's more to do with the current low player count in beta and the lack of PVE for new players or factional warfare or sovereignty battles etc. etc. etc.

Ok ... first of all ... calm down !

Numbered by your paragraphs :

1. That choice is missing in DUST because DUST is a beta ... an incomplete game ... a game in development ... as I said things like PVE, Factional Warfare and Sovereignty will draw the elites to nullsec for the higher rewards and new players into highsec PVE for the security while leaving new players the option to join an elite corp and fight in nullsec ... which your idea doesnt allow.

2. Throwing around words like broken and unbalanced is completely irrelevant to your thread ... as I said (but this time I'll capitalise it so you might understand it) ... there's nothing 'IN THEORY' wrong with the current matchmaking system. Its ment to put people with similar pevels of total sp into matches together ... but with low numbers playing and seperated AU, US and EU servers, there isn't enough elite players and new players wanting to join a battle at the same time to separate them. The only solution during beta would involve you waiting up to 20 minutes for the battle with your level of players in to finish so you can join them in the next one.

3. To be honest I played with one of these last night ... I squaded with his brother in law to help him figure out how to get squaded together and got their mics working ... we joined a battle ... was 2 full squads of SI red dots in a small complex ambush map and we got stomped ... before I had chance to say this isn't a good introduction to DUST ... he said 'this is garbage' and deleted it ... if they're too dumb to realise it was an unbalanced match in an unfinished game or just one of these people that doesnt want to play sometthing unless they can dominate it ... then it's their loss ... as it will be yours ... good ridence.

4. Exactly ! ... choice being the operative word ... a new player should have some aspect of safety in highsec with the option of going out of his depth into nullsec for higher rewards at higher risks ... as an elite veteran should have the CHOICE to battle in highsec for lower rewards at reduced risk ! ... that's not to say an elite should be able to stomp new players using proto gear in highsec there can be limitations as there are with capital ships in Eve, but hopefully the low payouts will be enough to deter them and attract new players to work their way up to nullsec.

5. Well your idea doesn't give them that choice does it ? ... your idea was nullsec is only for elite corps that are in the top 5 of the leaderboards ... which is simply laughable !

6. And the current matchmaking system won't force anyone out of their depth once there are enough numbers to put equally skilled players into the same match.

7. Because there's always people crying nerf this, nerf that, before all the pieces of the puzzle are out of the box ! I've specialised in swarms since I got bored of my maxed Surya in E3 and I'm glad you bring it up ... it's a perfect example of something that's been nerfed and buffed and it's targets nerfed and buffed into oblivion, I forget where Replication fitted in, but if it was when Swarms launched in the direction you pointed them and then tracked to target ... the ONLY problem with them was the fact they could lock targets without line of sight ... currently at least they don't detour into the nearest hillside, they only lock targets that are partially visible and the launching and pathing arent too bad, but they've been through the wash to get back there. Repair tools have never been broken ... the mechanics they used were easy to exploit ... it was axed from rewards until a fix could be introduced and now works to a reasonable degree. And remote explosives were just grenades and werent being used as intended ... the only people seeing nothing wrong there were the ones using them as they werent intended. I dont really see your point to this paragraph ... Ive already told you why the matchmaking system isn't working as intended ... it's in my first reply.

8. There it is ... you've hit the nail square on the head !

9. One word ... BETA ... if nothing changes we'd be 'post release' and playing a game that won't have regular major patches ... DUST is neither of those games.

Anywho. BYE THEN o/