Find a corp. and get better. That's what the game's about.

Or, as CCP likes to say, HTFU.

Didn't realize that is where HTFU came from, I just assumed it meant hurry the f up.

What are they saying though? Kinda sounds like Hockey the f up. Maybe hulk the f up? Somebody want to clarify?

New players getting slaughtered is the key to CCP's success and community in my opinion.

This rough learning curve where veterans will eat you up is really a great weeding process, it kills off those who want instant gratification (they go back to BF3 or COD) and attracts those who want long term progression and a meaningful community.

Just because this way of thinking is better for the community, doesn't mean that it's better for the game. All MMO's grow from new players, most successful games are mostly comprised of new/bad/average players that continue to the play the game because they just want to have fun. Getting owned every match for the first 50 games is not fun, that's money and business walking out the door.

Add in a Merc training Playlist that locks all new players into this playlist until a certain level of SP or whatever number of games is reached. This allows new players and bad players to actually get a chance to love the game and improve in it, instead of getting owned and then quitting for good after 10 games. After completing the Merc Training, they are booted out of that playlist and can now freely play against others who may still be better than them in terms of gear and skill level, but not to the extent that it would've been if they were dropped straight in to play with vets.

Easy and simple fix, I fail to see any reason why this shouldn't be implemented.

I've had some time to reflect, and man was I pissed off last night that I couldn't get a single good game in, but my original complaint still stays the same.

How are new players supposed to cope with being miles behind the new players? I've heard "get used to dying. a lot". You know what's not fun? Dying. A lot. You know what happens when people don't have fun? They leave.

How many new players do you think games like Warcraft of Modern Warefare 3, or Battlefield 3 picks up now a days? Not many. Because everyone who starts now is behind the 8-ball. What they do is hold on to the players they alerady have, by tossing them cookies every so often once the cookie jar is empty.

Well unless CCP plans on rolling out a new gamestyle, or new dropsuits, or new maps, or new incentives whatever they may be in the future (look I know this is just beta), how do you expect to keep old players happy, and bring new players in?

TL;DR

New players will grow tired of not being able to compete by being far out-paced by the vets. Vets will grow tired of not having competition by far out-pacing the new players.

And yes, I know it's Beta. But core game mechanics rarely get changed. Matchmaking is a core game mechanic.

I'm a week old. I never heard of Eve until I saw the DUST 514 promo on the PSN, saw it was free and decided to try it. I've had my PS3 for a month, pretty new to gaming consoles too. I'm totally new to the MMO thing, the only similar experience is some of the RPG combat sims in Second Life. I get killed a lot. But there's this; after a couple of days of Dust, I was like .003 K/D percentage. A few days later, I was at .006. Today, I crept up to .011.

If playing this was easy, what fun would it be? I will tell you this, when I take part in an instant ambush and I get a few kills and I see that "Victory" message pop up, I get pumped. I get just as pumped when I drop a red with a single head shot with my shotgun or bring down a heavy with my SMG. It may not happen often, but it's happening more often than it did a week ago or even a day ago. And it's happening because I'm getting smarter and playing smarter. It's a learning curve
for a reason; steep at first but leveling out near the top.

So you have a choice. You can get mad and quit. Or you can get even. I'm gonna do that by learning and earning and the only way to do that is to keep trying.