Have to disagree with you both. Played other MMO's and as FPS the difference is significant. And its not about skill when your guns armor and loadouts are supperior and catching up is about impossible becuase of how slow SP builds up.

I will disagree as well. I started this character a month after Open Beta (had SP thrown in seemingly random spots plus wanted to change my name and race/merc HQ). Only a few days in and I already feel on par for the most part.

They give you more than enough starter skill points to quickly make a viable suit fitting for public matches. And it doesn't take too long to max out a particular fitting. Their quickly gets to the point where skill points can't make your favorite fitting that much better, so the only advantage long time players will have is more variety in what fittings they choose.

It's not a debate.

lol at these responses...this is not a RPG. I agree OP the skillbook system puts newbies at a ridiculous disadvantage. Unfortunately many of these people think that they can treat characters in an arena shooter the same way they treat spaceships in a fantasy role-playing game and get positive results. Little do they know that competitive FPS games do not work this way.

If Activision connects Call of Duty to EVE servers and CCP gives EVE pilots the ability to call in killstreaks for Call of Duty players, would that suddenly make Call of Duty a MMORPG?

How in the name of all thats holy do inject your self with the medic fuckin pen

Upgradeable stats are what defines a RPG? Silly me, how could I be so ignorant? How could I have not known, after all this time, that half the shooters and racing games I've ever played were actually role-playing games? How could I not realize that adding "upgradable stats" to a game can instantly turn any old arcade shooter into a full-fledged role-playing game? Thank you for your enlightening definition of what makes a RPG. I have seen the light and it has never been more clear to me that Dust 514 is indeed a role-playing game and not a generic arena shooter sharing servers with a MMO about spaceships.

Really? You started a thread about old players always maintaining a lead over new players and refused to respond in any useful way to disagreement but you're not actually worried about that and wish to change the subject again?

Has anyone said, "go back to CoD" yet?

Those are my favorite

I have opinions I will voice them - not seeking your approval.

If you say so hoss. Didn't realize it was such a formal forum.

I dig, but last night I was playing and wanted to try and get as quick response regarding my mic, which is why I thought I would ask an informational questions while I had some peoples attention - you dig?

Well I got some quick responses in this thread. It took two hours to get a response on the thread I posted in the Technical problems section BEFORE I started this post. So you see, I am not as dumb as you think I am.