At this point im just keeping up my SP and playing to hang with my buddies. If Defiance has any bit of content and a polished shooter im gone and will let my character collect dust on the shelf.

Well it will be our problem when the servers are shut off due to a lack of viability.

EvE has what 500,000 unique users (not counting all the alt accounts) its core group already has the entire game monopolized so making new players having to merely exist in the shadow of the mega-corps that dominate low/null sec. Where as other games that have much higher population totals allow new players to compete at all levels of play and eventually allowing those who just start after weeks of dedicated play to attain end game content. They appeal to a larger market and have the player base to prove it.

EvE/Dust went the opposite approach and that is why you see such dismissive attitudes from those who have played for years because short of joining a mega-corp your enjoyment of EvE is very limited to High Sec space which can get dull quickly. If they really want to get more interest in Dust/EvE they need to address those concerns.

I guess it was going to happen sooner or later. But now I keep running into squads of them going proto gear and it is usually a quick match. I wish that the mechanics didn't put me into matches with organized squads. It is bad enough when I run into one of them running solo like Alldin Kane or Howdithattaste. But when I run into full squads of them with proto gear I might as well quit or wear free suits. I played on the same team with them and everyone of them went 14+ and 0 deaths. It was dead pool Krptix Doug ugly and I forget the last one.
This is not hate this is just frustrating.

Well it will be our problem when the servers are shut off due to a lack of viability.

EvE has what 500,000 unique users (not counting all the alt accounts) its core group already has the entire game monopolized so making new players having to merely exist in the shadow of the mega-corps that dominate low/null sec. Where as other games that have much higher population totals allow new players to compete at all levels of play and eventually allowing those who just start after weeks of dedicated play to attain end game content. They appeal to a larger market and have the player base to prove it.

EvE/Dust went the opposite approach and that is why you see such dismissive attitudes from those who have played for years because short of joining a mega-corp your enjoyment of EvE is very limited to High Sec space which can get dull quickly. If they really want to get more interest in Dust/EvE they need to address those concerns.

That is the issue. How many of them will play through that hassle to get to that content when their first 2 weeks will be brutal when they can just hop onto CoD:BO2, Crysis 3 and other games and play on an even footing?

Do I win a fight with an Imp guy? No.

All that was heard.

My heavy suit costs 39,000isk a pop.

I've killed several Imps in proto gear with it. Do I always win a fight with an Imp guy? No. Do I care? No. I don't always win fights against other corps' people who have proto gear, either. Hell, sometimes I lose to randoms in proto gear. Sometimes I even lose to randoms in bad gear, despite how strong my suit is. It happens.

I don't get the whining, they're good players. If you put them in militia suits, they'd still roll 80% of the playerbase without much issue. It's the same thing for the top tier players in other corps and the few top tier players in NPC corps. It's really not so much the gear that's making them stomp people, they're just good. It's just easier for people to blame the gear rather than accept the fact that they might not be as good as someone else at a video game.

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So in conclusion from most of the posts:
This game is NOT new player/noob friendly compared to other shooters due to lack of content.

Is that about right?

Wow really? Does everyone in this player base jump on Imp d***? Stop the threads, alot of corps pub stomp with proto.

That is the issue. How many of them will play through that hassle to get to that content when their first 2 weeks will be brutal when they can just hop onto CoD:BO2, Crysis 3 and other games and play on an even footing?

its free and costs them nothing to keep and gain passive, if people are too dumb for that well then it wont how long they stick around noone will ever want them for fw and theyll get bored of pubs eventually and leave anyway better to do it early

I for one enjoy playing against a squad of Imps or other top players in pub matches, I play as a logi and though we may lose the match, I stack countless WP from picking up the dead, and repairing armor. Lmao, shit happens!!

I have to agree. I have gotten my ass kicked by these guys a couple of times but I learned from it and took from it and my squad has been doing great lately. Like it or not, they use team work 100% and that wins matches.