that soft caps ensures the vets will always stay ahead as if i miss a week gaming or a few days beucase of the Cap i know no matter what i do i will never catch up, thus once your ahead you stay ahead this is why you see AFK farming so much. the skill system needs be done on EvE time system. the current method does not work in shooter

I dont even know what HTFU means, or where it came from.

The lesson is pay attention, read, do math, ask questions and find a group. You know, real life skills. This game is no harder than the first day of anything. People feel that they should be equal to everyone and that isn't true in any situation, including this game. CCP should not have to hold people's hands and explain everything in detail. If a merc doesn't have the time, ability or intelligence to play a game then they have more problems than a crappy tutorial.

as an exercise try grouping with randoms in the NPC corps and find out how lost most players are :P

out of experiment today i rolled a new alt and after 4-5 rounds of blind frustration that no matter what i did i was not going to kill anything above a basic player, i want back to old character and notice that because i dont play nearly as much as a i used too. im now getting face panned because i don't have the leet gear required to compete. My skill no longer matters at all.

and im starting to worry that the reason i dont see many newb corps in the scoreboards anymore is that anyone new gets facerolled in minutes, and just goes to pick something else up. their are three heavy hitters coming out in the next few months and I know one has already taken a large hit on the vet playerbase because i saw them all running around in it. Put simply unlike in EvE if your a new guy in dust or player who simply does not have the time to keep up. You will lose end off no question.

and before the trolls common here going HTFU. In EvE you have other things to do if your on a bad roll. in Dust thier is no other option than lose, and that will bleep players like no tomorrow, Every other shooter out their has things in place if you cant compleat in dust the vets and newbs are throw together and surprise surprise.

i dont really know how to make my point other than Dust is building it self up for a legacy issue that has plaged EvE. Vets will remain godlike and newbs will never ever be able to catch up, this gap is becoming wider and wider every month and simply don't see how in the current gameplay this can be fixed, my key worry is that 5 month in, myself someone who is been hear from the start can no longer gain any enjoyment due to constant frustrating not enjoyable fights match after match to point i just quit beucase i can tell after 3 minutes if im going to win or lose.

fix the game progression before you kill off your own game.

put another way, on other beta forums i see nothing but people looking forward to its release, on here i still see nothing but problems and new patch is completely untested and already had has holes poked in it. In my honest view this game needs to go back to drawing board and work out what type of game it wants to be because right now its failing to even do the basics right

Reseting stats now or a year from now makes NO difference other then your telling CCP that there game plan is broken. What does it matter if we're a head already - a year from now we'll be 10 times further a long when new people just start out. If CCP does a reset after CLEARLY stating there will be none there will be problems.

I'm totally against a reset as it kills the point CCP is trying to make.

Reset is not so bad...You will still kill and get all ya boosters back and just have to do it one more time. Taking a small disadvantage for giving you more victims is not so bad. This game WILL NOT last 10 years if it's all just the veterans who are playing it lol. Open your mind man, look past 5 ft in front of you. IF they don't reset they can do the tier idea as I said BUT I think cutting the population up that many divides will feel like the game is dead. You don't wanna play the exact same people every single game that is when you know it's dead and Destiny will finish it off or any other game that has potential maybe Confrontation2 with real budget and time frame. IF you reset at least you are doing everything to reach out to gamers and build your community. Either way I will get my kills, I rather enjoyed the beginning of the game and slapping everybody out the way it was fun. Even now the game isn't bad I don't AFK farm I like playing it. So either way I am fine with, I am simply posting ideas out there so the game lasts and not dies.

Lol, I love this whole CCP has to stick to their word junk... What Company has 100% stuck to their word... If they were soo perfect where are they today? The Government lies look at them they are still up and going. Let's not hold them to their word it never works.

Cool - let's just not trust them at all. Yea, that's the kind of company I want to give my money to.

Can you stop posting now? You're just being conflictive without constructive points.

Um if you want to not trust a company because they do something that is YOUR stupidity. Things always change there is nobody out there that tells you one thing and delivers on their word 100% circumstances change always. Perhaps get your head out the fairy tales and live a little life.

That was mean I am sorry. All I am saying is the person who made this thread is telling the truth there is a huge curve and to fix that you want players all on the same level ESPECIALLY day1 of your commercial release it's releasing games 101. There hasn't been much if any games that give beta testers such a HUGE advantage over commercial released players. That game would not be successful if this scares you let's play a game of FUDGE OFF..You go first...

You definitely have no idea what you're talking about and are probably ignorant of all the legal problems CCP is facing right now because they say one thing then do another...

But hey - maybe Bethesda turned this into a trend like Kain did to AFK farming. Who needs to trust there companies word anymore?

What a lot of people do not seem to get is that if things do not change soon with this game it will not go far. A lot of people who I know think that the SP is the end all be all. That may not be the case but that perception is not helping this game at all.

The IGN boards were mentioned earlier and there was a lot of truth in that comment. Many people are not thrilled with this game. I did what I could to introduce it to my friends on PSN. Many of them started the game but all but a couple still even play it.

Vets, let's be honest. None of us are here because we find this game thrilling - it may be fun to play still because of the community/friends/fun drama, but it got dull and repetitive back in November. We're still here because we're looking to prepare for the future that this game promises. If this was all there is to it - just shooting each other - I'd quit right now and never look back.

I'm here for the META and nothing but. That and the RTS element we were promised then ignored.

Vets, let's be honest. None of us are here because we find this game thrilling - it may be fun to play still because of the community/friends/fun drama, but it got dull and repetitive back in November. We're still here because we're looking to prepare for the future that this game promises. If this was all there is to it - just shooting each other - I'd quit right now and never look back.

I'm here for the META and nothing but. That and the RTS element we were promised then ignored.

So YOU and the "vets" should be rewarded for AFK farming? anyways wipe no wipe either way is fine. Let's get back to this dumb CCP is facing LEGAL issues because they haven't 100% delivered on their words for a damn BETA lol you are clearly making crap up. You can't sue a company for not making their BETA version to your standards.

Remember what happened in those game-show Merc Battles, where people on the floor trying out Dust had Prot-gear and we had maybe Advanced? Remember how they couldn't do anything against people who've been playing Dust for a while?

Your a glutton for punishment :\

Early merc packs said there'd be refunds for commercial launch or some such. Commercial launch means official release - CCP says it means Open Beta. America terminology disagrees. That's a major legal issue and anyone could take it up and sue them for infringement. That's a PERFECT example of CCP saying one thing then doing another. A thing NONE of us wants in our company.

Again you are shining with flying colors in the art of stupidity OPEN BETA IS NOT Commercial Release. BETA is pre release product. Commercial Release is the final product release for the general public. Yes the OPEN Beta is released to the general public but it is still a BETA.