Lets face it, most of the frustration vets have with this game is that, many times, its not about who has the better squad but who has the worst blueberries. You can run around, kill, and cap objectives all you want but unless the bluetards can actually hold them, it just becomes a large game of whack-a-mole.

I firmly believe that there should be a 'kiddie pool' section for newberries below a certain SP level. This is how it would work.

- This section would only be for players that are below a certain defined SP level. Anyone above it would not be able to see or access it.
- Newberries would be able to go into the vet section as they wish if they feel that they are beyond what the kiddie pool can offer.
- This section would focus specifically on learning how to play the game such as capping objectives and the flow of the game.

What this section would accomplish.
- It gives newberries a fighting chance since it will group them all together. Everyone will be around the same level of play and they wont have to worry about being pub-stomped by a squad of proto-suits who they have very little chance against
- It gives vets an idea that most of the people that are going to squad up with them are going to be people who know what they are doing. Skill level will be more of a determining factor than knowing what to do.

And the big reason for this? CCP can stop focusing on making the vet section fair for the masses by catering to the lowest common denominator. I would be far more interested/enthusiastic about playing matches if I didnt think that 90% of them would be a redline scenario and I would have a fight for the entire match.

So if guys have a certain amount of SP than they can red line snipe against the vets? Cmon man too easy to exploit around.

nope..
the more they split the player base the more the matchmaking is gonna be long..
PVE is the place to get used to the game controls etc..
that it

nope..
the more they split the player base the more the matchmaking is gonna be long..
PVE is the place to get used to the game controls etc..
that it

Love when people say "split the player base", yeah, every new mode ever will only further split the player base.

There is a tradeoff on this, yes it would split the playerbase, however you have to take into account "retention".

Here is the real qestion, if you split the player base, in the end, do you get more vets?

I actually don't know. I play Dust beacuse I like EVE. For me there are better shooters out there. I really like BF3 and I really like Planetside 2 (If the range/appearance thing wasn't so buggy). Those games feel fun, when I first started this game and was getting ROFLstomped by Black Suits, it didn't feel so fun. If I didn't play EVE, would I have quit, I dunno. As for players playing really well together, that made me want to get into a corp faster.

Maybe a compromise instead? No Protogear in PUB matches. If thats not enough, then how about going by Meta, say Meta 4 and down or Meta 2 and down. Lets just say the Empires don't allow you to wear the protogear because its a huge war and they don't want to lose technological superiority because you died on the field and they recovered the body.

I would recommend sticking with a training room so that newberries can learn how to properly use the weapons and drive the vehicles.