Noob battles. Everyone plays with the same skill levels and same equipment. Random squad formation. Even if it was just a couple battles a day or a week even.

Don't play the game.

CCP is not in a buffing mood. What you said probably doomed AV nades, nade nerf imminent.

ok, Im a tanker with zero skills in infantry and let me tell ya'll: you're lucky to get 2 kills on foot. Every match, right now, is filled with entire teams in proto gear and tanks with proto everything. I was being mowed down by duvolles in half a clip and they were taking 3 full clips of my mlt assault rifle and not dying. Dropships were destroying me every time I was spotted, too. Really, this game is absolutely impossible to pick up. However, I have a suggestion that is not a nerf and does not reduce the potency of the vets' gear.

The solution: make STD gear very easy to skill into. Give a new merc enough skill points out of the box to skill into STD gear and at least level 2 in the core skills. Give them a road map for said skills so they aren't lost. Perhaps an in game video that plays upon making a new character which shows how to join a corp, how to pick a corp, how to skill into a specific field without wasting SP, and then a training course- a boot camp, if you will. Starter corps also need a change. A player should immediately put into a starter corp that is populated by teachers. I know it's crazy, but if new players were immediately given the option to join Dust University or Bojo's School of the Trades, this game would be a little easier to handle. Sure, these places exist, but a new player will not find it unless someone points them at it.

As of now, new players are thrown to the wolves. Sure, those of us that have stuck around have become vicious wolves that can rip apart these new scrubs 7 at a time, but it means that eventually, we're only gonna be playing the same 5000 people forever and that's no fun. Perhaps, if for the first 2 weeks of a character's creation, they would be given the option to only be put in battles with other characters who have existed for 2 weeks or less. After that, they can no longer use that battle finder option.

This will work because nobody is getting nerfed. Nobody is getting buffed. Everything stays the same except new players won't be as lost in the sauce as they are now and the vets can find new people to play with. This game is becoming a stagnant pool and I'm sick of it.



If you respond, please try not to troll. I really want to hear from the guys with 9-13 million SP as well as the guys with less than 1 million. WE ALL KNOW NERFS DON'T WORK.

I do find it a bit funny to read this thread coming from someone in one of the corps that regularly steamrolls their opposition, and I don't exactly see anyone in any of those corps saying "Oh, sorry, you're a noob, I'll go easy on you" when they go 30+/0 in some games.

Let's be honest, you guys (and I'm not singling out the OP or any specific corp, you know who you are) have feasted mightily at the trough of easy kills for months, and I haven't heard a lot of crying for the poor, poor underskilled noobs. Anyone coming in new to Dust right now (at least in the last build, I haven't gotten a great sense of how the new build stacks up yet) is "learning to play" by being redlined, stomped into the ground and then orbital striked into oblivion, and it's rare to find anyone on the forums from a major corp who in any way thinks this is a problem. The free kills are just too delicious.