Easy: you don't catch up. Just as new players to EVE will never catch up.

Thankfully, the skill and equipment systems work beautifully to level the playing field: a two month old player can match a ten year vet IN ONE THING. The fit your bring to the fight is the only thing your skills affect, and so only those relevant skills come into play. The older player can do more things, but still only one at a time, just like you. You're on equal footing if you choose to specialize (like you should; this is a squad-based game, talk to your mates, find what you all like, and build a TEAM, not a clump of jack-of-all/master-of-nones.)

This is simply how it works, and there's nothing you can (let alone should) do to "fix" this wonderfully functional dynamic without breaking everything and making it all pointless.

Thankfully, this is an FPS, and so your SP and how fancy your gear is matters even less than it doea in EVE; YOUR skill matters far more than anything else (just ask the protofits I spank with militia gear).

You're greatly underestimating the skill factor in EVE (tell an interceptor pilot his job is just to click approach, then orbit, and start shooting; better yet, ask the proteus pilot that hit approach on my sieged blaster moros lol).

That said, you're right where you're talking about dust :-)

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Hopefully those are just your alts characters
... Stuff that will probably end up getting me banned for trying to name and shame

I don't get time to play much. I'm not addicted to video games. I have this thing called a full time job and kids and a wife and responsibility.

And I also don't care about KDR. I run cheap fits instead of protogear and have no problem suiciding into the enemy. Mostly beacuse I play games to vent stress rather then to stroke my Epeen. But I'm glad you found something in your life that you can be proud of.

I'm single, and just from work alone generally can't get more than a few hours in per week these days. Dust also isn't the only game I play. There's also my earlier point about support; when you're busy keeping everyone else alive, your own kills aren't exactly high (never mind the matches with a bagillion assists and one kill; would be nice if they tracked assists as kills, like they do in EVE, since final blow, even if it did 1 damage, is all that matters right now.)

1) Your argument is predicated on the idea that SP matters more than skill and experience, along with isk. None of the things that really matter are capped, and you can't gain any of them while logged out.

Easy: you don't catch up. Just as new players to EVE will never catch up.

Thankfully, the skill and equipment systems work beautifully to level the playing field: a two month old player can match a ten year vet IN ONE THING. The fit your bring to the fight is the only thing your skills affect, and so only those relevant skills come into play. The older player can do more things, but still only one at a time, just like you. You're on equal footing if you choose to specialize (like you should; this is a squad-based game, talk to your mates, find what you all like, and build a TEAM, not a clump of jack-of-all/master-of-nones.)

This is simply how it works, and there's nothing you can (let alone should) do to "fix" this wonderfully functional dynamic without breaking everything and making it all pointless.

Thankfully, this is an FPS, and so your SP and how fancy your gear is matters even less than it doea in EVE; YOUR skill matters far more than anything else (just ask the protofits I spank with militia gear).