What's Driving Everyone Down?

Nope, if Deep Blue played BB with that set-up, it couldn't do better.

 

I do not go into ace 1, I'm glad there's no point. I will never throw a match it's just lucky for me when I get close to ace my team sucks and I drop. This game is sharply divided amongst p2p vs f2p players. So many have lost interest and quit there is no middle class per say. Thx Rovio

 

I agree. Epics are significantly harder to find compared to rares making sure only P2P can get them to evolution 3+. But even if you only consider the gold value, we get
Master 1
2 rare pieces = 120000
400 rare parts = 400000
520000 gold worth of stuff.
Ace league = 1 epic piece = 270000 gold
I don't know what this is but it's definitely not progression.

 

This. People complain about it regularly, but I think this is the simple answer. The longer the game is out, the more players will have higher ships and the more they will penetrate the lower leagues. They're not infamy tankers or some kind of cheaters, they're simply the lower end of their ship tier.

It's actually very possible that person is that bad. First of all because I have people on my friend list who barely progressed for ages, and I know they weren't tanking or anything. They just weren't very good so they never reached 1k infamy on an mk4 and hovered between 400 and 800 instead. Second, a speeder with double long range mortar... that tells you enough about how much of a clue this person has.

There's no sharp divide. There are both free and paying players throughout all the leagues, at least until Ace I. The best of the free players sit thousands of infamy above the worst of the paying players. Disclaimer: I can't see whether someone had VIP of course, what I mean with best of the free players is best player who didn't buy items, and is running rares and low tier epics like most of us.

 

I thought of the same thing up until now. But honestly, I think it mainly has to do with decline in number of players. I've been around 23-2400 for a month now, and used to get paired against people within + - 100 infamy range. But lately the difference has dramatically increased to 400 - 500 infamy. I get paired against either people in 2900s or 2000s simply due to lack of players. It's same as Ace 1 and Nightmare scene. And will seep into lower infamy as playerbase grows smaller. When someone clicks "BATTLE" with mk6 ship at 2500 and only players online are people with mk4 at around 1500s, what are you going to do, not give them a Match?