Sandpit, on 10 July 2014 - 08:46 PM, said:
PGI gives great lip service to improving the game for new players (Hey that's exactly why 3pv was implemented according to Russ) yet they've made very little in the way of attempts to actually do anything about it.
Champion Mechs are a lot better than stock loadouts as far as trial mechs go. Cadet bonus is a massive leg-up towards your first personal mech. I'd already got the hang of piloting before 3rd person mode was added but I'm sure it can't hurt.
I'm not convinced that having all the new players (presumably those still earning cadet bonuses) in a separate bucket would be such a great solution. All it's going to do is give them the impression that the game is much easier and suddenly, after 25 games, they get dropped against experienced players in optimised mechs and they're in the position new players are at now, except they may have spent real money expecting it to stay at the gentle pace, cue complaints about bait-and-switch etc.