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Interesting ideas.  I do like the league's idea although it might need to be amended.  The only issue I have is that leagues should really be for the low to mid tier.  I think once you get past a certain point and you are in end-game content then dividing up the player base further would be conter productive.  Especially since players are wanting more player vs player combat instead of player vs bot.

You need something to divide harshly along the lines of squad power for matchmaking. Squad power and xp maybe it keeps players from manipulating their hangar size for favorable matchmaking but it's something everyone can do. By consequence it gives favorable matchmaking to p2p and that's why player base is upset and pilots only made the power gap between f2p and p2p even larger. Paying isn't something everyone can do. People are f2p for a reason. Not that paying some even matters. Because p2w means pay more win more. And pocket change doesn't win much more than f2p.

Squad power and xp was a mistake. More experienced players with under-powered hangars might be able to take advantage of this but then you just make matchmaking squad power and skill. You know how many underskilled people I get matched with that are just there because they're similar in xp progress to me? It's way too many. Squad power and skill. Squad power and skill.

This game already has many measures of skill, most notable one being win/loss ratio. It's not perfect but it brings players of similar skill closer already.

Bbmech has a point, experience alone is a very poor match up when P2P is thrown in. Squad power helps and some further kind of evaluation would be good to avoid friction with user base.

Take this tournament match for example, it cant be a great experience for either side here for these groups to be matched. The high end user has to use no strategy as is basically unkillable and that will be boring quick. While the lower users get extremely frustrated as theres little that can be done about the high end user even as a team based on the sheer difference in power. 

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Why don't you let your developers to fix the matchmaking before putting in new ideas? "Not p2w" and "fair matchmaking" huh?

*bump* Rescue mind answer my last post? Fix the matchmaking and p2w issue first as priorities?

 why  would  the  leagues  divide  the  player  base?  You  dont  have  to  do  the  match  up  the  same  as  the  legue,  after  all,  when  you  loose  you  play  with  bad  players.  It  just  gives  you  more  togeind  for  and  get  rewarded  for.  

plus,  adding  a  fly  by  wire  play  harder  or  easier  option  would  help  in  dividing  or    otdividing