>If your argument is that new players get throttled by
>experienced players only because of a gear disparity then you
>are just wrong.

I havent said anything like that so why do you bring this up?


>If your argument is that experienced players can snowball
>faster with good gear, then sure, I can get behind that. But
>that can happen at any point regardless of there being an
>imaginary level requirement hooked onto gear.

Out of subject again. The discussion is about the différence it makes in fights having access to L51 gear at L15 when the opponent of same level only knows how to get at best L20 gear


>Bottom line is that learning the mud and learning pk timing
>are pretty much the only things that separate new players from
>veteran players. If we remove one of those variables, the
>other one will still cause a gap and lead to the same end
>result: new players being worse than experienced ones.

Again out of subject. We are not talking of equalizing the chances between newbies and vêts but simply reducing the gap between them.

I would be interested to hear what you have to say about the real subject of the discussion so please, if you need it, read Navarone opening post and mine again and try to stay on the subject. Thank you.