Experience so far

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If it's any consolation, the current balance team is very aware of this game's skill curve, both in caps and in snubs. Caps could be addressed with easily accessible tutorials or perhaps even something like better default keybinds (reminder you still have to manually bind vertical strafe in Discovery even though it's mandatory for PvP in just about every class in the game). Snubs have already been made significantly easier to get into than they used to be, with us reducing instakills to a minimum and significantly increasing the size of shield hitboxes, allowing newer/less skilled players to at least do some damage to better players.

The tricky part is juggling skill cap along with skill floor. Ideally we want to lower the latter while leaving the former unchanged. But unlike what some people have claimed in this thread, the balance team is not some sort of "good players club" that's there to maintain its own dominance over PvP in their preferred ship classes.

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