OK, I read this a few days ago, and I was skeptical of some of these points. But I started getting in games where almost all my team were players with 2 ships unlocked, and almost all the opposing team had 5+ ships unlocked.
Even in an 8vs8, there's only so much one player can do when you're constantly triple teamed because your entire team is waiting to respawn.
And the players with two ships are simply getting farmed, zero kills, zero medals, zero objective points. They're not going to be able to upgrade their ships in these situations.
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