i remember fights were we fought armies with more ep then us, with better gear then us, and still we were able to have good fights and even win quite a couple of those. ep and gear is not the only thing. numbers is also a factor. besides everything else that makes you a battle win.
yea you will probably die in a straight 1v1 against a veteran. i am in this game for a bit over a year and i have around half the ep then the old vets. i got compedative with my heavys and can play with them. of cource there still is room for a bit improvement.
but 3 mechs can take out a heavy. this is a sandbox, we are not bound to the same level, the same numbers and the same equipment as wow and alike. this is different and every try to make things alike will fail for all those who are here for what this game is: a sandbox.
you can not step up on day one saying i have no ep and no money but i want to play on the same field. yes you can but you have to make the best out what you have. it took the vets a long time and a lot effort to get where they are. and one day ill be among them. thats the way this game or eve works. in eve its even worse and there it works for 400.000 active accounts. here you can pilot a usefull pvp bot in a few months. if you are not that patient ... well then maybe this is not your game. (sorry no offense ment).
take your time get some money, join a corp (that may speed it up) and you are good to go. for me games like wow died when they tryed to equalize everything. thats the part where it gets boring.
last example:
when stc was relative new to that game they came to alsbale for a fight. we had little numbers at the time online so we went out in our heavys. we did not know of their reinforcements comming. end of the song: they got my mesmer and were wiped by the rest of our squad. but hell they all cheered in chat and told me how much fun it was to get a heavy mech kill. for most of them it was the first. this is fun and you only get that if everything is not equalized.
then this is the essence if this game. not everybody likes it. see wow had 12m users, eve is at a max of 400k atm but still climbing as it seams. so this is not bad. but these discussions happen here they happen in eve, nad i hope that it will stay that way.
as it sould be.