You make a great point DreamMarine. It's important to maintain the flow of new players to the game.

IMO, R6V2 has offered the best mechanism to allow this, albeit it needs to be built upon. Those Elites from Vegas 1 received a small bonus to start with in Vegas 2. This ability to read historic gameplay could be the key to making the game accessible to Vets and Newcomers alike.

My suggestion...

The next game reads your historic gameplay across both Vegas titles. If you reached Elite in both titles, you then only qualify to play games against other historic Elites.

This allows new comers to play against Casual/less experienced players until they themsleves rank-up to Elite in the game, they then play against veterans.

This also allows veterans of the game to play against each other without worrying about so called N00bs. Personally I encourage new players and try to help them as much as possible, but, I have seen people kick players purely because their rank is not high enough.

This method also has the added bonus of punishing boosters from the first 2 games who are Elites, but, haven't earned the rank, ergo, do not have the same skill level as genuine Elites. I know we all quietly are nodding at that one!

Your "veteran" status is ignored when playing against friends.

This method allows new comers to enjoy the gameplay and learn to become good whilst allowing veteran players to enjoy the level of skill they desire. Everyone is happy... apart from the boosters

took me only a week before i was good at versus.now i have been playing online for 3 weeks because i got a internet connection for my new pc.on my first game of team death match, i hated the players who run and gun at close range.died alot because of that, but got use to it

but ive finish stony mode on realistic