Well unfortunately new players are going to leave fairly quickly.
I had just joined the community recently and was enjoying playing until I noticed that even in noob only games advanced players were joining up just to stomp noobs.
Their response was hey I like noob bashing so you should just stop playing the game.
So needless to say after frustration after frustration me and my friend just gave up.
The community pretty much cannibalized itself simply because some jackass players enjoy noob bashing in a game that is impossibly one sided and no challenge what so ever.
I wish GPG would just implement an in game way to check stats of someone. I try to alt tab out to check stats and 1/2 the time the game crashes on me.
This is just an extremely noob unfriendly game. I can easily beat the single player and AI opponents are no longer a challenge and yet I still cannot get a game going where some good player(s) don't hop on the other team to stomp the hell out of me. This happened so many times I have a trash record now and people just check my rank and kick me out of games. Even though games I do manage to stay in they complement me on my playing and ask me why I have a trash record.
It sucks really bad too as I know that there are some great people in the community but getting constantly hammered by some asshole who enjoys no challenge what so ever is extremely frustrating.