What can we do to encourage new players to play longer?

Yeah

Gaijin DF should actually focus on giving the players an easier way to play with friends, better friend list, more options, some kind of out of match chat, at the very least to get discord names since the voice chat in enlisted is so garbage, also really putting some effort in making the game fun and enjoyable even if you are losing, because they are not even trying at this point, the games most of the time are stopms from one side, at least in my experience, even matches happen like, 3 times every 10 matches, the rest is split between stomps, and a entire army deserting, and I can be your team, or the enemy team, also, if some one has only low tier stuff unlocked please give good xp boosters at the very least, getting a 50% xp booster for a single match just to get stomped feels like getting spit on the face

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Make it easier for beginners to participate in beginner matches. If this is not possible, make sure that both teams have at least two good players.
Solve the team balance problem (which is now at least as bad or worse than it was before the merge)
.Make it very easy to build a team from tier 1 to 3 without a premium account.

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First of all, stop acting like there’s significant number of new players.
Enlisted has pretty stagnant playerbase. And new players should definitely bot be a main focus for devs.

There seems to be a decent amount of new players recently? They just sit around in buildings not doing much
IMO the game needs to teach every new player that engineers are core of this stupid game, instead of giving them sniper squad at start.
People being afk in buildings/on top of rooves/hills sucks for both teams.
Defenders get bored out of their mind because the match will take absolutely forever plus they are just getting picked off…but nothing happens. And if attacking team is competent, then the defending campers often mean a SINGLE guy can cap the point because none of the defenders currently alive and nearby will move their ass 5 meters to get inside the cap zone.
Attackers get frustrated because you can clear the cap zone and none of the “attacking” team will move in to help. Rally points die because no one is respawning on them, which would prevent them from being killed. None of the campers will build useful rally points either.
So both teams end up kind of frustrated, in a long ass boring ass match where you get little score, and just get annoyed by little roof/bush rats