Then, if it was such an important position, you'd think there would be more of them. Not less. I would say a lack of battle moderation (because of less battle mods) is a far greater reason for people to stop playing the game altogether.

I would like to think so. If the developers wish to have more  players on the game, would'nt they address issues of both new and experienced players? I myself am sort of an experienced player but still see this as a valuable addition.

Are you dense, or does it come naturally. Let me reiterate for you, as you ALWAYS get it wrong. Having to Acquire copious amounts of rep points means you have to play longer in order to get whatever rewards are at the end of it. Playing longer per any mission means YOU WILL rank quicker, which means YOU WILL go against higher ranks who have way better garages than you. The reason for this "Einstein" (my argument that the rep points are to much per mission) is that ranking, at the lower ranks is very, very bad because the crystal ratio is so poor, meaning you have zero chance of upgrading anything to combat at the next rank. You with me so far ex mod, or do you want me to write my post using crayons and make all the words bigger. More cry every battle, less rep points., No rep points when collecting on missions. Make staying at any rank longer by increasing the XP needed to rank. This last one (xp) will even help their lame balance issues in their useless MM.  I have explained all of this in great detail a dozen times and obviously it is to complicated for you, so refrain from trying to comment/counter my VALID argument, because quite frankly, you just don't have the nous for it. My argument for this has NEVER been about the higher ranks, ever. The lower ranks have it so bad for a reason, so players are forced to spend cash in order to offset the abysmal rewards, which are further hindered by the high rep points. My arguments/questions to the devs are always VALID, but because some of them deal with their precious money making, scheming ways they get ignored.  

These missions are insane man, I'm not going to grind 30k xp on a new account just so I could get some rewards.

I'm strictly going through actual gameplay that I've experienced,   I don't think the game's at its best state right now, a lot of work needs to be done both with augments and other things that includes gameplay Personally, I'd say Vulcan, Gauss and Twins are the best turrets as of now (because of Excelsior mostly) For Hulls, I'd go with Hopper and Crusader, Hopper is perfect for RGB, CTF and ASL meanwhile Crusader is an all-arounder Hull,   I play a lot with Crusader and I'd easily put it top 1 in Hulls.