Ok chaps heres some ideas:
1. At those pop ups in the tutorial that come saying: 'join our forum community' or 'add friends to blah blah', there should be one saying 'Out of money and gear, others giving you hard time?, Put lower level gear on and enjoy playing with easier opponents!'
2. Testing mode (already mentioned)
3. Half the price of rare items under level 20.
4. Make the starter prenium account 48 hours.
5. Make it every level you unlock a new paint colour untill 50 orso. There should be MUCH more paint colours, this would make designing mechs awesome! I don't like the current red, blue, pink, and green we have, if we had a variety it would be awesome! Also there is no purple
. Let people star off with the basic 8, then unlock more colours untill a high level. PLEASE GIVE US MORE COLOURS, I AM INTO COLOURS AND STUFF AND I WANT MORE THAN THESE POXY COLOURS!!! PLEASE!!!!
Ok so these are my ideas to improve it for newbies (and make artists like this game more hehe)
once again, please give me my wish in number 5!