I had an interesting post written for you but it was eaten after submitted so I'll try again...

suffice to say if you join a "skilled" game and your not skilled- prepare to be kicked.

Try hosting small 2v2, 3v3 or FFA (3-4 player max) for practice.

Try and join 4v4 or 5v5 as you'll sometimes get in games where another noob is present. Some hosts won't kick noobs either to help grow the player base. You need to be willing to learn though if you want to keep joining skilled games.

Watch your replays (emplies you edit your settings file to turn on recordings).

Play simulation games of 5v5 against all insane AI for about 1 hour max.

Attempt to rush the nearest AI with one capital ship and all LF and/or Corvettes. Capital ship should be Akkan, Marza, Prog, Egg or Kortul only. Only research necessary unlocks (maybe only 2-4 research items only). Skip planets that don't support your rush.

If ECO practice rapid expansion and trade port spamming and start feeding an AI engaging the enemy after your basic trade line is setup. Try feeding only credits while you upgrade planets and build out your trade ports. Keep expanding and feeding for the hour. DO NOT upgrade your fleet supply as you'll be double taxed on feeding. You need to learn to expand with a colonizer capital ship and a small frigate fleet expanding in a different direction.

It's hard to practice suicide because the AI doesn't rush well and you won't get any feed.

if they're willing to kick you for someone else why would it matter?

When noobs stop making all new players look bad, I'll get into some multiplayer. In the meantime I'll mod and solo comp stomp in the hopes of that preparing me for my foray into multiplayer (unlike your noob I expect to get served my first 5 plus games online).

Noobs should also read https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/433802/page/1/

But who reads nowadays when they can whine and complain like a 5 year old who just dropped all his sweets.

EDIT: Since I doubt noobs will read much of the above thread, they'll probably miss this webpage by GoaFan77 http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=116451419

thanks all for your advice

Apparently I joined a game with noobs and they immediately kicked me without an explanation! What gives do people hate skilled or something?

Ironic I know- right?

well I got kicked from two. The funny one was a skilled player hosting but only want noobs in the game with him. He had like 150+ games. lol.

It also seems the price to smurf isn't real high for some people. Lots of accounts with 0 wins that play like Koreans.

Its not and never has been.

Just got to deal with it and stick around. Play a few more game and once you have some record, people would stop kicking you. 

I posted a similar complaint in this forum several months ago.  Long story short, I had played Sins years earlier and just got back into it again and figured I was still good to go.  Nope, I sucked.  I got kicked, and rightfully so because when i did make it into games of 5s, some of the more aggressive folks were killing me within 15 minutes.  I could either whine about it or I could learn and now I don't get killed so easily.  I'm not up to the levels of Doci or Grimm by any means, but I'm better than i was before.

As for me, on the off chance I'm hosting a 5s, it depends on how much traffic there is.  If it's primarily a lot of skilled folks I know and others are joining the channel after it's full, I'll probably make room.  But if it's slow, sure I'll let noobs play.  But I can count on one hand the number of times I've kicked a noob from one of my games.

It would be really nice if this game had a matchmaking feature.
 

I play exclusively against the AI huge random maps 10 player all hard sometimes adding in economy, research or aggressive.  And I know that I am playing against an AI so I try not to exploit that fact (for the love of the game).  And usually I am playing SOA 2 mod. These games can stretch over several days.  It's an epic space opera (and no one can hear you scream).  

If you are so constrained when playing a multi-player skilled game that you have to know build orders and only play a certain way, like one guy on a team is the "eco" guy, then why play?  How is that fun?  If you played any Starcraft you know that being "rushed" or "cheesed" is the coin of the realm at the lower levels.  It's just not any fun after a while.  

So what's the attraction to want to play in skilled multi-player matches?  (And I get the social aspect.  I hear having friends can be nice.)

I'll take my answer off the air.

backs out of the room slowly...