You may not be a oldbie oldbie but your still one of the older players who post on forums.
Medals are pointless you can just sit around meding your own character or doing something like that for your medals.
To show your pro now you just need to be able to fly around iricia
and lame.
There's no real of showing real skill (for newer players) anymore since most players are just plain out lame. Though some older players can show real skill others you can't tell due to the fact they lame most of their kills.