Why put 2 groups of players on one team and have all NPC corp players on the other team?
Surely it would make sense to put 1 group on one side and 1 group on the other?

I have just played DUST for 2 and a half hours and we got our asses handed to us, every. single. time.
Each game was extremely unbalanced and I was on the losing side for EVERY game.

Have the new players play the new players and the veteran players play the veteran players.

I like to play solo but am absolutely sick to death of the fact that there is no matchmaking in this game whatsoever
and don't like to me and say there is because there isn't.

Or is the player count really that low that you can't physically place even teams against each other?

EDIT: I've worked it out, the matchmaking works backwards. I'm in an NPC corp and over the course of 2.5 hours
I had less than 10 people across all my teams who WEREN'T in NPC corps.

What DUST does is it searches for the best players available and puts them against the worst players available.
Otherwise why would it put 2 stacked groups on one team and all NPC players on another?

It's not just a coincidence, the matchmaking works backwards. Think about it, when you're in a squad who do you play against mostly? Randoms! Is there more chance of there being another squad on your team than the enemy's team? Yes!

But like I said it could be because nobody but experienced players play this game anymore because all the BS has scared new players away.

I was once in a game where 16 NPC Corp players went against an entire team of Anonymous members.
The 16 randoms crushed Anonymous, which just goes to show that being in squads and corporations does not always make you a good player, and that having a matchmaking system based on squads will never amount to anything.

You know what happens when Scotty "really" works... you end up in a 2 V's 5 battle, my favorite one is 1 V's 7 battle.

Pubstompers plays battle after battle none stop for hours. You only need about 20 Pubstomping Squads doing that at the same time, and Scotty can't cope with all the people leaving and joining servers.

Protobears broke Scotty, and CCP can't find a fix.

1200 wp is not enough in the academy, more time is needed (10,000 wp for each game mode). It's like CCP wants the newbies to get owned, try sniping from the red line and leaving.