Who am I? Someone reasonable who wants this game to succeed - sorry that that aim seems to be at odds with some people who just want to boost their own egos by dominating pub games with their 10 friends.

And for anyone confused, squad stacking means more than one squad, so 7+ players from the same corp. Obviously running with your corp mates is great and should be encouraged but if you want to have more than one squad running together, do it in FW where you're more likely to have an actual challenge.

There's 16 players on both teams dude, squad stacking doesn't change that simple fact.

Furthermore, if FW included all game modes you might have some sort of point, but it doesn't.

You're actually arguing that if you want to play with more than 5 of your friends you shouldn't be allowed to play ambush or domination? What does it matter? How is CCP's trash matchmaking the fault of the players? I'd say the people who are "stacking" with their 5+ friends are the people keeping the ******* game alive in the first place.

Regardless, the game isn't competitive, and playing the same couple of FW scenarios over and over again is boring as hell. If CCP doesn't want large groups of people playing the game modes together, then they need to put more checks in place to prevent it from happening.

I think you're simply blaming the symptoms of a bad game on the few people who are left playing it. It's not our fault queueing is trash, it's not our fault matchmaking blows, it's not our fault that the game is brutally unfair to new players, it's not our fault there aren't more game modes... all of those are CCP's fault. If you don't like people "stomping" then take it up with CCP, not the people who are actually here playing and supporting the game.

Hell, why is stomping a problem in the first place? Because the skill system is idiotic. If they'd fix the skill system so that you don't have to treat the game like a part time job for 3-6 months just to compete, none of this would be a problem.

Don't get me wrong - I understand that the cause of this is poor matchmaking and a simple change to make squads even or at most only a difference of 1 squad between the 2 sides would be the best solution. I'm not entirely blaming the players for the state of the game but there are things we can all do to make it better because CCP is taking their time over this.

All I'm trying to do is alleviate the symptoms of the poor matchmaking by encouraging people to avoid making matches ridiculously unbalanced by stacking squads. If matchmaking gets fixed in the way we envisage, you won't be able to play with 5+ of your friends anyway because the other squad will almost always end up on the other side. Then you'll only be able to stack squads in FW, so what will you all do then?

@Jadd - you seem to have missed my point entirely. I never said anything like don't allow squads in pub matches; my whole post is about not squad stacking in pub matches. Squad play is entirely valid and should be very much encouraged but people should not be going out of their way to make matches multiple squads against none by means of queue syncing. It's even easier to do in FW, so people are clearly purposely going out of their way so they can dominate pub games like this. That is simply not on and very poor gamemanship.

And you missed MY point entirely. There is no such thing as "pub matches" in this game universe. Everything is on a single shard and has an in game effect to the outcome of the game. "Pub Matches" are a mis-nomer. They are still technically a part of the EVE universe and have an effect to the overall MMO game, storyline, and history. There is no "battle arena" where the outcomes don't matter somewhere down the line. There is no "training room" where it won't matter if you die or not; win or not. This IS EVE Online and DUST 514, one universe where all the outcomes DO and WILL matter.

If only we had some sort of gear/skillpoint level matchmaking. Or even a solo only gamemode. Just about anything is better than what we have now.