As a suicide awoxer evangelist, I'm glad people are catching on to the power of calculated sabotage to throw matches. However, it is a legitimate concern that these tactics hurt overall sentiment for those wanting to continue playing Faction Warfare, or Dust 514 for that matter. Yes, the tactic can evolve into an exploit.

To provide context, what these gentlemen of team (A) do is throw a match with speed and efficiency for the Q-Synced player(s) on team (B). A squad of six coordinated suiciders working at peak capacity can throw a match in about 5 minutes.That means (B), their clients, have an easier and almost guaranteed method to grind LP for the faction of their choice, Caldari underdogs included. The suicide squad gets their cut of isk for involvement.

I would strongly encourage CCP to approach this situation with care. The existence and use of this strategy can be healthy for the game when given some boundaries. It encourages an underground P2P economy. Rather than kicking players from matches for frequent deaths there are other methods to tackling this 'issue.'

I would suggest that all mercs be given a security status based on their persistent battle record. Frequent deaths (past 5 per match, recognized as suicides and clone 'died' messages), afk kicks, team kills, team damage generated, and outright FW bans would all be data points noted in one's mercenary battle file (yes, we hear that message given by the announcer, but nothing is done). These data points would contribute toward a security rating 1.0 through 0.0. Low security ratings would limit the frequency of faction battles a mercenary may play with the given four empires (due to the reduced number of lower-sec battle generated by CCPs systems). However, all parties could be satisfied if a pirate faction was introduced to support mercs with pirate gear (Sansha Nation, Blood Raiders, Various Deadspace Groups) for those that choose to fight dirty and play in low-sec, or eventually null-sec battles.

I did consider suggesting that corporation receive a security rating based on the average status values of all members--more discussion needs to be hashed out on this point.