Good corps don't q sync pubs.

If you Q, you should be in FW.

Zero challenge? Is that enough of a reason?

There are multiple issues here....

- Corps may have more than 6 wanting to play together, so no choice but to sync
and FW can be an ISK sink that some players aren't interested in so they use Pubs

- Ideally, you could say they should run lower level gear but this causes issues...
eg. There is a few proto's on enemy team, that will cut through your sync with better gear

- Player effort. I had a game a few days ago with 2 squads on red side, 3 in a squad on mine
Both squads on red team ran proto gear, EZ win... then one of those squads ended up on my team
In a more evenly matched battle, where they suddenly ditched the proto gear and despite my
3-man squad holding Alpha all game, the 'Proto' squad was incapable of holding another
As they did not want to risk gear V an organised team .... typical

There is no easy fix to this as both sides want to win, and some hate losing gear more than others

So would you agree this would be solved by bringing back corp battles or at least a game mode that allows synced squads to go against synced squads?

I'm not arguing against teamwork, as I constantly join squads every match I play. It's why I continue to play this game. People need to read my posts to get a better idea of what I am trying to get at with this whole thread. This thread isn't a statement that "teamwork = bad" it's a question of the form "is there another reason why people try to get past the matchmaking system and stack the deck in their favor?"

This might be a stretch but I've been trying to think of an analogy that might be helpful in outlining why I don't think syncing into pub matches is good in generalGǪ

Consider, hypothetically, that one could conjoin the squad chats in a battle through a mechanic similar to syncing squads as it currently stands. What I mean is that if the squad leaders of the squads coordinated a second action while trying to sync into battle, they could actually merge the squad chats into one chat. I know you must all be thinking "TEAM CHAT" but what I'm describing would eliminate the possibility for spare blueberries to chime in.

Now consider as a consequence of this strategy, the matchmaking would consistently glitch to make the enemy side a collection of solo players, not coming in from a squad. Basically what I mean is that to get combined squad chat, you also force the enemy team to be composed of solo players.

Would the argument that "we're just here to play with our buds" cover up the clear advantage in the matchmaking? I know this isn't exactly the same thing but what I'm trying to figure out is whether or not people are willing to accept a guaranteed advantage from the matchmaking vs. a probable advantage under the name of "playing with friends". Further, if this could be done, would the people exploiting the mechanic be at fault in any way or would their integrity suffer in any way as a Dust player?

I think that if syncing somehow put players at a disadvantage then, IN GENERAL, they wouldn't be so quick to sync. Instead it's backwards which makes it very convenient for anyone who just likes to "play with their friends". I think that if a new game mode was added like corp battles and this matchmaking imbalance is then removed, we'd still see the minority/majority (not sure which) of those players who sync in pubs for the easy win, who use "playing with friends" as an excuse, still playing syncing in pubs.

Thoughts?