You see sir, what you need to do in this situation is call a dropship on top of them. I have an ADS, so I call one on some of them, then go to slaying.

The zoom on the Thales is so great that you need to be far away. On that particular map the redline is the perfect spot to use a Thales from.

How about removing the redline entirely? Both teams completely share the map, and can go wherever the raspberries go

So what am i supposed to do when nyain san brings in a squad? Fight? In my one advanced logi suit with a basic rail gun while they are smashing our team with super scouts from hell? Getting wasted as i spawn in? Noty. Matches like that when u can't take 2 steps without a scout alakazaming out of nowhere and blowing you away, i'm gonna snipe. I'll take that milita sniper rifle any day and you can find me deep in the bowels of the red line getting 1-3 kills max. Ill cheer you on though because i'm a good guy.

this is why they need to remove time based isk. isk should all be based on WP's only. I personally don't care about K/D i just try and try for my team. if i get 1300 WP on a battle where we get rolled over and the next persona gets 500 then 235 ect. which has happenes why do they deserve a reward for sitting in the battle and either sniping or MCC sitting?

If i get half or one third of the teams total points i deserve that proportion of the money. i have risked they have not

Were they MLT snipers ..??.. because that would tell you a lot right there .

Not making any excuses but that's they way it is sometimes .

An overhaul of maps or adding some new maps would help .

If one is not so exposed during sniping then you wouldn't see so many sniping from the redline , coupled with the fact that most maps are not sniper friendly .

I don't have a problem with that , it's beats them just sitting at the home spawn just spinning around or shooting at everybody who spawns and not getting into the fight .

Try doing it for a month straight and you will see what snipers have to go threw and I'm not talking about every other match , for a month straight .. every match .

That way your eyes will open up and maybe you could advise some new tactic's because most snipers have tried them all but maybe you could shed some light on the situation .

Stop protostomping and sniping is fixed.

Redline sniping is more of a symptom than a problem. The problem is the map design. Many of the older maps had their sniper perches within the playable zone removed, or NULL cannons moved in order to make sniping from the remaining perches less advantageous. The decisions to remove most of these or change the positions was based on player feedback, complaining about the sniper rifles killing them repeatedly. As a result you end up with very few sniper perches that a standard infantryman can reach, a few that have ladders that still work, and the ones within the redlines. A good sniper will always go to the place with the most visibility of his or her target area (I work with a squad that concentrates on one or two capture points, so if and when I go sniper, it makes it easier to set up). From here the sniper's job is threefold, eliminate targets of opportunity, provide intelligence support about who is moving where, and support your squadmates (and teammates). Sniper rifles themselves are relatively (to other games) low powered for their class of weapon as is (they did get nerfed and dropsuit EHP did get buffed) and they are definitely a weapon that needs to be looked at, but I think you should concentrate on improving map design to support the role, and then people who fight against stacked squads need to, as a pro once told me: "Git Good" as there are fewer things in dust more satisfying than seeing your kitchen sink team triumph over a team most of whom are from the same corp.

Now I have a unique solution you might not have thought of for dealing with a team of snipers sitting in your redline (as you never need more than 1 or 2 in a single spot)...drive a tank in front of them if they are on the ground, park a dropship in front of them if they're up on a building, just try to obscure their LOS...or you could just play the game on hard mode.

to the OP, how many games on average do you play a day, and out of those games how many would you say this happens in?
I ask because if you take into account the small player base, as well as the amount of those players who's role is sniper, also considering corps and sqd finder can form squads of snipers intentionally, you are bound to run into odd team make ups, or off balanced teams (don't even get me started on scotty...)

also, some of the other posters have offered viable options to counter this, the best of which I'm sure someone mentioned is to leave battle...

so, is this truly a game breaking issue, or does it just really upset you? if the answer is yes, it is game breaking, what reasonable option is there to fix it?

they wont do client side patches

scotty is FUBAR

small player base limits options