I think it's so you can form tactics and play as a team together to try and defeat someone else doing the same. Really it's just that, a team deploy that you have to wait a stupid amount of time for.

It takes a lot of work before and after PCs to get it down. Finding FCs, squad leaders, and players to fill roles isn't easy.
Explaining to players that they can't just run off and lonewolf is tough. Many, many players get irate when you lose and they immediately see it as validation that they knew better.

The ringing situation and the entry barrier to PC really killed the game mode early after it's release. The lack of a team deploy UI and the lack of a low stakes team deploy really makes it even tougher. If it had involved more players and CCP would have pushed the team aspect of Dust it would be thriving instead of this. More players would see that things aren't nearly as unbalanced as they think when you can control more of the factors in the equation.

It truly is a shame that more players aren't involved. It is awesome when your team is really clicking and/or you take down someone you may have worried about or defended that district with a severe lack of clones.

It's just like the solo player never experiencing solid squad play. PC is something that people should strive for. It is just really, really difficult to get down. I don't think we were proficient in getting out of our spawn until 3 or 4 months ago. We'd always have some little hiccup or the other team would just flat beat us into the city.

I'll say it again, it's a damn shame more people don't strive for it. It's ******* awesome