I agree, but I was trying out the mode because of the FW event. Is that okay with you?

Indeed. You are taking up a spot on a team that would be better suited for a squadded player.

It's Dust guys. I can do anything I want to all day long. I can request things from Devs. I can sabotage teams. I can send you 500 million ISK. I can do anything I want to all day long. I could join the winning FW factions. I could wait to queue synch. I could run solo. I can do anything I want to all day long.

Of course.

But it is unreasonable to try it, lose a few matches, and then declare that there must be a problem with the matchmaking and obstinately insist on it despite the reasons behind the uneven teams being repeatedly explained.

It's Dust guys. I can do anything I want to all day long. I can request things from Devs. I can sabotage teams. I can send you 500 million ISK. I can do anything I want to all day long. I could join the winning FW factions. I could wait to queue synch. I could run solo. I can do anything I want to all day long.

Princess?
You insult me.
I am much closer to the queen of the forums.

Glory to my truly astounding amazingness, etc.

Correct me if I am wrong, but I assume that you are either fighting for the Caldari or the Amarr. Based of of this assumtion, I can explain why you are experiencing these results.

At the moment, and for the past few months, highly skilled players have been, and still are, squading up and fighting for the Minmatar and/or the Gallente simply because they like the gear in those factions. Due to these squads of elite players playing on the Minmatar and Gallente sides, the Caldari and Amarr players have been stomped over and over again, which is incredibly demoralizing. Now that this has happened repeatedly, most people who play for Caldari or Amarr don't try to win, as they know it is most likely futile. They either afk or spawn in cheap gear to minimize losses; This allows the Minmatar and Gallente players to go all out as they probably will not die much.

It doesn't matter how good you are, the people who play for Amarr and Caldari are almost always useless. There is nothing you can do to help this if you are going to play solo. FW is a game mode for organized squads, so you can't expect you to make a difference all by your self.

If you want to win FW there are two options. Squad up and queue sync, and/or play for Minmatar/Gallente.

FW doesn't have a match making process as far as I am aware. It's just the first 16 or so players who Q-Sync and the first opposing groups of players looking for a fight....which is why Q-Syncing is such a powerful strategy.

Nor should FW imo really have anything more than player made match making in the form of specific planets and systems to be targeted..... if any player attempts to deploy to one of these FW zones where organised groups are engaging in region specific fighting they are asking to have their asses handed to them because there are literally 70 other systems they could be fighting in.

I don't think that's how it works. I will select all factions and sync solo and still end up waiting 3-5 minutes at times. So either the game tries to hamfist squads together and then lets solo players in to fill the gaps (Which I think is what happens) or only 96 people play FW at any given time making me have to wait for a match to end. Which also may very well be the case I suppose...

Correct me if I am wrong, but I assume that you are either fighting for the Caldari or the Amarr. Based of of this assumtion, I can explain why you are experiencing these results.

At the moment, and for the past few months, highly skilled players have been, and still are, squading up and fighting for the Minmatar and/or the Gallente simply because they like the gear in those factions. Due to these squads of elite players playing on the Minmatar and Gallente sides, the Caldari and Amarr players have been stomped over and over again, which is incredibly demoralizing. Now that this has happened repeatedly, most people who play for Caldari or Amarr don't try to win, as they know it is most likely futile. They either afk or spawn in cheap gear to minimize losses; This allows the Minmatar and Gallente players to go all out as they probably will not die much.

It doesn't matter how good you are, the people who play for Amarr and Caldari are almost always useless. There is nothing you can do to help this if you are going to play solo. FW is a game mode for organized squads, so you can't expect you to make a difference all by your self.

If you want to win FW there are two options. Squad up and queue sync, and/or play for Minmatar/Gallente.

Statistically, shouldn't I be assigned to the team that will win FW 50% of the time?

While I have finished in the top 3 every FW battle, the teams that I have been assigned to have lost 19 out of 20 battles.

That defies the statistical chance that I should be assigned to the winning team and I suspect something is very fishy about the way we are placed on teams.

@Devs, can you provide some transparency on the exact details of how we are assigned to teams during match making. I need this information in order to alter how I am placed on teams, as your algorithm almost always assigns me to the losing FW team.

@FW teams that I have been assigned to, I hate you. You suck. You suck. Do something useful. Stop waiting out thte match in the redline and go capture an objective. Jeez Louise.

All I want to be able to do is target specific planets and systems my alliance and militia want's plexing bonuses in.

If anyone attempts to join us in that system enemy or otherwise they'd better be ******* ready to fight and not start whining later. They had their chance to choose one of 69 other systems to fight in.