I remember a time when Orbital Strikes in Pubs were more common. It kept each team on their toes, and more spread out. It seems to me that the lack of counter for slayer-squads has reduced the enjoyment of more casual players, and that more people are quietly finding other ways to spend their time (other than Dust).

CCP may want to consider making the lethal strikes more common again, because they are an effective counter by tactical players against twitch players.

(I'm not saying twitch play isn't important, but simply that the current game-state has fewer counters for this tactic.)

-daj

I remember a time when Orbital Strikes in Pubs were more common. It kept each team on their toes, and more spread out. It seems to me that the lack of counter for slayer-squads has reduced the enjoyment of more casual players, and that more people are quietly finding other ways to spend their time (other than Dust).

CCP may want to consider making the lethal strikes more common again, because they are an effective counter by tactical players against twitch players.

(I'm not saying twitch play isn't important, but simply that the current game-state has fewer counters for this tactic.)

-daj

If we had an actual matchmaking system then you would see more OB's because you wouldn't have a q-sync or stacked squad fighting against a group of random or fresh out of the academy group of players .

I don't know what game you've been playing but it's been this way for a while and the current changes that have taken place actually gives the lesser group at least the chance of dropping a flux strike where and when before clearly the team that was stacked and more formidable would have their run of OB strikes one after another , leaving the other team even more decimated and in a redline situation , that weaker team would not only have the redline to humiliate them , they would have the constant barrage of OB's to rub it in even more .

You MUST run with or in squads because the premise of most in the forums lately has been the bandwagon of strangling the solo player and attempting to incorporate mechanics to kill solo play all together .

Not everyone runs in or with squads , not everyone even wants to so why force it ?

Not saying that's what your trying to do this OP but more or less a general question to an observation .

I believe anymore restrictions to solo players would hurt the already diminished player base and changes to the mechanics of acquiring OB's could prove to be more damaging then helpful .

BW kills solo players .

Lack of matchmaking kills solo players and the general player base as a whole .

More changes to the OB systems could segregate the solo player even more , thus hurting them and the player base .

People are playing other games because they find them more entertaining and the fact that the entertainment of THIS game with instalments of mechanics like BW , have hurt this game but the fact of the matter is that you wont get many that understand this or even acknowledge it , it's ALWAYS something else but what's so obvious .

More people are playing other games because they have implemented so many restrictions to a game that touted it's self as one that allowed a player to customize their own path and way to fight in game .

More solo players have and are leaving because you have the " in-crowd " of the forums that push for mechanics that kill their experience in an attempt to FORCE them to change their inherent style to adopt the play style of someone else or better yet , a few other someone's .

But don't listen and don't acknowledge it , hell what do I know .?. I'm sure that someone will come along and try to debunk what I just said because the Dust forums are known for being filled with the brightest in the gaming world , hell ... look at the great state that this game is in from listening to their community .