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Heimdallr69
Imperfects Negative-Feedback
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Posted - 2015.01.15 20:50:00 -
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http://imgur.com/eaS2UnC So I decidd to see what people meant by matchmaking being bad.. Lmfao no wonder new players don't stay, it'd be one thing if they were solo but a squad seriously? Is this what you consider balanced? I understand why we don't keep new players and I don't blame them for leaving. Here this should help a squad can only join battles when another squad is on the other side.
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gustavo acosta
Capital Acquisitions LLC Bad Intention
697
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Posted - 2015.01.15 20:58:00 -
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Scotty knew it was your alt. so he figured you'd carry the team.
GimmeDatSuhWeet isk
We need a new pope to teach shield users how to shield tank
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Ripley Riley
Incorruptibles
6689
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Posted - 2015.01.15 21:01:00 -
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Matchmaking isn't working as intended because of a small playerbase. The playerbase is small because of poor matchmaking.
I think matching is a problem, but it is just one piece of the problem. Having a proper NPE would also help new players stick around.
Just call me Ripple. Ripple Riley.
@Ripley_Riley
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Loaded'Horn
KILL-EM-QUICK RISE of LEGION
140
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Posted - 2015.01.15 23:08:00 -
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From the beginning this game has had a way of screening new players. You had to be serious about getting along with the game design and all it throws at you the first months. Really dedicated gamers and those with navy seal mentality have thrived and had loads of fun. It's a love hate grey area, a fine line for me to waste/spend my time in Dust. No regrets at all though.
I still maintain some animosity towards Ccp management, however bright the light is down the long and dark development road. We are still here to induce hope in the future and give the devs inspiration and a good standard of living with our hard earned donations to make the game more playable, and most of all enjoyable for new players.
Sometimes out of pain for the player base I'll stay logged on the machine until it auto shuts off 2 hrs later. Everybody should give no quarter to vets, after all we kind of know each other . But take your foot off the gas, maybe a little, and let the obvious newb have a kill or let them have some points, total stomps are not fun, remember when? Lol yesterday I got to be in several slayer squads. It was more than a rollover for the NPC corp gamers. I felt bad. How do we all win a battle, yet really could loose it all in the end?
The struggle is real for Dust 514. 07
First day open beta. I play for points.
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Heimdallr69
Imperfects Negative-Feedback
4355
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Posted - 2015.01.15 23:15:00 -
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Loaded'Horn wrote:From the beginning this game has had a way of screening new players. You had to be serious about getting along with the game design and all it throws at you the first months. Really dedicated gamers and those with navy seal mentality have thrived and had loads of fun. It's a love hate grey area, a fine line for me to waste/spend my time in Dust. No regrets at all though.
I still maintain some animosity towards Ccp management, however bright the light is down the long and dark development road. We are still here to induce hope in the future and give the devs inspiration and a good standard of living with our hard earned donations to make the game more playable, and most of all enjoyable for new players.
Sometimes out of pain for the player base I'll stay logged on the machine until it auto shuts off 2 hrs later. Everybody should give no quarter to vets, after all we kind of know each other . But take your foot off the gas, maybe a little, and let the obvious newb have a kill or let them have some points, total stomps are not fun, remember when? Lol yesterday I got to be in several slayer squads. It was more than a rollover for the NPC corp gamers. I felt bad. How do we all win a battle, yet really could loose it all in the end?
The struggle is real for Dust 514. 07 I have a few alts I like to play on, none have proto or core upgrades just fun to mess around with.
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Leadfoot10
Molon Labe. General Tso's Alliance
2883
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Posted - 2015.01.15 23:41:00 -
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The most imbalanced matches are when you have one quality squad on one side and random blueberries (or a really weak squad) on the other.
The screenshot posted by the OP seems to be an example of the above. |
Union118
MONSTER SYNERGY
333
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Posted - 2015.01.16 00:02:00 -
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Heimdallr69 wrote:http://imgur.com/eaS2UnC So I decidd to see what people meant by matchmaking being bad.. Lmfao no wonder new players don't stay, it'd be one thing if they were solo but a squad seriously? Is this what you consider balanced? I understand why we don't keep new players and I don't blame them for leaving. Here this should help a squad can only join battles when another squad is on the other side. Im glad to see imperfects are back.
Starter Fit Suits are OP :-)
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Thumb Green
Raymond James Corp
2004
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Posted - 2015.01.16 00:36:00 -
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Ripley Riley wrote:Matchmaking isn't working as intended because of a small playerbase. The playerbase is small because of poor matchmaking.
It's a "damned if you do and damned if you don't" type of situation so CCP really just needs to bite the bullet and separate the playerbase, however small it may be, so the playerbase can grow. It's like with gardening, if you want your garden to flourish you have to separate the weeds from your plants; otherwise they'll choke the life out of your garden. Us vets are choking the life out of this game, we are the weeds in the proverbial Garden of New Eden.
[RYJC]
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Nothing Certain
Bioshock Rejects
1467
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Posted - 2015.01.16 01:54:00 -
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The sad thing is your screenshot shows a relatively balanced games compared to most I see.
Because, that's why.
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Union118
MONSTER SYNERGY
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Posted - 2015.01.16 02:12:00 -
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Heimdallr69 wrote:http://imgur.com/eaS2UnC So I decidd to see what people meant by matchmaking being bad.. Lmfao no wonder new players don't stay, it'd be one thing if they were solo but a squad seriously? Is this what you consider balanced? I understand why we don't keep new players and I don't blame them for leaving. Here this should help a squad can only join battles when another squad is on the other side. Dust will never grow because it is illegal to grow cannabis on dust.
Even if you were to have your own grow op they would come in and destroy everything. Your clones, your equipment, and they would smoke most of your finished product. They have billions of isk worth of product that has been confiscated from other busts stashed in a bunker guarded by proto stompers 24/7. Good luck tring to get it back.
Starter Fit Suits are OP :-)
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Heimdallr69
Imperfects Negative-Feedback
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Posted - 2015.01.16 02:16:00 -
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Thumb Green wrote:Ripley Riley wrote:Matchmaking isn't working as intended because of a small playerbase. The playerbase is small because of poor matchmaking. It's a "damned if you do and damned if you don't" type of situation so CCP really just needs to bite the bullet and separate the playerbase, however small it may be, so the playerbase can grow. It's like with gardening, if you want your garden to flourish you have to separate the weeds from your plants; otherwise they'll choke the life out of your garden. Us vets are choking the life out of this game, we are the weeds in the proverbial Garden of New Eden. I agree, the end result will increase player retention. Newbros shouldn't be stomped out of the game cuz they're pitted against vets let alone vets in squads.
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Shinobi MumyoSakanagare ZaShigurui
Onikanabo Brigade Caldari State
1710
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Posted - 2015.01.16 02:18:00 -
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Nothing Certain wrote:The sad thing is your screenshot shows a relatively balanced games compared to most I see. Like you said , it's balanced to what your use to seeing and I was thinking the same thing because that's what I see everyday I play .
Sometimes worse .
Most of the time worse .
Doubts are like flies and should be treated as such and crushed .
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jane stalin
Ametat Security Amarr Empire
93
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Posted - 2015.01.16 02:19:00 -
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Heimdallr69 wrote:http://imgur.com/eaS2UnC So I decidd to see what people meant by matchmaking being bad.. .
as others have said, the example you give is not nearly as bad as the worst stomps I have seen
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Shinobi MumyoSakanagare ZaShigurui
Onikanabo Brigade Caldari State
1710
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Posted - 2015.01.16 02:19:00 -
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Union118 wrote:Heimdallr69 wrote:http://imgur.com/eaS2UnC So I decidd to see what people meant by matchmaking being bad.. Lmfao no wonder new players don't stay, it'd be one thing if they were solo but a squad seriously? Is this what you consider balanced? I understand why we don't keep new players and I don't blame them for leaving. Here this should help a squad can only join battles when another squad is on the other side. Dust will never grow because it is illegal to grow cannabis on dust. Even if you were to have your own grow op they would come in and destroy everything. Your clones, your equipment, and they would smoke most of your finished product. They have billions of isk worth of product that has been confiscated from other busts stashed in a bunker guarded by proto stompers 24/7. Good luck tring to get it back. That's why you have to have a grow stash .
It's helpful , I wish I could YouTube a vid and show you .
Without getting raided that is .
Doubts are like flies and should be treated as such and crushed .
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Heimdallr69
Imperfects Negative-Feedback
4358
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Posted - 2015.01.16 02:23:00 -
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jane stalin wrote:Heimdallr69 wrote:http://imgur.com/eaS2UnC So I decidd to see what people meant by matchmaking being bad.. . as others have said, the example you give is not nearly as bad as the worst stomps I have seen there's usually at least one enemy squad so I usually have good fights I didn't realize newbros got into this kind of matchmaking. I personally want it fixed and I think it's something CCP will need to fix if they wish to grow.
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Loaded'Horn
KILL-EM-QUICK RISE of LEGION
141
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Posted - 2015.01.16 02:30:00 -
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Thumb Green wrote:Ripley Riley wrote:Matchmaking isn't working as intended because of a small playerbase. The playerbase is small because of poor matchmaking. It's a "damned if you do and damned if you don't" type of situation so CCP really just needs to bite the bullet and separate the playerbase, however small it may be, so the playerbase can grow. It's like with gardening, if you want your garden to flourish you have to separate the weeds from your plants; otherwise they'll choke the life out of your garden. Us vets are choking the life out of this game, we are the weeds in the proverbial Garden of New Eden.
In retrospect MM should have been in effect since "release" on 5/14/13. We could have retained 1000's of players, however that clearly was not the only factor. This ever present balance wobble has always been a major factor to those that did try to hang on, and many after that could not deal with latency and mechanical side affects. Do I even have to mention the FF party where our hopes were left to die. We were shocked and totally pissed. It's much better now, but still, our memories don't die.
There is this meta/philosophy built in Dust that makes you deal with a open type universe. A place where risk is rooted deep in the game play, as in no matchmaking, only the strong will survive, with clones being respawned our only way forward. Ccp must have intended the game to be this way. Ideally I would to. It does not work for everyone though, clearly. A lot of players just don't get it, new and old are overwhelmed buy this game still. It's really a Pc style game on console. I came from PC and now I only play Dust. Don't laugh it all I have time for. After nearly 2 years I still don't get all the mechanics, that makes me want more, do more. And most importantly participate in a game I want to succeed. Just help those new mercs in local, and give them a somewhat brighter outlook than just being tossed in a meat grinder.
First day open beta. I play for points.
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Cavani1EE7
Murphys-Law
853
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Posted - 2015.01.16 02:39:00 -
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LOL that's the match in which I died four times due to the redline tryna take off an amarr proto heavy with a Thale and two proto logis stick on his arse. In the fourth attempt I got him and the other full bricktanked logis; it was def worth the deaths.
10100111001
Shield tanking is hard mode /period.
10100111001
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Heimdallr69
Imperfects Negative-Feedback
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Posted - 2015.01.16 02:58:00 -
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For those of you wondering the Thales was not me =ƒÿÆ
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LAVALLOIS Nash
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Posted - 2015.01.16 03:42:00 -
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Heimdallr69 wrote: I agree, the end result will increase player retention. Newbros shouldn't be stomped out of the game cuz they're pitted against vets let alone vets in squads.
People have been saying it for a long time. There has been a endless stream of newcomers who post on the forums about how unreasonable alot of their games are, and instead of people acknowledging it, they heckle the new player and side with the people doing the stomps.
I opened an alt account recently to try out the "improved" NPE. As soon as i got out of academy, there were plenty of games with the people you pictured and similar folks who would make a beeline for you as soon as they realized I was a low SP account in a frontline fit. Sometimes they would even let an objective get overrrun so they could farm me and a few other milita fits at an outlying CRU.
CCP can make all the changes they want, but it wont be as good as can be if the community mentality doesn't change. People have to realize that "Public Contract" should be the jump in jump out somewhat casual mode that helps retain a healthy playerbase. If you have a healthy playerbase in the casual mode, its alot easier for players to develop themselves and seek bigger adventures like FW and Planetary. Ive been in public matches with respectable vets who see the lopsided situation ,and put the proto fits away come after us with ADV sidearms. They still win, but its alot more fun to lose when you feel like you "almost killed that guy a bunch of times" rather than when you had absolutely no chance.
Just for the record though, when I get stomped in FW, im ok with that, because its supposed to be a competitive mode. When i queue for FW I know full well what im getting myself into. When i get stomped, i take my beating and queue for the next match after its over. Thats what FW is all about. Public matches though, is not supposed to be that. |
Joel II X
Bacon with a bottle of Quafe
5517
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Posted - 2015.01.16 04:11:00 -
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This happened because Death the Kid only dual wields pistols, he doesn't carry a rifle, nor does he use only one pistol at a time, which this game doesn't allow. |
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Aeon Amadi
Chimera Core
7891
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Posted - 2015.01.16 04:15:00 -
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Working as intended, just like the rest of the game.
I am... La línea roja artillero..!
Tears collected from Redline sniping -:- 45
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Bethhy
Ancient Exiles.
3129
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Posted - 2015.01.16 04:33:00 -
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Heimdallr69 wrote:jane stalin wrote:Heimdallr69 wrote:http://imgur.com/eaS2UnC So I decidd to see what people meant by matchmaking being bad.. . as others have said, the example you give is not nearly as bad as the worst stomps I have seen there's usually at least one enemy squad so I usually have good fights I didn't realize newbros got into this kind of matchmaking. I personally want it fixed and I think it's something CCP will need to fix if they wish to grow.
Heim... You are probably one of the oldest players still around playing on this game.
We have had a series of amazing You-tubers and gamers from other games come and give DUST a try. And LOVED the game until they are thrown into general population extremely quick.
The best Video to describe what happens to a new player in DUST was done by a Girl gamer who mainly played WoW and decided to try out a FPS game.
This is what has happened to DUST's population and why we can't retain new players. CCP Has known this.
Give it a watch and listen to the commentary... This has happened Thousands and thousands of times to the point where we are at now. |
Heimdallr69
Imperfects Negative-Feedback
4365
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Posted - 2015.01.16 04:41:00 -
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Bethhy wrote:Heimdallr69 wrote:jane stalin wrote:Heimdallr69 wrote:http://imgur.com/eaS2UnC So I decidd to see what people meant by matchmaking being bad.. . as others have said, the example you give is not nearly as bad as the worst stomps I have seen there's usually at least one enemy squad so I usually have good fights I didn't realize newbros got into this kind of matchmaking. I personally want it fixed and I think it's something CCP will need to fix if they wish to grow. Heim... You are probably one of the oldest players still around playing on this game. We have had a series of amazing You-tubers and gamers from other games come and give DUST a try. And LOVED the game until they are thrown into general population extremely quick. The best Video to describe what happens to a new player in DUST was done by a Girl gamer who mainly played WoW and decided to try out a FPS game. This is what has happened to DUST's population and why we can't retain new players. CCP Has known this.Give it a watch and listen to the commentary... This has happened Thousands and thousands of times to the point where we are at now. She could be my woman =ƒÿÜ We need something for this problem high/low sec might help or actual matchmaking
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Union118
MONSTER SYNERGY
339
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Posted - 2015.01.16 05:17:00 -
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Shinobi MumyoSakanagare ZaShigurui wrote:Union118 wrote:Heimdallr69 wrote:http://imgur.com/eaS2UnC So I decidd to see what people meant by matchmaking being bad.. Lmfao no wonder new players don't stay, it'd be one thing if they were solo but a squad seriously? Is this what you consider balanced? I understand why we don't keep new players and I don't blame them for leaving. Here this should help a squad can only join battles when another squad is on the other side. Dust will never grow because it is illegal to grow cannabis on dust. Even if you were to have your own grow op they would come in and destroy everything. Your clones, your equipment, and they would smoke most of your finished product. They have billions of isk worth of product that has been confiscated from other busts stashed in a bunker guarded by proto stompers 24/7. Good luck tring to get it back. That's why you have to have a grow stash . It's helpful , I wish I could YouTube a vid and show you . Without getting raided that is . Get a labtop sign on at a cafe download it to YouTube and post it on here and make an alies on dust.
Starter Fit Suits are OP :-)
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Avinash Decker
Seykal Expeditionary Group Minmatar Republic
164
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Posted - 2015.01.16 05:18:00 -
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Matchmaking and NPE issue has around since the game came out; the CCP employees most likely know it is an issue, but it has been months at an attempt to fix it; it didn't work. I think they can't do much with it now and they know that. The game will slowly lose more players because of it and because of other myriad of problems. If the bad new NPE and matchmaking wasn't the culprit it would be the bad performance, balance issues, bad shooting mechanics, lack of game modes, etc. |
Joel II X
Bacon with a bottle of Quafe
5519
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Posted - 2015.01.16 05:20:00 -
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Bethhy wrote:Heimdallr69 wrote:jane stalin wrote:Heimdallr69 wrote:http://imgur.com/eaS2UnC So I decidd to see what people meant by matchmaking being bad.. . as others have said, the example you give is not nearly as bad as the worst stomps I have seen there's usually at least one enemy squad so I usually have good fights I didn't realize newbros got into this kind of matchmaking. I personally want it fixed and I think it's something CCP will need to fix if they wish to grow. Heim... You are probably one of the oldest players still around playing on this game. We have had a series of amazing You-tubers and gamers from other games come and give DUST a try. And LOVED the game until they are thrown into general population extremely quick. The best Video to describe what happens to a new player in DUST was done by a Girl gamer who mainly played WoW and decided to try out a FPS game. This is what has happened to DUST's population and why we can't retain new players. CCP Has known this.Give it a watch and listen to the commentary... This has happened Thousands and thousands of times to the point where we are at now. That has got to be the 5th video that I've seen with the same discussion. Feels bad, man.
That said, it's video from 2013. Back with excellent ScP's. Those were the days... |
deezy dabest
IMPERIAL SPECIAL FORCES GROUP
1783
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Posted - 2015.01.16 16:11:00 -
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Ripley Riley wrote:Matchmaking isn't working as intended because of a small playerbase. The playerbase is small because of poor matchmaking. I think matchmaking is a problem, but it is just one piece of the problem. Having a proper NPE would also help new players stick around.
No this is the excuse for the old system which as much as I hate to say it actually seemed to work compared to this.
This new MU matchmaking system was a valiant attempt but it was just poorly thought out. Myself and a few others that saw the flaws in using W/L and K/D to balance matches tried to point them out but it went unheard.
The game is absolutely unplayable solo. For now the queue just needs to be split into solo and not solo and we give up on filling 16 people every time. Just take the squads that are searching and put them against each other even if it just ends up 11 versus 12. |
Moorian Flav
296
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Posted - 2015.01.16 16:30:00 -
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Matchmaking is not the only problem. I was in a FW where my team was stacked with notable character names from current PC corps where I figured this would be an easy win. We had 3 out of 4 points 5 minutes in but then my team seemingly decided the battle wasn't worth it any more for some reason and decided to hang back in the MCC. My team quickly became 4 capped for the rest of the match and lost. Even if matchmatching was somehow improved, there would still be this problem where matchmaking would likely take the blame.
BTW, if you are consistently going into a matches where your team has something like 4 players in a squad and 12 solo players and you're one of those solo players, try making or joining a squad. You might see matchmaking is not such a problem.
I don't troll; I tell the truth.
I'm also known as "The ANTI-Propaganda Machine".
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One Eyed King
Land of the BIind
7212
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Posted - 2015.01.16 16:35:00 -
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Avinash Decker wrote:Matchmaking and NPE issue has around since the game came out; the CCP employees most likely know it is an issue, but it has been months at an attempt to fix it; it didn't work. I think they can't do much with it now and they know that. The game will slowly lose more players because of it and because of other myriad of problems. If the bad new NPE and matchmaking wasn't the culprit it would be the bad performance, balance issues, bad shooting mechanics, lack of game modes, etc. I didn't have as many problems with the previous system.
The imbalanced games back then were no worse, and I had many more games that were close, competative, or at least fun.
I don't even think it has to do with just keeping new players around, as it keeps me from playing more often than I would like too.
Thunderbolt. verb and noun.
"James thunderbolted in his pants."
"I lit a bag of thunderbolt on fire on CCP's doorway"
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Kira Lannister
Ancient Exiles.
2503
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Posted - 2015.01.16 16:37:00 -
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A wild imp appeared.
"The Ancient Templars will guard fearlessly the people, the land and the heavens of the empire."
Book of Exiles 1:3
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Jathniel
G I A N T
1429
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Posted - 2015.01.16 17:01:00 -
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Bethhy wrote:Heimdallr69 wrote:jane stalin wrote:Heimdallr69 wrote:http://imgur.com/eaS2UnC So I decidd to see what people meant by matchmaking being bad.. . as others have said, the example you give is not nearly as bad as the worst stomps I have seen there's usually at least one enemy squad so I usually have good fights I didn't realize newbros got into this kind of matchmaking. I personally want it fixed and I think it's something CCP will need to fix if they wish to grow. Heim... You are probably one of the oldest players still around playing on this game. We have had a series of amazing You-tubers and gamers from other games come and give DUST a try. And LOVED the game until they are thrown into general population extremely quick. The best Video to describe what happens to a new player in DUST was done by a Girl gamer who mainly played WoW and decided to try out a FPS game. This is what has happened to DUST's population and why we can't retain new players. CCP Has known this.Give it a watch and listen to the commentary... This has happened Thousands and thousands of times to the point where we are at now.
Oh man, that video made me cry...
What SHE did wrong: Everything. Every single movement she did, made NO sense to me. In time, she eventually got some decent positioning to shoot at targets, but she didn't have the dexterity to properly track them and do enough DPS to kill them. Half the time, a target was strafing, so she couldn't land good shots in ADS (moments like that i wish she would have just hip-fired). She clearly paid no attention to her tools (radar, magazine indicator, shield and armor status), and found herself in a bad spot repeatedly. She has some insight, when it comes to visual situational awareness, but she does not know how to use the tools provided to her. Her aim is subpar, and the only way she can adjust for that is to either practice, or engage at close-range, using hip fire.
This is the kind of noob I feel awful killing. You WILL stomp people like this entirely by accident. Proto or not.
What the GAME did wrong: Take her out of the Academy and put her in a match against protostompers. This player was not ready for *anything*.
Proper visual and audio cues while in combat, telling newbros that their shields are down, or that their armor is critically damaged. Even an audio cue saying, "Contact. 3 o'clock", when hostiles are detected on radar nearby. Or another audio cue telling you a grenade is nearby. She didn't get any of that. Nothing. She started a match saying, "I don't know what's going on. What am I supposed to do? Where are the objectives (for an Ambush match....)?"
And for ****'s sake, give the poor girl a scope! There is NO need for assault variants to be scope-less! Just maybe if she had a dot sight, or SOMETHING, she would have a better idea of how small the projectile reference truly is!
If we increase the rewards of FW, to make it something truly worth doing, it may pull most regulars out of Public Matches. But FW, has to become a way of life, and it needs to be faster. People do Public Matches, because they are in and out, fast. We need to somehow get Faction Warfare to operate with similar speed.
Retired
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Dragonmeballs
Better Hide R Die
71
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Posted - 2015.01.16 17:04:00 -
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Heimdallr69 wrote:http://imgur.com/eaS2UnC So I decidd to see what people meant by matchmaking being bad.. Lmfao no wonder new players don't stay, it'd be one thing if they were solo but a squad seriously? Is this what you consider balanced? I understand why we don't keep new players and I don't blame them for leaving. Here this should help a squad can only join battles when another squad is on the other side.
OP you highlight a real issue but your example is nowhere near as bad as it gets some nights.
I was in an ambush last week where our team scored a total of 400 wp. I had 350 of it and second place had 50. Most of my points were the result of running for the hills and dropping uplinks in the hope our team could regroup on higher ground. It didn't work. The other team bunny hopped and strafed their way up the hill and ate our collective lunches loosing 3 clones in the process.
There was a substantial quantity of standard and frontline suits when I panned around and judging from they way they acted most were noobs. (Granted some of those might have been vets who just didn't see the point of losing any more isk.)
Is this the game working as it is designed. Absolutely.
Is this game designed to maintain a steady number of players evolving like those of us from the Betas? No F@$king way!
There will always be those that, if they can, will try every night to kick the dicks off of the other team because they can.
There will always be those who take advantage of small or even large glitch like advantages.
There will always be those with 5X, 10X more SP and the advantages that come with it.
But to all those with 40M+ SP I point out that we never had to experience the disparity between noob and vet in the Betas that exist for new players today.
Some would point out that things are the way the way they because it emulates the harsh reality of the EVE universe. Okay. I'll grant you that but point out that Dust is only connected to the EVE universe via lore and environment. We don't actually have any effect on what happens in that universe. It is all made up and the points don't matter.
So why not make the necessary changes to maintain and build a sustainable player base?
Blueberry!....Make yourself useful and shoot the blurry thing running this way!
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Thumb Green
Raymond James Corp
2011
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Posted - 2015.01.16 17:29:00 -
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Dragonmeballs wrote:
But to all those with 40M+ SP I point out that we never had to experience the disparity between noob and vet in the Betas that exist for new players today.
Some would point out that things are the way the way they because it emulates the harsh reality of the EVE universe. Okay. I'll grant you that but point out that Dust is only connected to the EVE universe via lore and environment. We don't actually have any effect on what happens in that universe. It is all made up and the points don't matter.
So why not make the necessary changes to maintain and build a sustainable player base?
Don't grant them anything. Even EVE has a relatively safe zone for new players; hell, I spent my entire extended free trail (almost a month) without running into a single hostile player.
[RYJC]
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KING CHECKMATE
Opus Arcana Covert Intervention
7062
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Posted - 2015.01.16 17:29:00 -
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gustavo acosta wrote:Scotty knew it was your alt. so he figured you'd carry the team.
Thing that he thinks i can do but i cant.
Playing as : Calscout + Amarr Assault
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Vapor Forseti
Internal Error. Negative-Feedback
1772
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Posted - 2015.01.16 17:37:00 -
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Heimdallr69 wrote:Bethhy wrote: The best Video to describe what happens to a new player in DUST was done by a Girl gamer who mainly played WoW and decided to try out a FPS game.
She could be my woman =ƒÿÜ *runs outside screaming*
Malfunctioning IGR alt
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Timtron Victory
Horizons' Edge
264
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Posted - 2015.01.16 17:45:00 -
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The solution is pretty simple, ban anything that is above standard from pubs until meta locking or tiers is applied
Dust Weekly Lottery
Proud Christian
Jesus Loves You
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Heimdallr69
Imperfects Negative-Feedback
4370
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Posted - 2015.01.16 17:50:00 -
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Vapor Forseti wrote:Heimdallr69 wrote:Bethhy wrote: The best Video to describe what happens to a new player in DUST was done by a Girl gamer who mainly played WoW and decided to try out a FPS game.
She could be my woman =ƒÿÜ *runs outside screaming* Lol... You can always come over =ƒÿÿ
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Heimdallr69
Imperfects Negative-Feedback
4370
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Posted - 2015.01.16 17:56:00 -
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Timtron Victory wrote:The solution is pretty simple, ban anything that is above standard from pubs until meta locking or tiers is applied Yeah but the sp gap means the players will still have an advantage with core upgrades
Also with Beth's vid she clearly stated she had no idea what she is doing and doesn't understand how to play.. Some of us learned from being here a long time and others came naturally cuz this is our forte.. I do not think she is bad but just didn't understand anything. Something I have been doing lately is making solo squads and allowing blues in it so I can help I know it's too late now and won't help much but I still do it.
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Dragonmeballs
Better Hide R Die
73
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Posted - 2015.01.16 18:01:00 -
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Heimdallr69 wrote:Timtron Victory wrote:The solution is pretty simple, ban anything that is above standard from pubs until meta locking or tiers is applied Yeah but the sp gap means the players will still have an advantage with core upgrades Also with Beth's vid she clearly stated she had no idea what she is doing and doesn't understand how to play.. Some of us learned from being here a long time and others came naturally cuz this is our forte.. I do not think she is bad but just didn't understand anything. Something I have been doing lately is making solo squads and allowing blues in it so I can help I know it's too late now and won't help much but I still do it.
Much respect for still trying to help.
Something none of the habitual stompers even give thought to....
Blueberry!....Make yourself useful and shoot the blurry thing running this way!
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Dragonmeballs
Better Hide R Die
73
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Posted - 2015.01.16 18:04:00 -
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Thumb Green wrote:Dragonmeballs wrote:
But to all those with 40M+ SP I point out that we never had to experience the disparity between noob and vet in the Betas that exist for new players today.
Some would point out that things are the way the way they because it emulates the harsh reality of the EVE universe. Okay. I'll grant you that but point out that Dust is only connected to the EVE universe via lore and environment. We don't actually have any effect on what happens in that universe. It is all made up and the points don't matter.
So why not make the necessary changes to maintain and build a sustainable player base?
Don't grant them anything. Even EVE has a relatively safe zone for new players; hell, I spent my entire extended free trail (almost a month) without running into a single hostile player.
But is a month enough time in this game....If you don't score wp you don't get sp. We have the advantages of time, failure and SP to keep our losses in check.
Blueberry!....Make yourself useful and shoot the blurry thing running this way!
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Thumb Green
Raymond James Corp
2012
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Posted - 2015.01.16 18:36:00 -
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Dragonmeballs wrote:Thumb Green wrote:Dragonmeballs wrote:
But to all those with 40M+ SP I point out that we never had to experience the disparity between noob and vet in the Betas that exist for new players today.
Some would point out that things are the way the way they because it emulates the harsh reality of the EVE universe. Okay. I'll grant you that but point out that Dust is only connected to the EVE universe via lore and environment. We don't actually have any effect on what happens in that universe. It is all made up and the points don't matter.
So why not make the necessary changes to maintain and build a sustainable player base?
Don't grant them anything. Even EVE has a relatively safe zone for new players; hell, I spent my entire extended free trail (almost a month) without running into a single hostile player. But is a month enough time in this game....If you don't score wp you don't get sp. We have the advantages of time, failure and SP to keep our losses in check. No it isn't, though my point was that EVE isn't as harsh as people like to make it out to be. Hell, I even had one of the GM's contact me in game to make sure I was having fun and if I needed any help figuring stuff out. From my experience lowsec was a very nice place and a player could probably spend years in it while only being attacked a handful of times and only by people willing to suicide in cheap ships since Concord will destroy the attacker.
In this game however, I don't think a player should be put against us vets until they have at least 12mil SP. I think the academy should be extended to that point and then broken up into tiers so that they all fight other players within a certain range of SP. For example, tier one would be under 2 or 3 mil and tier two would be 2-3 mil to 5-6 and what not. This will allow them to have fun while building up just enough SP to be competitive, if it's spent wisely which brings us to the fact that they need to add a tutorial on the skill tree about spending SP.
[RYJC]
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Onesimus Tarsus
is-a-Corporation
2867
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Posted - 2015.01.16 18:38:00 -
[42] - Quote
K/D(r) matchmaking fixes this.
Man, that felt good to say.
This is a prototype-level sig. I worked hard for it, and I'm going to use it every time. So, just get used to it.
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Cyzad4
Blackfish Corp.
580
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Posted - 2015.01.16 19:04:00 -
[43] - Quote
Thumb Green wrote:Ripley Riley wrote:Matchmaking isn't working as intended because of a small playerbase. The playerbase is small because of poor matchmaking. It's a "damned if you do and damned if you don't" type of situation so CCP really just needs to bite the bullet and separate the playerbase, however small it may be, so the playerbase can grow. It's like with gardening, if you want your garden to flourish you have to separate the weeds from your plants; otherwise they'll choke the life out of your garden. Us vets are choking the life out of this game, we are the weeds in the proverbial Garden of New Eden. TBH at this point I think it's just a "damned if you dont." The playerbase is small yes and dividing it up further would generally be a bad move, However if the newbros have nowhere to learn we won't have any. It's that simple. As long as CCP keeps in mind the high risk = high reward, I don't think it'll be nearly as catastrophic as some people are making it out to be. IDK about you guys but I have zero interest in running around stomping newberries in MLT matches for imaginary epeen waggling rights and half my normal pay. Will there be people stomping in those matches? Absolutely, there will always be sad empty shell like humans who will try to game the system and take the easy road but that will happen regardless.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
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GLOBAL fils'de RAGE
Consolidated Dust
139
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Posted - 2015.01.16 19:21:00 -
[44] - Quote
Heimdallr69 wrote:http://imgur.com/eaS2UnC So I decidd to see what people meant by matchmaking being bad.. Lmfao no wonder new players don't stay, it'd be one thing if they were solo but a squad seriously? Is this what you consider balanced? I understand why we don't keep new players and I don't blame them for leaving. Here this should help a squad can only join battles when another squad is on the other side.
CCP is moving it's servers into Amazon's AWS cloud, we can hope that matchmaking via on demand server hosting will be utilised and well thought out.
Stomping is an effect of high latency players, and not SP. DUST's population of high KDR players when compared to other FPS games are not shown to be great, but average players.
High latency players take reduced damage and have good offensive hit detection. There are corporation that are groupings of these players and thus stomping.
How many times have you engaged an unslayable lagger to only have his squad mate take you out?
How many overheats, jams, reload kills have you suffered, because it took way too much effort on a lagger.
How many times have you and 1 or 2 squad members been needed to kill a lagger and end of game that was the only one for that player?
How many full clips in the back of a player, and they insta kill you while you're reloading?
How many BAD games do you have to play in order to play in a balanced one?
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Ripley Riley
Incorruptibles
6714
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Posted - 2015.01.16 19:22:00 -
[45] - Quote
Thumb Green wrote:It's a "damned if you do and damned if you don't" type of situation so CCP really just needs to bite the bullet and separate the playerbase, however small it may be, so the playerbase can grow. It's like with gardening, if you want your garden to flourish you have to separate the weeds from your plants; otherwise they'll choke the life out of your garden. Us vets are choking the life out of this game, we are the weeds in the proverbial Garden of New Eden. I'm not sure I completely agree with you on this. I know that vet players are hurting NPE by... well let's call it for what it is: being good at DUST 514. If we separate the playerbase then we are looking at longer queues, and long queues are not at all good for a lobby shooter.
This will never happen, but we need PvE. That would train new players and give them a chance to take a short break from getting stomped every so often. It would make this game infinitely more fun and increase replayability one-hundred fold.
Just call me Ripple. Ripple Riley.
@Ripley_Riley
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axis alpha
Namtar Elite Gallente Federation
478
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Posted - 2015.01.16 19:29:00 -
[46] - Quote
These kind of matches happen to me alllll the time and most of the time worse than this. I run solo and I'm sure scotty puts me on the newberry side because of how much sp I have or however it sees as I am a vet and expects me to carry them and 90% percent of the time I do try my best but then you just hit a point and just give up and sit in the mcc. But believe me its a lot worse than this most times.
I cut you up so bad.... You gonna wish I no cut you up so bad.
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Thumb Green
Raymond James Corp
2013
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Posted - 2015.01.16 19:30:00 -
[47] - Quote
PvE would be a nice way to separate the playerbase
[RYJC]
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Onesimus Tarsus
is-a-Corporation
2867
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Posted - 2015.01.16 20:37:00 -
[48] - Quote
I think OP is unaware of the 12-15 new mercs added to this game almost every minute, and the over 83,000,000 mercs total created for this game so far.
Why the 2300-2500 that you see on a regular basis are only a microscopic (literally) portion of the players who have been created!
This is a prototype-level sig. I worked hard for it, and I'm going to use it every time. So, just get used to it.
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Bethhy
Ancient Exiles.
3136
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Posted - 2015.01.17 00:31:00 -
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Onesimus Tarsus wrote:I think OP is unaware of the 12-15 new mercs added to this game almost every minute, and the over 83,000,000 mercs total created for this game so far.
Why the 2300-2500 that you see on a regular basis are only a microscopic (literally) portion of the players who have been created!
I think you are un aware of the amount of new characters created to have the 250k ISK transferred off and then deleted..
There is EVENews24 Articles and Chribba math behind it...
The amount of ISK created in DUST from players creating characters and transferring the ISK off then deleting them on 5-20 PSN accounts a day. Is MORE then the isk generated from all of Planetary Conquest.
Eve had this exact same problem to the point where the task was completely automated by program macros.
CCP Removed this in EVE and put limitations, Then made the same mistake in DUST 514 a few years later without setting up any safeguards at all?
This doesn't seem fishy to you at all? Specially seeing how CCP Shanghai has been made aware of this problem for 2 years... To the point where Gaming sites, Evenews24 and Chribba have all posted and or made long researched articles about?
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Bright Cloud
Namtar Elite Gallente Federation
778
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Posted - 2015.01.17 00:35:00 -
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Heimdallr69 wrote:http://imgur.com/eaS2UnC So I decidd to see what people meant by matchmaking being bad.. Lmfao no wonder new players don't stay, it'd be one thing if they were solo but a squad seriously? Is this what you consider balanced? I understand why we don't keep new players and I don't blame them for leaving. Here this should help a squad can only join battles when another squad is on the other side. Dust, Dust never changes....
Bright is the opposite of dark! Who would have thought of that?!
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Heimdallr69
Imperfects Negative-Feedback
4372
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Posted - 2015.01.17 00:40:00 -
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Bethhy wrote:Onesimus Tarsus wrote:I think OP is unaware of the 12-15 new mercs added to this game almost every minute, and the over 83,000,000 mercs total created for this game so far.
Why the 2300-2500 that you see on a regular basis are only a microscopic (literally) portion of the players who have been created! I think you are un aware of the amount of new characters created to have the 250k ISK transferred off and then deleted.. There is EVENews24 Articles and Chribba math behind it... The amount of ISK created in DUST from players creating characters and transferring the ISK off then deleting them on 5-20 PSN accounts a day. Is MORE then the isk generated from all of Planetary Conquest. Eve had this exact same problem to the point where the task was completely automated by program macros. CCP Removed this in EVE and put limitations, Then made the same mistake in DUST 514 a few years later without setting up any safeguards at all? This doesn't seem fishy to you at all? Specially seeing how CCP Shanghai has been made aware of this problem for 2 years... To the point where Gaming sites, Evenews24 and Chribba have all posted and or made long researched articles about? CCP Is padding their numbers, everyone knows this. You still play?
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