You bring up a good point. It would be nice to be able to mute specific people instead of having to mute everyone.

This^^^

ThorOdinson42 is right about the payout system. Far too low, and I don't understand why? If I've put 200k into a battle the payout is the same as if I've put 1 mil in. Kill 25 get 200k. Kill 5 get 200k. I don't get it? Now they say vets get even lower payouts if we don't go balls to the wall, but if we do the payouts are still low? Wait a minute?!

The matchmaker needs to stop being referred to because it clearly is a notional idea. There's no way CCP can come here and say "there is a working matchmaker" with a straight face. 99% of all matches are one sided as ever. I've been on teams where the enemy team only had one true blue that wasn't in squad, and our team had our 4 man squad fighting tooth and nail for no reason. The other 12 were sniping, afk, or redline tanking.

However, we can blame alot of things, but it comes down to integrity. Some of these players i dont even want on my team. They won't push a swing set let alone a point! They have no intention of helping anyone. They still play this game like they playing C.O.D., and to them it's all about the leaderboards. They will see you engaging a target, but will not fire on him because they may not get the kill. I've watched this bs happen. They fight like they hate their team mates more than the enemy.

The fundamentals of team play have been washed away by the solo merc mentality. Low isk payout, bad matchmaking, and incompetency doesn't help. Some of these players make me wonder if they're this backwards in real life. I've even attempted to use the ever so useless team chat. Screamed in it, typed in it, but all for nothing. I just wanna know why they don't carry equipment? No links, no ammo, no scanners, but that rep tool gets major play lol! Then people complain about tankers with equipment?! You wouldn't have any links in some matches if i didn't jump out, kill a guy, drop a link, and fight the tank off you!

What I don't understand is guys like Thor are almost never on my team even "accidentally". You mean to tell me the matchmaker can put me against 6 Nyain san or a full q sync of two PC team squads 12 deep, but I can't get another competent player unless I bring em? I've been in matches that were utter landslides, but this matchmaker never puts me on teams with FA, third rock, or other strong players? It seems I'm doomed to carry academy graduates into quitting the game?!

The phrase "team carry" has become a household phrase. Need a back brace when carrying the team I've been doing it so long. I've even wrote to Saxonmish on one of his vids saying that one day the matchmaker will bless us to be on the same team so he has some F*CKING help when he loses a dom after going 55/7 while his entire team goes f*cking negative, and loses the match?!

If he's fresh out of the academy he's basically cannon fodder while we get crushed for not having team mates.

The reason why you guys are never put on strong teams is SIMPLE.

Anyone decent knows they must squad up to succeed.

So (Insert Corp Here) forms a squad and heads in. Well, our Mu is crazy right now. So we normally get a lot of newberries.

This means that if you are in the same que as us, anyone DECENT will be put on the other side. And most are solo players.

6 Strong Players together will always stomp a team of 8 or so decent players who don't link up.

The solution to this? SQUAD UP.

The reason why you guys are never put on strong teams is SIMPLE.

Anyone decent knows they must squad up to succeed.

So (Insert Corp Here) forms a squad and heads in. Well, our Mu is crazy right now. So we normally get a lot of newberries.

This means that if you are in the same que as us, anyone DECENT will be put on the other side. And most are solo players.

6 Strong Players together will always stomp a team of 8 or so decent players who don't link up.

The solution to this? SQUAD UP.

I'm beyond fed up.

I'll never understand why droves of people turn on the game, enter matches, but refuse to play.

You kidding? I love 4-5 matches in a row, looking around and wondering where in Gods name all the blueberries are.

Look on the over head map... And they are no where to be seen ;~;

Actually had one match, had to call in a dropship and scrape SEVEN blueberries, all sniping, off atower to get them in the game o:< .... It was like using a butter knife to scrape off excess from toast :3

Remove KD and people will stop that.

I don't want to derail this thread, so no need to reply to this post, but I once had a squeaker tell me that he was going to sexually assault me with a McDonald's hamburger.

I could not stop laughing for the rest of the match. It was very distracting.

I had a match when I went in with a squad of three. we had 13 friendly snipers. I believe this is K/d related people are scared to be judged by a lack of performance in this stat.

KDR matchmaking removes KDR. Straight up.

People still talking about proto stompers lmao I bet you play street fighter and say no throwing hadoukens

"STREET FIGHTER WOULD STILL BE FUN IF THE OTHER PLAYER HAD 3X MY HEALTH AND ALL HIS ATTACKS DID 20-30% MORE DAMAGE XD"

I love how people still insist that running proto gear isnt a huge advantage. It lets me know who the disingenuous assholes or thoughtless morons are without even talking with them at all.

It's not the proto though. It wouldn't matter if the good players were in STD. They are squaded up and working together vs a bunch of solo players. Some of these guys that whine about proto were doing it a year ago. Did CCP pause their SP accumulation? They should have proto by now as well as the passive skills to compete.

You see it in the kill feed, there are plenty of people that have obviously dropped money on boosters and other AUR stuff.

1. For years it's been more profitable to play passive instead of pushing for a win.
2. Corporate taxes have led many people to forgo corporations for playing passively in pubs.
3. Scout meta for the longest time allowed for people to have great success without needing a squad.
4. People playing passively while others have developed and honed their skills to become better.

There are a lot of factors that have led to this solo/passive play that plagues pub matches. Blaming proto is the easy way out.

If the PC proto squads were facing squads of players in ADV gear or better matches would be vastly more balanced than they are now.

KDR matchmaking removes KDR. Straight up.

worst idea ever
EVER

edit: Reasons; The playerbase is to small, and the hilarious matches people would be placed in.

Full sniper matches where 10+ people are redline snipers
Another version of battle academy where everyone's KD is below .3
A game where the KD of everyone is 1, fun fits everywhere
A last game where people's KD is 10 and nobody will be the first to push the point in fear of dying

It's not the proto though. It wouldn't matter if the good players were in STD. They are squaded up and working together vs a bunch of solo players. Some of these guys that whine about proto were doing it a year ago. Did CCP pause their SP accumulation? They should have proto by now as well as the passive skills to compete.

You see it in the kill feed, there are plenty of people that have obviously dropped money on boosters and other AUR stuff.

1. For years it's been more profitable to play passive instead of pushing for a win.
2. Corporate taxes have led many people to forgo corporations for playing passively in pubs.
3. Scout meta for the longest time allowed for people to have great success without needing a squad.
4. People playing passively while others have developed and honed their skills to become better.

There are a lot of factors that have led to this solo/passive play that plagues pub matches. Blaming proto is the easy way out.

If the PC proto squads were facing squads of players in ADV gear or better matches would be vastly more balanced than they are now.

I'm new, but I fight, or more acurately, I'm an active bullet-sponge.

Because noone wants to get stomped. Its all the proto stompers fault. They have no gun game, they all trash players, they all have no respect.

I understand where you are coming from.

Proto is better and proto squads working together can be devastating. My point is that you can't expect a bunch of randoms to compete with that running solo. They can't compete with any group that's working together in a skirmish setting.

I want to see development that encourages squad play. That gives incentive for players to join corps, squad up, and work together to become the hunters instead of the hunted. It shouldn't solely be on the individual player to seek out those opportunities. Some people don't even know that's what they want because it hasn't been presented to them.