Update on the mini-match making update. I am unimpressed.

My day consisted of a single match of 7 vs 14, which devolved to 4v14 then 3v13 and of course then it only me versus the pond scum you threw at me. A full squad dropping Maddy v.0 and ADS while tossing their meager, lone warbarge gas bag fluff and missing not only me but my droplink.

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Off to Dark Souls, where death has more meaning. KR

Many of the games that I have gotten into take extremely long, often in excess of 5 minutes to usually get scottied shortly there after. I have also been scottied repeatedly while in squad while trying to find a match, then will get put into a battle pulled out and put back in often with half the people in my squad DC'ing. Many times people back out of battles for a few reasons, i suspect.

Being put in matches that have already started. I have seen this over and over since the matchmaking has started. When a really good team is going against another really good team and one of them already has a majority of the objectives, people tend to back out because the other team has a tactical advantage. ***POSSIBLE SOLUTION*** HAVE THE WARBARGES ON BOTH SIDES FILL UP WHILE MERCS WAIT IN THE WARBAGE. #bringbackthewarbarge (would be great if the map layout could be seen before the battle starts as well so that teams could organize attacks) i'd propose that once the teams are filled that there is a one minute countdown until boots on the ground. If your metrics, Ratatti, are correct then once the game is full with a well matched 16v16 then, and only then should there be a penalty for backing out. Then problems I suspect that you will run into with this is people disconnecting from the game, fatal errors, or just not connecting in general. THAT cannot be punished and is a part of the game that is so common that I think that you will find it hard to punish people for. I for one would be quite angry if i was punished for disconnecting...

Overall it seems better to me. People just need a bigger carrot to keep pushing for the win. No telling how much easier this matchmaking dream would come true for you guys if people were playing like they are properly motivated.

I am getting scottied and getting pulled into battles that I am not trying to get into play the game from 15 seconds - 5 minutes and getting pulled out of match. I am losing suits and getting little pay in wallet for these matches that a botched. This is a huge disappointment and is making people not want to play the game and turing the game off. Would be great if new mechanics were tested before they were released...

... and getting pulled into battles that I haven't queued up for. ...

Not sure what you mean by this, is it like you joined Ambush when you only select only Domination? the ping? or your team always lose?

O k so the situation is as follows. I will be in a squad of 6, often with many of us having high SP. We will be queued by the squad leader into, for, example Skirmisk and Ambush. If we don't get into a match, we will have been waiting about 6 minutes before being scottied for the first time. We will then try to queue up the search again (there are a few things that happen here and where I am having huge problems with the game and the main crux of what I am complaining about).

We will get scottied repeatedly. Often with the time, for the brief second that it is up reading "Estimated time to deployment 00:57" before scottied the entire squad. This will repeat over and over again. We will switch squad leaders, we will wait, and then, with the squad be queuing for a game that none of the squad leaders queuing for, in the case that I am describing, we would be pulled into a Domination match. The squad will be pulled into the battle and anywhere from 5 seconds into the match until almost 5 minutes where my squad and I will be removed from the game and then we will be pulled back into the merc quarters. When this happens my team will be repeatedly pulled in a pulled out of battle. We have tried switching squad leaders, resetting our systems, switching servers, even singing guitar songs to Scotty but it is all for naught because in all these circumstances, even when we all reset our systems, and log back in and get to the merc quarters, we will continue to be pulled into battles that we ultimately get removed from, losing suits, vehicles, and weapons that we were using at the time. I have been doing a lot of faction warfare to avoid this where the competition is non existent, not rewarding in regards to ISK, and generally not as fun as the public matches I have played before.

To be fair, when all 16 players on both side start at the same time and fight it out, they are very good games. It's just a shame that I can only say that about a 5 games that I have played since April 1st. I am playing more PC and FW than pubs these days and it is reflecting in the relative emptiness of my merc's wallet...

this game for what it is: a tactical wargame that requires dicipline, situational awareness, some skill, and a thrist to win a ****ing game that a lone Ramboesqe mercenary cannot win. Now I'm being told to play solo?!?! Is this guy serious?

No. **** that. I personally take offense to that coming from a dev. I was going to cut into you AquarHead, but I erased all of scathing remarks... I have always played this game having a full squad for a myriad of reasons. Would you like me to list some? 1) A well organized squad can single handedly win a skirmish. No question. If you say I'm wrong, your squading with unorganized one or your squad in just terrible 2) Squading with people is a lot of fun. It creates comradeship in your team. 3) Team work is extremely effective in battle 4) this game DC'd people so much that I want to have some people with me in the event that 1 or 2 players gets DC'd, ect. The list goes on, there are no disadvantages to running a squad.

I feel that a bunch of the really crappy players that have no corp, no friends, no tactics complain to you devs endlessly that they are facing proto all the time or using some other BS excuse for why they suck and you nerffed matchmaking for these people that don't know how to play, use the same scrub tactics over and over, get countered, a whine and cry when they repeatedly get killed, and can't see this game for what it is: a tactical wargame that requires dicipline, situational awareness, some skill, and a thrist to win a ****ing game that a lone Ramboesqe mercenary cannot win. Now I'm being told to play solo?!?! Is this guy serious?

O k so the situation is as follows. I will be in a squad of 6, often with many of us having high SP. We will be queued by the squad leader into, for, example Skirmisk and Ambush. If we don't get into a match, we will have been waiting about 6 minutes before being scottied for the first time. We will then try to queue up the search again (there are a few things that happen here and where I am having huge problems with the game and the main crux of what I am complaining about).

We will get scottied repeatedly. Often with the time, for the brief second that it is up reading "Estimated time to deployment 00:57" before scottied the entire squad. This will repeat over and over again. We will switch squad leaders, we will wait, and then, with the squad be queuing for a game that none of the squad leaders queuing for, in the case that I am describing, we would be pulled into a Domination match. The squad will be pulled into the battle and anywhere from 5 seconds into the match until almost 5 minutes where my squad and I will be removed from the game and then we will be pulled back into the merc quarters. When this happens my team will be repeatedly pulled in a pulled out of battle. We have tried switching squad leaders, resetting our systems, switching servers, even singing guitar songs to Scotty but it is all for naught because in all these circumstances, even when we all reset our systems, and log back in and get to the merc quarters, we will continue to be pulled into battles that we ultimately get removed from, losing suits, vehicles, and weapons that we were using at the time. I have been doing a lot of faction warfare to avoid this where the competition is non existent, not rewarding in regards to ISK, and generally not as fun as the public matches I have played before.

To be fair, when all 16 players on both side start at the same time and fight it out, they are very good games. It's just a shame that I can only say that about a 5 games that I have played since April 1st. I am playing more PC and FW than pubs these days and it is reflecting in the relative emptiness of my merc's wallet...