Mostly good matchmaking today, we lost a few, we won a few... I saw very few enemy tanks (kinda disappointing.)


There was one instance of 8 v 16... That was a boring match.

This sounds good but punishing people who are getting stomped sounds a little rough. I like to go rewarding those that stick out losing fights better. Why not make each kill add 5 WP until the next death. Then killing that super merc is a big pay day. Also, make capping a point work similarly but with time. If it hasn't been capped for 10 minutes, when you cap it, WP from the sky.

On a related "stomp mentality" that I find absolutely pathetic.

Story time:

I was playing as a new character this morning, to try out the lower Mu bracket.

After a while, I start seeing familiar names on the killscreen, going maybe 20/5, which is basically an exit criteria on its own.

I got curious, and looked up the top ranking players on both sides for my matches.

They were ALL alts of veteran players, freshly created today!

Not only that, but I could see all of their second alts, were scheduled for removal.

So tomorrow, they will have a fresh alt, and schedule today's alt for removal.

I am competitive, but what drives players to do this, slaughter players that are in many cases patently helpless?

The Academy is for new players to get their bearings, relatively risk free. Learn the maps, drop an uplink, spawn on uplink, try out the starter fits, scan, and hack.

Whatever, just writing this makes me furious. Just thought I would share that some will go to incredible lengths to grief, or pad their self esteem.

I like to go rewarding those that stick out losing fights better ... killing that super merc is a big pay day.

yup, exactly

So you are saying Some full squads want to Fight on easy mode?
Or they are afraid of losing their Win Loss %.
Need that new leader board stat Left Battle Early

Like this idea.

The Cowardly Cowards Leaderboard.

I wonder if you are able to pull the names of those people and send them a survey on why they are doing that.

Just curious how many would respond and what lie they would give for it

yup, exactly

On a related "stomp mentality" that I find absolutely pathetic.

Story time:

I was playing as a new character this morning, to try out the lower Mu bracket.

After a while, I start seeing familiar names on the killscreen, going maybe 20/5, which is basically an exit criteria on its own.

I got curious, and looked up the top ranking players on both sides for my matches.

They were ALL alts of veteran players, freshly created today!

Not only that, but I could see all of their second alts, were scheduled for removal.

So tomorrow, they will have a fresh alt, and schedule today's alt for removal.

I am competitive, but what drives players to do this, slaughter players that are in many cases patently helpless?

The Academy is for new players to get their bearings, relatively risk free. Learn the maps, drop an uplink, spawn on uplink, try out the starter fits, scan, and hack.

Whatever, just writing this makes me furious. Just thought I would share that some will go to incredible lengths to grief, or pad their self esteem.

On the subject of squads leaving matches.

I think it's fairly uncommon for complete squads to say "sod it", and leave game when they face tough opposition or a specific map. Even if they are, both of these scenarios will improve with the new matchmaking (and hopefully map rotation fix).

The real (common) reason squads drop is because they are not complete, I.e either Scotty or a squad member screwed up.
(I have screwed up on several occasions by pressing the wrong button).
Now, we can't do super much with Scotty and his buddy Murphy. **** will always happen sometimes... But perhaps we can do something about the players screw ups?

For example:
- Disable exiting Battle Finder for all squad members apart from squad leader.
- Allow squad leaders (not in battle) to remotely cause squad members to leave battle (to reform).
- Allow squad members left of battle to join or re-join games with their squad if room is available on the team.
(if no places are available at the moment, put them in a queue with "waiting for deployment)

For the times when leaving battle is unavoidable:
- Investigate and remove the horrible "out-of-sync" bug where the game thinks half the squad is still in battle even if they are not, forcing the disband and reforming of squads.

Implement a cool-down timer or ISK fee on leaving battles. Call it like, a contractual severence fine or something.

Wanna leave early? Going to have to wait until that battle is effectively over before joining a new one.
Wanna leave early? Going to have to forfeit your ISK earnings and pay a fee for ducking out.

If anything, would weaponize the cowards' boredom and/or be a nice ISK sink.

Like this idea.

The Cowardly Cowards Leaderboard.

Perhaps rolling alts for this purpose should be a bannable offence just like it is in EVE with rolling alts to avoid security status from suicide etc...

I have a question.

What happens when you have a squad with players from both brackets?

I would assume it would follow who ever is squad lead.

This would be great except for those lovely PSN disconnects or the random internet outage.

Either people who have internet issues would get screwed or the whole system would just be circumvented by turning off your PS3.

On a related "stomp mentality" that I find absolutely pathetic.

Story time:

I was playing as a new character this morning, to try out the lower Mu bracket.

After a while, I start seeing familiar names on the killscreen, going maybe 20/5, which is basically an exit criteria on its own.

I got curious, and looked up the top ranking players on both sides for my matches.

They were ALL alts of veteran players, freshly created today!

Not only that, but I could see all of their second alts, were scheduled for removal.

So tomorrow, they will have a fresh alt, and schedule today's alt for removal.

I am competitive, but what drives players to do this, slaughter players that are in many cases patently helpless?

The Academy is for new players to get their bearings, relatively risk free. Learn the maps, drop an uplink, spawn on uplink, try out the starter fits, scan, and hack.

Whatever, just writing this makes me furious. Just thought I would share that some will go to incredible lengths to grief, or pad their self esteem.

Yeah, I've been seeing full squads leave battle and then we end up with 12 v 3.

Train map?