Glad to hear it. What is you lifetime SP?

Anyone who posts out here now to flame should put in their current lifetime SP. The only angry people I know for a fact have over 20 mil SP (I am in that bucket). If you are going to be salty vets, then you were contributing to the previous problem. Even in basic gear you stomped the blues and reds.
Now you can effectively expect the blue berry to be stupid and yell at him because he failed on purpose. I think CCP expects this to drive the vets to PCs to manage their own fun.
Or maybe we can queue sync some FW. We all know how to queue sync and (Heaven forbid) fight each other!!! Blasphemy!!!

Not looking forward to this matchmaking all of a sudden.

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.

That will happen as soon as possible.

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.

Oh gods! The wait times are atrocious.

On another note, i like this less crowded matches, 10v10 or something like that would be perfect.

As far as quitting early, CCP could suspend passive SP gain for 24 hours if you quit match x number of times per day. X would be a reasonable number, decided by the community (3-4 perhaps?).

OK so more constructively:

All domination, EU server, 2 times it was the 'train map' so maybe people pulled out.

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.

It seems based on feedback that the issues only are being experienced by the upper tiers of the Vets, aka the equivalent of the players who have to wait 10 or so min in Leauge / CS. Lower levels seem to have no issue with getting into games based on alt / friend experience. (And those matches are well balanced)

Perhaps the only issue is working on the higher level brackets?

It seems based on feedback that the issues only are being experienced by the upper tiers of the Vets, aka the equivalent of the players who have to wait 10 or so min in Leauge / CS. Lower levels seem to have no issue with getting into games based on alt / friend experience. (And those matches are well balanced)

Perhaps the only issue is working on the higher level brackets?

On another note, i like this less crowded matches, 10v10 or something like that would be perfect.

All of my yes.



What constitutes excessive? I had to make additional PSNs to A: be able to have a char for each race, and, related to above, B: get passive SP for said chars so I wouldn't have to destroy my soul grinding. I was thinking about making another one, too, to see what all the new starter fittings are like (especially the Plasma Cannon fit!) and potentially replace an old alt I don't like. Of course, CCP could just find a way to give them to us on existing chars...

As for leaving matches, my squads will usually only do so if a player gets dropped or we get the train map for the 3rd-87th time in a session. If only players were able to join a squad already deployed in battle and map rotation tweaked.

Dear players,

...

We are tuning the minimum teamsize to start games, and also the status of a running game, and whether to refill or simply let it die since it is already lost. There is an unresolved issue of big strong squads leaving battles. If this continues, we may have to figure out a way to "stop" that behaviour.

...

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.

There are a lot of players out there that operate like this.

It's the same reason we have matches where players keep leaving battles when they see there might be a stiff fight.

Idea: The more lopsided a match, the more the underdog earns. For those 3 mercs above who remained to face Kain Spero's stompsquad, each would earn the maximum payout -- face value of all equipment/gear he destroys in addition to his regular EOM pay.

I'll give Kain Spero's stompsquad a great time, so long as it pays to do so. Otherwise, I'm throwing away my isk and stats as the pubstompers pad theirs. It isn't my job to entertain partyboy stompsquads. But make it worth my while to give 'em hell and hell they'll get, no matter how steep the odds.

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.

That will happen as soon as possible.