If matchmaking and team balancing in combination are doing what they are supposed to, that shouldn't matter.

I ran solo the other night and had plenty of good games.

It depends on who you ask.

As a veteran, it has gotten far better than before in my opinion as I am no longer put into a game filled with scrubs or protostompers. But after testing out the matchmaking from a new-player perspective, I think it needs work.

Now later in the day with more people on it seems a bit more balanced, I don't generally pay much attention to teams to say for squad balance but matches don't seem so one sided.

I haven't tried it with a new character yet, what did you find Maken?

Also, i've been noticing big variation from playsession to playsession on my main and alt. At this point don't know what part of that variation is natural, what part is CCP experimentation and what part is the matchmaker adjusting each toon's mu.

I'm sorry...
What?

Do what I do.

At the start of every match, look at the roster. Count how many players are on both sides. Midway through the match, check again. And then once more at the end of the match. Doing that along with observing their scores relative to each other should give you an idea on what's going on.

As I fight in my main character with tons of SP invested in it, I see balanced matches. However, looking at it from my newbie alt, it's completely different story. What I suspect is going on here is that the matchmaker is accidentally pitting new players against maybe low-tier veterans who are not as good compared to the high-tier veterans, but are still overwhelmingly powerful against a newbie because they happen to have better weapons overall.

Remember, I managed to leave the academy in just 3 matches in a new character. That is nowhere near enough time for a new player to be able to build up enough SP to optimize their fittings.

What I recommend to remedy this problem is to split the academy into two tiers. Low-tier new players would stick around for a while even after grinding (let's say) 20 matches so they can get a chance to build up their SP before moving onto the second tier where they then face off against slightly-better new players for about the same amount of time or maybe longer. By the time they graduate from the academy, they should be able to accumulate enough SP to at least beef up their core skills and maybe some of their guns.

Also, the tutorial system needs to be re-enabled to help the players better understand the game.

A new player should never have to face off against a veteran after just 3 matches in the academy.

Im surprise that u didn't take liberty of understand what I meant and since u decide not to really pay any mind of what said there no point of explaining it to you again.

Im surprise that u didn't take liberty of understand what I meant and since u decide not to really pay any mind of what said there no point of explaining it to you again.

I was wondering about this and I saw it for myself when queueing earlier. On my team were 14 solo players. Enemy team had 2 squads on a full side. LOL. And that's what you get for running solo.

10+ min?, i've played Dust for about 12hours total since the matchmakings been in effect, and hav'nt waited longer than 2min to get into a Pub match. Guess i'm lucky

perfect balanced 114v14 or higher

literally impossible

It's not always wise to take forum statements at face value. Players waiting consistently for 10 mins does not happen. It can happen as an extreme one-off cases, one in every 1000 battles.

Just like players that said they had nothing but 3 v 16 matches for a whole day. Out of 12 battles I checked on those statements, 12 started as perfect balanced 114v14 or higher, one battle players quit to take it down to 3v16. The rest were full and fought until the end.

Now later in the day with more people on it seems a bit more balanced, I don't generally pay much attention to teams to say for squad balance but matches don't seem so one sided.

Does not seem perfectly balanced... :D

I am working on a combined combat rank score to display on EOM

it's been mostly good for me. Slightly longer que time for matches, the occasional unbalanced team numbers. When it's full game , I have had much beter fights. Had a skirmish last night that was the closest game I have ever played.

We were losing , the enemy had control of 3 out of the 4 objectives. We had about 10% armor left on MCC , they had over half of their armor still. It looked to be a loss, but I managed to hop into a scout with uplinks and hacked 2 of the objectives and dropped the links and fought off glimmerin inivsa scouts with shotguns and a plasma cannon wielding sentinal on one of the objectives , while the rest of the team secured the 3rd objective and attempted to hold on. We were both sitting there with just a sliver of MCC health, it was over any time and the enemy had managed to hack back 3 of the null cannons , but before they could get online ofr their side we pulled off the victory.. one more null shot and we were going to be the loser, **** was epic.

Any chance we could also add assists as well as ISK-efficiency to the EoM?

Pretty please....

What are you lifetime stats though??
I have a 1.50 KDR, low enough, but glady I fight the better players (before+after update)
Adding in my 8mil + lifetime WP, maybe Scotty has me confused with someone who isn't a scrub

I'm seeing a few posts regarding this, and one guy was boasting that he was in lower-tier..
I REALLY hope that our playerbase doesn't become a pack of window lickers trying to lower their stats
So they can avoid getting murdered, let's just pray that CCP have this one figured out (pllleeeeaaassseee)

^ This is why I think an Easy/Hard mode should be available...

Obviously different rewards for each, why have players given no incentive to fight at a higher level?

Any chance we could also add assists as well as ISK-efficiency to the EoM?

I am working on a combined combat rank score to display on EOM