Self serving pointless thread.

No one cares.

Grow a pair and quit crying.

Not for him.

"I got mine" mentality

I honestly don't see the problem with AFKing , I stop doing it because of Whiny bitches but just ignore them.

To get 150 WP quickly I would use a shotgun scout The speed lets you hack some yellow installations pick a good spot for an uplink and maybe get some kills,

Suffering from
Artificial Value Inflation?

Well, that's your fault. If you farm up WP, but don't really add anything to the winning effort, the matchmaker doesn't know this. It says "good player, this will balance these bad player" and puts you on a team.
If you did supply as much value to the field as you farm, you'd be in more winning battles.

It's times like these when I wonder if the matchmaking is broken or if our playerbase are a bunch of risk averse pansies...

Play your matches, lose and yeah maybe even get stomped. Your mu score will adjust accordingly and place you in matches with players more your skill level. There's no shame in it.

There is shame in AFK'ing though. Why play the game at all? Just quit and be done with it.

Fighting in cheap/free fittings > jerking off in the MCC

Sometimes you are the lion. Sometimes you are the gazelle. If you happen to spawn in as a gazelle be sure to kill at least a few lions before they murder you.

Oh hell, I'm wasting my time here aren't I? You are going to sit in a puddle of your own piddle in the red line ground spawn regardless of what I say here.

It isn't smart to post a picture of how you jury rigged your controller to AFK. Pretty certain CCP frowns on that in a big way. Rattati hates it, if I can recall.

My constructive criticism is to play the game and not AFK.

He'll look at it as a sign of an inflated mu score, more than likely. It may taken some time, and a lot of tears and badposting, but your mu will level out and you'll be right as rain...

Assuming you actually participate in matches ever.

Says the guy who advertises his AFK habits Isn't that like calling the cops because the guy you assaulted called you a dirty name?

At least I don't AFK, which is a big plus. When I am getting stomped I figure out ways to stay in the match and participate.

I saw you once. You red line sniped the entire time. Then, in my corp recruitment thread, you asked to join us if you could red line snipe I told you no.

I find anything that makes you rage this hard Aeon to be very, very entertaining.

Change the world Chosen One! My energy for the Spirit Bomb you are about to unleash on CCP!

But bluntly Aeon, you need to check your ego. You do not get to play primary redline sniper and get to claim that you're amazing. It doesn't work like that. The nerd in the assault suit that continually runs rings around my proto fatsuits and drops me consistently?

He gets to claim badassery.

Redline snipers just get hunted for sport and the pleasure of destroying thales. The redline is for risk aversion and I will forever dismiss any claim to "skill" by anyone who spends most of their time there.

But if you're continually geting rekt because the other team outnumbers you? Blame the matchmaking tier.

Congratulations. You're In the top tier. Not many are, and until we get a few more, the top tier is going to suck ass.

A better way to say it would be the top tier is starved for enough players. The bracket I'm in performs beautifully.

You are just part of the problem. LOL. The matchmaker thinks your good, if you are paired up against other good players it's a compliment lol. According to you though, the matchmaker is wrong, and you are truly bad.

Just wanting to point this point, since we now have a devblog discussing matchmaking improvements.


KDR - Can be increased to absurd levels by redline sniping.
WP/D - Keeping your death count low by avoiding combat via sniping would also inflate this ratio...
W/L - In this post you state that you ran squads with RnD/Negative Feedback folks which may have upped this ratio too. By sniping the ratio may have leveled out. For argument sake, I'll pretend you are "average" in this particular ratio.

That's 2 out of 3 indicators of player skill being artificially increased.

Your mu score is controlled by your actions. Perhaps one of the reasons some players are experiencing issues with the matchmaking improvements while others are not is due to their predilection for low risk, high reward playstyles.

If that is the case, then AFK'ing will not solve your problem, Aeon. It might lower your W/L ratio, but your KDR and WP/D will stay the same.

You will have to fit a non-sniper rifle and get into the fight. Pick up some newer players and squad with them. Teach them what you know and be 100% ready to die a bunch. Initially the matches may be stomps, but as your mu score adjusts itself you will be put into more and more balanced matches.

That is my attempt at not-in-any-way-trolling-completely-sincere advice. Good luck and godspeed.

I dont personally get too many games that are nearly over that's not to say that they dont still happen because they do. If you keep getting a lot of nearly done game then that IS a big problem that CCP should definitely look into.

Aeon mate this is how matches have been for me playing solo for a lot longer than just this last matchmaker hotfix.

The way I see it is, if my team is really crappy, it means I will knock the WP figure up nice and high and bag a lot of isk n SP. (I lose more isk to achieve that however..... would this be your experience too?)

By the way man, next time your online hit me up, I will run some squads so you can see the kind of matches I get into on the EU servers. Some of them can be absolutely great fun brawlfests, others are massive stomps.

Does the term "Ad Hominem" mean anything to you?

I am about as anti the new matchmaking system as it gets, and suffer from many of the same problems you do. And while I've made posts bitching about it I didn't even bother reading past the title and instantly assumed that you're just a life-long AFK scrub lord.