Skirmish was copy/pasted and tweaked to become Domination. Domination is essentially the same as Skirmish, but with only one point, and no objective-spawning.

Acquisition so far is fun, but also just tweaked SUPERIOR version of Domination. Like Domination, it has only one point that you can't spawn on, but instead of stagnating into boring one-sided kill farming, it actually remains dynamic.

Skirmish and Acquisition are different enough compared to each other, but Domination is like some pointless vistegial transition phase that is now obsolete. This is a problem because all it does is divide the playerbase even further.

I think Domination should be removed from the public battle listings. Some of you may be reticent to support this, as it appears like I'm suggesting removing content from the game, but keep in mind that Domination is just an inferior version of content we already have (Acquisition).

While I hate it, I would not mind if it was used in something else like Planetary Conquest, or Faction Warfare, or do something else with it. I heard some suggested putting Domination and Skirmish in the same queue, and I DO NOT support this because I don't want my Skirmish experience ruined with Domination.

Might want to fix Acquisition first though. Having one farmable home spawn, no real indicator of when you're going to win or lose, and objectives in the redline are all issues that need addressing.

Again though, I don't believe in removing content just because CCP fails to build and retain their player base. We shouldn't be punished for CCPs failings.

Might want to fix Acquisition first though. Having one farmable home spawn, no real indicator of when you're going to win or lose, and objectives in the redline are all issues that need addressing.

Again though, I don't believe in removing content just because CCP fails to build and retain their player base. We shouldn't be punished for CCPs failings.

I say keep domination. A single, protected spawn with a clone count plays out completely differently.

I don't squad because socializing is gross and waiting around for people to start another match is even worse. I'd run my own squad, but squad leading from a dropship is kind of like placing a collect call with a cup of juice.

Forcing players into matches they have no desire to be in isn't exactly a superb way of convincing them to play....

The playerbase is falling apart because matches are boring. They are boring because people don't have an incentive to fight.
Join some random squad finder squads, ask them why they aren't pushing. "I'm not going to lose ISK this match".
People make posts about it and they go ignored or people say to run BPOs and that's that.

I am forced to play alongside solo players for 99% of my Dust play time and I hate it.

But ... I mean ... that's what cheap-suits are for. I have 7k and 8k suits that perform decently in matches, and if that's still not enough then using the starter BPOs is surely better than just sitting in the red zone masturbating.

I would kill for a solo game mode but we come full circle to not having enough players to support it.

I don't mind playing against full squads, it's more fun that way, but when the enemy has 12 people all working together and your team is just a bunch of randoms it breaks down pretty damn fast.

With the vast number of people queuing solo all the time this is just the way it'll always be. Unless they incentivize squading.

It's the reason why things never seem balanced and it's certainly why we'll likely never see proto vehicles.

We have proto vehicles....

You could pay me 10 million ISK for playing a match with a squad and I would STILL play solo lol.

AKA, camped redline matches. Like EVERY dom match I have ever seen lmao.

People like their easy wins, good luck prying it away from them

Lol, so apparently everyone gets thrown on the same side in Dom, and its always an easy win.

No hard loss for the other side?

Couldn't possibly turn into a good match even...

People who don't play Dom shouldn't comment on it.

I play domination a lot less than I used to. Conservatively I'd estimate that I experience matches where both sides keep pushing for the point in domination 10% of the time.

Two scenarios usually happen:

1) Team races to the point and captures the objective. The other team shows up and pushes them off the point. Sniping and other forms of camping ensue.

2) Team races to the point and captures the objective. The other team starts sniping and camping from afar and aside from a few heroes, nobody even considers the lone objective a factor.

AKA, camped redline matches. Like EVERY dom match I have ever seen lmao.

People like their easy wins, good luck prying it away from them

Every acquisition battle today has been the same way for me.

I haven't played in a couple weeks, but I used to play Dom 90% of the time. I would estimate 50% or better to be decent matches, 30% redlines, and 20% hard fought.

I push regardless how much isk I lose. 1 guy can make a huge difference in Dom. Drop some links and defend them, then watch how many snipers come out of the redline.

Poor Quality Idea Kagehoshi.

No. Poor quality response True Adamance. I explained my reasoning clearly and concisely, yet you give me just 4 words.

Your reasoning boils down to the new game mode making the current Domination redundant and therefore rather than make the move of the Skirmish Gamemode solely to FW, which admittedly no one wants, you would rather see the redundant game mode implanted in FW.



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Indicate to me this is purely your personal opinion so let me try to quantify mine in response.

Factional Warfare should represent the step between Public Contracts and Planetary Conquest with competitive game-play requiring co-ordination, communication, and tactical acumen. Domination at its core is a "Mob and Charge" game mode with very little tactical requirements other than to place as much equipment on the point as possible and to congregate around said point to defend it.

Combatants in this mode often

- End up being stomped off the objective by Prototype Tier Players who then are able to reinforce their position
- End up sniping from the Redline and contributing nothing to the team of the match other than the preservation of their content
- End up running onto the aforementioned Prototype Players guns to die

Also worth noting

- The value of vehicles on specific maps designed for Domination is sporadic at best as many Domination Objectives are close off to vehicles, additionally beyond rushing the point's higher levels and entry ways vehicles have little enough value or presence on the field.
- Domination directs all players are a central objective which degenerates from a tactical battle into twitch based chaos.