There is one documented and verified complaint, from a player that I can't remember who was. Basically a weird case of a 4 match unluck streak. Every other case, where I have checked, have been exaggerations like:

"I have had nothing but 5/12 matches all day", that have in fact been all 14v14+, and one battle where a 6 man squad dropped early and the player lost.

It is not worse or better to run solo before or after, and the facts are that battles overall are far more equal than before, at the cost of a little increased waiting time. If you ever go above 5 minutes waiting for pubs, you should either exit and try again, or sign up for more modes. Selecting a single mode, at low pcu times, may cause increased waiting.

I don't understand why so many people drop out just because they see a full squad of same corp players, it does not guarantee them a win..but you leaving sure as hell gives them a better shot at it. I rarely even see full corp squads tbh , and when I do it's most often outer heaven or planet express..and they do not always win. stop being chicken ***** and get out there and fight!!

There is one documented and verified complaint, from a player that I can't remember who was. Basically a weird case of a 4 match unluck streak. Every other case, where I have checked, have been exaggerations like:

"I have had nothing but 5/12 matches all day", that have in fact been all 14v14+, and one battle where a 6 man squad dropped early and the player lost.

It is not worse or better to run solo before or after, and the facts are that battles overall are far more equal than before, at the cost of a little increased waiting time. If you ever go above 5 minutes waiting for pubs, you should either exit and try again, or sign up for more modes. Selecting a single mode, at low pcu times, may cause increased waiting.

The issue is players...You look at the enemy...see they are stacked...do not think your team can win so you play cheap or leave. Now Have 5 out of the 16 doing what you just did and that's why MM can feel off.

There is one documented and verified complaint, from a player that I can't remember who was. Basically a weird case of a 4 match unluck streak. Every other case, where I have checked, have been exaggerations like:

"I have had nothing but 5/12 matches all day", that have in fact been all 14v14+, and one battle where a 6 man squad dropped early and the player lost.

It is not worse or better to run solo before or after, and the facts are that battles overall are far more equal than before, at the cost of a little increased waiting time. If you ever go above 5 minutes waiting for pubs, you should either exit and try again, or sign up for more modes. Selecting a single mode, at low pcu times, may cause increased waiting.

There is still a problem with people massquitting matches. In some occasions i saw that 10 people left the match in the beginning and it didnt filled up neither which meant it was 15vs5. There needs to be a incentive or punishment against consequitive quitting to prevent "lobbyshopping". Those matches are just plain boring for all players who stayed cause the team with the advantage can just proceed to redline and the team with players down cant do anything due to the fact they are outnumbered 3:1.

A lot of players are loving the new matchmaking system, but my initial experiences were quite bad. Being a vet, and having a period of time where I played during off-peak hours probably contributed to the system generating much worse games for me then most players were experiencing. However, since matches are getting better I'm glad I didn't rush my judgement on it.

my video on this topic should up on youtube soon, http://youtu.be/GoQKn5Cr5NY

I wonder if allowing no names to be seen on enemy team would curb and by how much players leaving in the 1st minute.

I think this is a very interesting point.

Most of the complaints I have seen are from very good Vet players, who's Mu was probably very high from the outset.
I don't dismiss that they might be Gods of FPS, but maybe their Mu was artificially high due to the non-existing matchmaker we had before.

1) This would make it very hard to find equal Mu players, resulting in long wait times (and probably a few Scotty errors).
2) People will recognise their names (and corp) and might be more likely to leave before match start.
3) They themselfs might be more prone to leave when they face stiff competition?
4) whatever other reason they have

Now to the point: I don't know what happens to your Mu if you leave early.
Will it be untouched? Is it just adjusted for the time you were in-game?

My suspicion is that Mu does not change much, thus making them keep their high Mu scores and continue to have the same problems. If you stick in the games, the score will eventually adjust itself but it might take some time.

Of course, it could also be that the pool of players with the super high (accurate) Mu is very small, leading to the above problem but will sadly not get fixed...

Even if the matchmaking finds equal players it doesn't mean those players will choose to participate. That's the problem.

Trying to fool players into participating in poorly matched battles isn't the solution. Vesta's solution is better. Leave battle and give match making another chance.

There's no incentive to win..unfortunately

... and what exactly was the incentive before??? stomp people below you? I fail to see the reasoning of this logic of no incentive.

Increased rewards would be nice.. but that is some fkd **** to say .. how old is this game? This **** sounds like the same thing afk people would say to counter how much they sucked

Vesta, I will chart my games these next couple of days.

Tuesday night I did play a 6 vs 16 and another 9 vs 15 but both were players leaving the game...one was half my squad left. One went to bed...the other 2 afk'ed till kicked.

But many games had 12 to 16 as the starting numbers... I would say 90% of them. A 12 vs 12 is still MM working in my opinion.
But my memory may lie so I will chart.

I wonder if allowing no names to be seen on enemy team would curb and by how much players leaving in the 1st minute.

Trying to fool players into participating in poorly matched battles isn't the solution. Vesta's solution is better. Leave battle and give match making another chance.

CCP requires players to go out and buy recording equipment and then to spend all their time recording partly filled / mostly finished matches, in order to consider verifying that it's a thing.

If there were enough players playing to fill up spaces as they were made, it wouldn't matter so much. However, when a few people start to drop right off the bat, the scales pretty much never tip back. I barely play compared to a lot of you neckbeards, and I still run into this plenty.

But, since I can't be bothered to do CCPs documenting, I'm making it up to stir dissent

... and what exactly was the incentive before??? stomp people below you? I fail to see the reasoning of this logic of no incentive.

Increased rewards would be nice.. but that is some fkd **** to say .. how old is this game? This **** sounds like the same thing afk people would say to counter how much they sucked

There is one documented and verified complaint, from a player that I can't remember who was. Basically a weird case of a 4 match unluck streak. Every other case, where I have checked, have been exaggerations like:

"I have had nothing but 5/12 matches all day", that have in fact been all 14v14+, and one battle where a 6 man squad dropped early and the player lost.

It is not worse or better to run solo before or after, and the facts are that battles overall are far more equal than before, at the cost of a little increased waiting time. If you ever go above 5 minutes waiting for pubs, you should either exit and try again, or sign up for more modes. Selecting a single mode, at low pcu times, may cause increased waiting.