It bothers me so much that blueberries just leave games all the time. I'm sick and tired of getting into 14 people vs 16 people matches and then having it immediately go to 12 vs 12, and by the end, it's 10 vs 10 or less. It's an epidemic that everyone on the Forum hates, but it still keeps happening

I'd pray for redline snipers before being on a 6:14 game.

I know that CCP has indicated they are working on game features which is great but one thing that should also be looked at is battles that are not full or have teams that are undermanned by far because people leave battle.

I have been in teams that seem like they just give up and played against teams that are unfairly outgunned. I feel that this will do harm to the game itself because players may feel they'll have no chance by being horridly outnumbered or others may feel there isn't a challenge because without competition you can't progress.

Isn't that kind of the same thing?

My problem is getting stuck with cowardly mercs that run away at the sight of any resistance

even in stacked games were my side starts with 16 has the advantage thanks to me or some other speed scout that gets to the point first

say they have 10 people a squad and 4 randoms, that single squad annihilates my team because instead of holding the point and fighting back they spread out go over 100m away from the objective and leave me and one other random to actually do anything

at this point the squad takes the point, my side tried to kill them instead they get farmed because they think walking in front of a proto heavy getting repped is a good idea and end up leaving making the game 4 v 10

by that time the other side has started to fill up making it a 5 v 16

one random joins our side just to go ahead and leave and the other randoms are tired of dying so they end up leaving or just afk in the redline making it a 3 v 16 where one guy keeps dying one guy is afk and who knows what the other one is doing

I left at the point where my team started acting like zombies near the beginning, I'm not wasting my time in a game where my team is full of scrubs that cant even aim properly, I can possibly carry an ambush, I can speed hack objectives to get an advantage in skirm, but I cant carry a game of acquisition or domination as a solo player

the unfair match ups are mostly in part to sorry players that don't want to risk anything as long as there is at least 10 players on my side I will always stay even if its a losing battle as long as my team is actually trying, there have been plenty of times that I got into an uneven match against full proto team but because of 2 or 3 good players we managed to pull off a win

unfortunately most mercs out there are cowards which is why I strongly agree that players who choose to leave matches of their own free will should receive punishment, something similar to FW would suffice. Removed from x (game mode) for x amount of hours