Hide the other team's character names.

Hide the other team's character names.

if the reds control all points for more than x amount of time, the defending faction starts dropping supplies. free vehicles? isk drops?

or...

the winning teams top x players are offered a bribe to switch sides midmatch.

:)

Regardless of the discussion on whether match making is broken or not, no one can argue that 90+% of the time that matchmaker puts you in something, the sides are uneven and the match outcome is already pre-determined.

Hide the other team's character names.

If Scotty must serve low-quality matches, adjusting pay scales would be the very best way to keep players playing.

As a given lobby's Mu disparity increases, the underdog SP / Isk multiplier increases. The steeper the odds are against you, the more you get paid at the end of the match. Once it is worthwhile to do so, more players will stick it out and fight through the low-quality matches.

Regardless of the discussion on whether match making is broken or not, no one can argue that 90+% of the time that matchmaker puts you in something, the sides are uneven and the match outcome is already pre-determined.

Make it so risking your hide in a stompfest does more than feed WP and ISK to those doing the stomping. Make it so losers and victims of stomps/bad matchmaking have cause to stay and fight it out (besides the laughable notion of "e-honor").

And this is the great fallacy that has corrupted the playerbase.... (I'm not picking on you demens just the sentiment you expressed)

"There are 10 players on my side and 13 on theirs. We are so screwed. Lets bail. "

Initial conditions (before the match began and anybody dropped to the ground) were even based on the Mu sum of each of the teams.


That last part is the most important part. An equal Mu sum total may require one team to be larger than the other to balance the equation.

Get it?

The equation does not care about the disparity of the player count because it attempts to predict a balanced match based on the factors it incorporates.

What people do when they hit the ground is entirely up to skill, luck and.....and overall attitude!

If one gets caught up in "how many more guys do they have?" you are done before your second spawn.

I was in a Dom last night where we had them by 4 players (16-10). That is 25% advantage according to those who don't understand matchmaking. It was the hardest fight of the night and it didn't go our way for 1/3 of the match. Nobody from either team was out hacking crap or joy riding in a tank as we had a real fight on our hands. We ended the match with only 14 clones but won on MCC armor. 10 mercs almost beat 16. That might seem a bit messed up to some of you but that is exactly what you should expect when random veteran players stay focused and keep their heads.




As a note to CCP: Perhaps a way to soften this whole thing is to add another factor in the equation that restricts the max difference between teams to 2 players.

This won't fix the stomps but it will make the players "feel" like they are getting a fair shake at the start of the match.

As much as I resent the idea of dust turning into a CSGO ripoff... maybe we could give a penalty for leaving a match?

Getting people to stay in matches requires the carrot, not the stick.

Then what do you suggest?

I suggest you stop caring about it.