Do you also want chat to be removed? because to coordinate you need communication. Seriously the only reason this game has been going this long is because of its social interactivity. If PC was more rewarding to low-mid tier players we would see less pub stomping. Just look at the DK market that thing is a joke.

I don't think I have ever seen a post from you that was not a quarter mile long. I don't know whether to be impressed or scared, but at least you're dedicated to your opinions.

Now, to get on subject. I would have agreed with you back when squad sizes were six. Almost half the scoreboard? Yeah, your guys could easily stomp if you knew how to work together and the opposing team was entirely randoms/their squad wasn't as good. But nowadays? With a squad size of four? I don't know how things are for you, but squad sizes are perfect for pubs right now. You can bring in friends to fight together, you're a strong enough force to turn the tide if you try for it, but you aren't enough on your own to completely own the match. And I've got to agree with Xavier here. A lot of people squadding up in pubs aren't the tactically minded individuals you take them to be. Even among corpmates and friends, whether we're completely owning the field or getting our asses stomped, pretty much all we do is talk to each other. Before I joined Corsy and started actually communicating with other people I always dreaded an obvious squad on the other team, because, like you, I thought it was basically an immediate ass whooping because they would all be communicating and actually supporting each other, and blah, blah, blah.

And then I joined my corp, got to actually talk with and even squad with several people who I thought were really serious players and, can you guess? They're just people who like playing the game, are kinda good at it, and because they're squadded up they can help each other out better. Aside from that? **** talk for days. It's hilarious looking back on it, but I actually started out talking these people in squad chat trying to be serious and tactical and their general response was 'oh, cool, okay'. Now? 'Hey, there's a tank on Alpha. Who wants to see how bad I can **** him off?' Spent an entire three minutes just chasing him and jumping on top of him and dodging his rail gun and it was god damn hilarious.

Radiant Pancak3 and I even pulled out **** fit MinSents with dual Scrambler Pistols to just **** with people once. We still did decently that match, we still won that match, but there was no coordination at all. We were just ******* around and enjoying ourselves.

But even completely disregarding all that, Dust 514 is still a team based 'tactical' game, whatever that word even means anymore. Suggesting that people who work together are ruining the game is downright silly, because it's the people who are refusing to work together that are pulling themselves down, and their teams with them. Yeah, people who squad up can be a pretty strong deciding factor in a match. But can you imagine how matches would go if everyone were squadded up and actually trying their best, rather than just a single squad on one team and a bunch of randoms on the other? The people who are squadding up are the ones who are playing the game right. The people who are squadding up are the ones who are actually trying to improve the game. It's the people who outright, blatantly refuse to work together with anyone that are making this game suck.

I mean, your signature even says it. "Teamwork is really important."

Now, on the other hand, if I'm just completely misunderstanding what you're saying and you aren't complaining about squads, but people trying to q-sync in pubs to field up to 8 people in a single match, yeah, that's absolute bull **** and totally stupid. But I haven't encountered that issue at all since squad sizes got reduced, and I imagine that it's both rare and at least mildly difficult to pull off.

Lol, we have meetings where we yell at people who were spotted using ADV.

Those people don't get their alloted billions that week. We never ask where the ISK comes from, but we sometimes wonder, being that PC hasn't been an ISK faucet for close to a year.

So you don't think joining a pub where your team might consist of 3 tankers, 4 ADS pilots, 4 snipers, 4 guys trying to complete the destroy installation mission is a random occurance that has more to do with getting stomped than the squad on the other side that's able to win the match easily?

I think you are completely missing my point. If I was in an NPC Corp I'd still have the same view. You used to see more squads. I've been complaining about this for years. I've said it many times that having a majority of solo players doing random stuff in matches removes the ability for any matchmaking system to work.

If you take squads out of pubs completely it would be the death of Dust.