WT Sherman wrote:About the prize or bonus sp and isk to be given, seems to me that giving the sp to just the winners will just further unbalance any future tests of corp battles. They won because of skill and already being able to field better fits, another mill sp will just let them max out something else with the losers never being able to catch up and obtain parity
I quit the last amarr match last night. Why, because when I joined the match we were out numbered with snipers and tanks, including STB-TED, parked as close as they could get to our spawn point. After dying twice trying to get a look around the corners of the buildings I decided f this s*** and quit.
The Amarr won either our first or second match and have lost every other match, usually in a slaughter due to tanks. One match they had a tank sitting in the middle of the road with 2 logistics behind him healing him as he took damage. Managed to kill one and run the other off and the tank withdrew for a minute and then returned and continued the slaughter. The match we won was evenly balanced without all the tanks and we won with a few ticks left on our armor.
I hate losing but I don't mind going 1/8 when I at least get a chance to fight back. I don't like going 0/12 when there is no chance.
Don't know exactly what CCP is testing here because they haven't said. In my opinion these tests aren't very good in that they don't give any type of info except on how hard it is to get into matches with so many people in the corps. Participation from the Templars wasn't what it should have been. There was no communication pre match and no way to do that if you wanted to unless you already have a TS server and were willing to open it up to the randoms in your "corp".
STB seems to have solved the problem of grouping by having all their members sign up for the same faction when they created their chars. There seemed to be 3 or 4 of them in every match against the Amarr and they were usually in tanks or dropships.
Player owner corps will fix some of these problems. Prematch selection of players for the types of fits they can bring would happen. You would have the players you need in the numbers needed or you just wouldn't take the contract. These things can be done on our own personal corp forum .
Dust voice coms seem to be working, at least in the corp matches people were generally on coms. It is hard to tell why almost no one uses coms during the regular matches.