I used to call this behaviour "CS Syndrome" back in the day, but now when I googled it I realized it's an actual definition of something else. So I will stop using that definition.

TLDR;

Maybe there is a real definition for what I'm referring to.

The kind of behaviour that really annoys me, when it comes to teamplay. Is that if a team is stocked with better players and/or corporations. And your own team is only equipped with a few, usually the good ones in your team will leave and if "lucky"(their perspective) they'll end up in the team that is steamrolling their "old" team.

I've been in for a few matches now and ended up against som really heavy names steamrolling me. But I have that stupid kind of mentality "No surrender, no retreat". Unfortunately it ends up with me and if I'm lucky a few others embarking on a personal crusade, which oftenly ends up in a prolonged endeavour to avoid being "canon fodder". Which has proven itself inevitable!

The rest of the team kinda forms a "blob" of free kills at the edge of the red zone for the opposing team.

I think there will be a sollution to this soon, when all corps will be going mostly head to head. With the occasional "pub-stomp". I guess I have myself to blame going solo, not teaming up.

Also it might be that I'm matched against the US creme de la creme, playing early EU times. Since I believe it's only the most ambitious playing that late in the US.

My 2 cents, anyone seen this strategy/behaviour? Have the actual word for it? Maybe a psychological perspective?

I understand noone likes to get steamrolled, but from my standpoint it's no fun being the steamroller either! You want equally skilled enemies or slightly better to evolve!

TLDR; (am I doing it right?)

When gettting pubstomped/steamrolled, people tend to leave or try to join the other team.

After reading this one question arose in my head: how should leaving a match be punished.

Gameplay wise, leaving a match is a way to abuse matchmaking system by trying to be in a match where you can farm more SP/ISK.
Lore wise, you sign a contract with NPC corporation when join a match and the contract should have some clause that says how you should be punished if you decline to do what you signed to do. Also NCP corporation should think twice when hiring you again.

At this moment the only punishment is that a player won't receive as much SP/ISK as they could if he stay in a match until the end. At first, this isn't really a punishment. Also, a player who will take the place of the player who left a match, will be punished as well.

The first TL;DR confuses me

As one possible idea, I think you shouldn't be able to join another match while the match you left from is still ongoing (sign another contract with NCP corporation while the current one is still in effect). How do you think?

It's a common enough phenomenon, the reason they do it is because the matchmaking system in the game isn't where we'd like it to be. There is an old EVE adage (don't fly what you can't afford to lose) now obviously in a game like this you have to weigh what you can use effectively. If you see the enemy team has a bunch of players you recognize (which usually means you recognize them as a threat) and there is nothing on your side to reassure you have 2 options.

Use your best fits in an attempt to show your a force to be reckoned with. Odds being that your going to take a huge loss.

or

Use cheap gear and get kills where you can. Making nothing but gain having an otherwise terrible experience.

Now i'm not going to waste my good fits in a match where nothing is on the line. But if i don't want to be fighting an uphill battle for no reason either, I just leave. I just don't see the incentive for enduring that kind of punishment.

It's a logical decision based on economic principles.

Keep the faith.

Step 1. Copy frontline fit in dropsuit fittings
Step 2. Attach the basic "Assault rifle"
Step 3. Replace the stamina module with an armour plate
Step 4. Fit a nanohive or millitia Injector

Total should be well under 10k isk, more like 5k isk you can die 20 times and its 100isk. (I have never died 20 times no matter how good the opposing team is.)

Now you will have your "imma gettin pwned, but at least I can kill kittens fit"

The idea is compelling, but not the choice of gear!

Make it a scout, put focus on shield, equip him with a shotty. Step for is the only one I agree with! That basically is my main build, it is a little more expensive. But you can still die a lot without becoming broke.

It was just an example, I have a scout fit on a alt with the 'dragon fly' BPO, a basic sniper and BPO modules. Theres lots of different variants, the example I gave will give you good odds at all ranges where as if your running a scout with minimal skills you would be ALOT better off in a assault dropsuit (more hp) than a scout due to being extra squishy and at no real advantage.

If you have 2mil SP, invested in sheilds mechanics ect then a scout suit will do fine for a cheap alternative, but for anyone new to DUST (i assume you are as i haven't seen you around much) the fit I mentioned is a good cheap alternative.

As far as I understand, this thread is about players who leave battle as soon as they start to lose and try to find match where they can farm SP/ISK easily.
I personally use free Logi suite with AR, nanohive and nanite injector. I also have some more expensive experemental fitting and AV, DropUplink fitting.

However, I'd better use some more expensive fittings and try to win a battle, but I understand that if I do so I'll only end up loosing bunch of ISKs.

It was just an example, I have a scout fit on a alt with the 'dragon fly' BPO, a basic sniper and BPO modules. Theres lots of different variants, the example I gave will give you good odds at all ranges where as if your running a scout with minimal skills you would be ALOT better off in a assault dropsuit (more hp) than a scout due to being extra squishy and at no real advantage.

If you have 2mil SP, invested in sheilds mechanics ect then a scout suit will do fine for a cheap alternative, but for anyone new to DUST (i assume you are as i haven't seen you around much) the fit I mentioned is a good cheap alternative.

Moving away from the "cheap expendable fits" debate for a moment....

I think a lot of the problem here is the lack of anything worth fighting for. Right now we fight for a) the fun of it, b) ISK or c) SP, and none of these require you to stick around in a losing battle. In every battle there is a point where one side has to choose: fight on or surrender. In Dust right now fighting on costs you (ISK/AUR and your K/D stats), whereas surrendering (running away) costs nothing.

This should change as the game develops in line with its strategy.

OK, so your faction warfare team is losing the battle one the ground, but every minute you hold out allows the Eve pilots in space to consolidate their grip in the system, so you stick in there and fight to the last clone.

Ahh i didn't realise ou had that many skill points and with the point in case then you should be fine running around with a scout suit. The reason i mention advantages is due to play style, if your running around with a AR on a scout suit it will be terrible compared to a assault suit with no SP invested.

My next piece of advice would be to get your Scout dropsuit skills up, the ol saying 'You can't build a house on a poor foundation' comes to mind. I realise it's expensive but I have found I was surviving alot more.

Glad to see you have your sheild skills up already so good job there, Sharpshooter proficiency is my only reccomendation for shotguns.

If your going to be using expensive modules then use an expensive suit(4 or 5kisk more is nothing), no point trying to polish a turd (Tech 1 scout suit!!!) Also the dragonfly is basically identical to the Tech 1 so use that suit to reduce costs.

I think a lot of the problem here is the lack of anything worth fighting for. Right now we fight for a) the fun of it, b) ISK or c) SP, and none of these require you to stick around in a losing battle. In every battle there is a point where one side has to choose: fight on or surrender. In Dust right now fighting on costs you (ISK/AUR and your K/D stats), whereas surrendering (running away) costs nothing.

As one possible idea, I think you shouldn't be able to join another match while the match you left from is still ongoing (sign another contract with NCP corporation while the current one is still in effect). How do you think?

If you run away after losing a fitting that cost ISK, you still lose that fitting, and you don't get the ISK or SP reward at the end of the match.

If you stick around in Starter Fits or pure-BPO fittings, no matter how badly you perform with them, you make back some ISK and pick up some more SP to go with it (unless you're at/near the SP cap).

A large ISK loss is definitely a worse scenario than a smaller ISK loss, if you're playing for ISK. A small ISK loss is a MUCH worse scenario than a small ISK gain to that person. Earning no active SP at all is worse than earning some SP, if that's your goal.

As for losing a suit when you quit: that only applies if you quit while active, rather than quit after getting killed (you've lost the suit anyway in that scenario).