The answer is free tanks to the team that has been red lined.

Lag issues aside, there is something fundamentally wrong with this game mode.

- Its just not that tactical in Pub matches, especially on the bigger maps. Most games we just chase each other around in circles, hacking and moving on, its rare that someone actually defend the objectives. It lacks progression, as we had in the first build. This however I believe will be fixed in the form of more game modes to come.

So what is the major problem?

- I reckon that about 80% of the games I play end up as redline matches after just a couple of minutes. One team stomp the other, there's nothing new about that. The problem is to sit at the redline for 10 or so minutes fighting snipers, and just occationally fall back with 10 guys to stop the one single enemy that managed to sneak past and hack something. Way too many of the games I play are simply very boring.

Sollution?

- Make the damage the turrets do towards the MCC gain serious momentum if a team holds ALL the letters at the same time. At least make it double, more would be better.

This will shorten the one sided battles, this is good for both the guys that sit bored on the redline and the guys that get mowed down as soon as they even get close to it. We will most likely see less rage quitting and the poor stomped ones can more easily bite their teeths and stick with the battle until it ends.

Its not a map issue, its a game mode issue.

Even if separated into single player games and group player games one team can certainly be stomped hard in any case.

My sollution makes sence, as you can call it a "multiple beam fire bonus" or whatever.

Giving free tanks is obvioulsy silly and lining the redline with blasters will promote even more camping, the games will be just as boring.

Lag issues aside, there is something fundamentally wrong with this game mode.

- Its just not that tactical in Pub matches, especially on the bigger maps. Most games we just chase each other around in circles, hacking and moving on, its rare that someone actually defend the objectives. It lacks progression, as we had in the first build. This however I believe will be fixed in the form of more game modes to come.

So what is the major problem?

- I reckon that about 80% of the games I play end up as redline matches after just a couple of minutes. One team stomp the other, there's nothing new about that. The problem is to sit at the redline for 10 or so minutes fighting snipers, and just occationally fall back with 10 guys to stop the one single enemy that managed to sneak past and hack something. Way too many of the games I play are simply very boring.

Sollution?

- Make the damage the turrets do towards the MCC gain serious momentum if a team holds ALL the letters at the same time. At least make it double, more would be better.

This will shorten the one sided battles, this is good for both the guys that sit bored on the redline and the guys that get mowed down as soon as they even get close to it. We will most likely see less rage quitting and the poor stomped ones can more easily bite their teeths and stick with the battle until it ends.

The reason for unbalanced games is that the matchmaking system doesn't work as indented. With increase in player since open beta has started, devs should clearly see this and hopefully plan to fix somehow.

In my opinion, it's isn't possible to calculate player's skill because player's performance can differ based on fitting used. I think we need several manually selected difficulty level for each game mode with benefits for playing in higher difficulty level and drawback to play lower difficulty levels with high cost fittings.

Except that's against the single shard experience. Every possibility to choose a difficulty, or to separate the player base according to specific tier of weapons\armor chosen by the players themselves etc... is a bad idea.

A better solution would be to have a kind of standing thingy. Or a "merc reputation" stat. Something equivalent but not especially linked to one faction.

According to that merc reputation, you'd get access to different levels of NPC contratcs, just like in eve. The higher the contract, the higher the ISK multiplier. Thus, the higher the merc reputation, the higher the skill of the players are. Those "high reputation" merc could still play lower rewarding contracts but they should be drawn to the higher reward. Or play lower battles with lower grade equipment.

Sole problem with that is that low rep mercs could end up in very empty fights and struggle to gain access to the higher contratcs.

Maybe PVE could raise that merc rep as well.

Anyway, just thoughts.

I don't suggest to make matchmaking based on fittings you have. What I want is some kind of option to select match where you know rewards (ISKs, salvage) is better and hence players have better fittings and you can test you skill there.

did u read my post?
i know its a game mode issue
i said that in my post
i suggested u make it more like BF2142 titan mode instead of skirmish 2.0 being a half assed version of it.
when shields are depleted the team can then board the MCC and blow it up from the inside if they choose too and can end the game quickly

or on the flip side a team can be losing badly on their last few ticks on MCC armor and the enemy team could just now lose their shields......seeing this the losing team makes a last gasp attempt to board the MCC and claim a win from the jaws of defeat

it adds intensity, it gives installations a PURPOSE and controlling them a reason so ppl wont just blow them up for Free WPs since u might need to shoot down some dropships

Your suggestion of just increasing the dmg done when all null cannons are captured is still boring and doesnt add that spice and excitement to it

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do what I and several others have suggested and alter the WP awards for actions taken into or out of the redline (in short remove them so that spawn camping the redline isn't a rewarded tactic and we'll start to get more blue dots who know not the make the match tedious by hacking every single enemy spawn point.)