Mercy rule. If no one has taken a letter in "x" minutes. Game ends. Get out of the red line or the game is over.

This is the real fix. People aren't getting the actual problem here. The problem is that one team has beaten the other team so severely they're pushed back to their spawn. The game is, for all intents and purposes, over. One team has won, and the other team is being farmed. CCP needs to modify how Skirmish games work so that when such a state is reached, the game rapidly draws to a close, and people get to move on to a game which is hopefully better balanced and thus fun to play.

My .02 ISK on redlining, which seems to be what this topic veered off toward. I thought the OP was about abusing the redzone. My idea on that topic is to get rid of passive SP altogether, since the skill system is so fair and diagonal in terms of progression.

Anyway, on redlining, one idea is to have each team's territory covered on the radar in dashed light blue lines for their members to ensure that players know where they are relatively safe, or at least in their base territory. They won't rush out of it when redlining is occurring... maybe...

A second idea is to have another game mode, Destruction (or Annihilation), where the opposing MCC must be destroyed at all costs. When all null cannons have been hacked by one side for some time (typically the other side will be redlined), the opposing MCC attempts to retreat (I don't know if this breaks lore though, because I do not know the range of the null cannons) so the succeeding team must board the MCC. If they lose this match, they have a respawn penalty so the other team gets time to shape up, get a better position, and take over installations (Don't know why in the lore, but it'd help the team). This does not fix a bad team, so it's just an idea for a game mode having to do with redlining.

I thought the game mode, considering it's name, makes sense, since Ambush has players ambushing due to the "cruddy" respawn system, skirmish has players attempting to blow up the enemy's MCC but they aren't intent on destroying it at all costs even if it's retreating, and Destruction/Annihilation has the players attempting to destroy the enemy's MCC at all costs. Skirmish could also be updated to have the enemy MCC retreat some time after all null cannons have been hacked, so there's three separate win conditions: deplete clone reserves, blow up enemy MCC, or make enemy MCC retreat by hacking all null cannons.


Should this thread be in Feedback/Requests?