The game used to automatically assign everyone into squads.

Now you have squad-limited Uplinks, and if you're in no squad, EVERY other player without a squad can use your Uplnks.

In a squad, you get a maximum of 4 players able to use the spawn point you deployed, and one of them (you) earns you no points for doing so. When you're operating without a squad, you can have anything up to 16 (in a squad-free team) players able to spawn on your Uplink.

Who needs automatically made squads in the lobby? if you want a squad, make 1 and invite your friends. That simple. And to avoid that people join "my squad" i lock it and nobody is allowed to join except the people that i invite.

So you're saying: "No, because WP" ?
Perhaps then another suggestion is in order: Droplink variants. Squad based gets 75 WP per spawn and regular gets 10?

Fix'd

So you're saying: "No, because WP" ?
Perhaps then another suggestion is in order: Droplink variants. Squad based gets 75 WP per spawn and regular gets 10?

Fix'd

Instead of auto squads... Somebody in my corp mentioned this while we were waiting for somebody who was LFS. It would be cool if players could 'mark' themselves as looking for a squad via some setting and squad leaders could 'mark' themselves as looking for additional players in a squad and it would automatically add the people who are LFS to squads. It would further be better if it would automatically look for corp mates who are LFS, then alliance mates and then just random individuals - so you'll always be playing with people in your corp or alliance if at all possible.

Even if there was a whole separate menu for this (under social or battle?), I think it would be a great way to do it. This way people who are LFS will automatically get paired to a squad that is looking for additional players and people who want to stay solo are still able to stay solo.

No more "LFS" messages in chat, either!

As I understand it, the lack of autosquads is a testing mechanism for the devs.

There were some serious matchmaking issues and weird pairings under the old system, so hopefully they are using this time to improve the system.

Instead of auto squads... Somebody in my corp mentioned this while we were waiting for somebody who was LFS. It would be cool if players could 'mark' themselves as looking for a squad via some setting and squad leaders could 'mark' themselves as looking for additional players in a squad and it would automatically add the people who are LFS to squads. It would further be better if it would automatically look for corp mates who are LFS, then alliance mates and then just random individuals - so you'll always be playing with people in your corp or alliance if at all possible.

Even if there was a whole separate menu for this (under social or battle?), I think it would be a great way to do it. This way people who are LFS will automatically get paired to a squad that is looking for additional players and people who want to stay solo are still able to stay solo.

No more "LFS" messages in chat, either!

Now you have squad-limited Uplinks, and if you're in no squad, EVERY other player without a squad can use your Uplnks.

The only arguments I've heard in favour of the current system rely on getting WP from uplinks and having more people on team chat. If these are seriously the reasons this change was made, it's ridiculous and the wrong solution for these problems.

I hope that these people saying it's just CCP testing things temporarily are correct because it's stupid to expect people to work out how to form or join a squad when it's not at all obvious and they might know no one else playing.

To answer your question: everyone.

You personally can make your squad before a match and then join it, but for all the blues in the game it would be massively beneficial for them to be in squads.

More WP's are the most glaring advantage for the majority but the best advantage is that you might find people banding together more. I find that when I play in a squad I try and get to the teal coloured dot to help out and stick with them because you feel more of a bond in a small group.

@Rinon:

No, it doesn't really help the blues. The only advantage are the OBs - but as everyone, you included, knows that random blue sq leaders rarely realise they are sq leaders let alone use OBs.

Having all the randoms in one large 'no squad -squad' is a great help as you get to use everyone's uplinks. That really reduces random skirmish redlining as now more than 3 of teammates can use your breakaway link.


Which do you think benefits random teams more - having some juniors possibly get OB or let them use uplinks provided by at least one single user?

So you're saying: "No, because WP" ?
Perhaps then another suggestion is in order: Droplink variants. Squad based gets 75 WP per spawn and regular gets 10?

Fix'd

I'm still a little bemused by the uplinks thing because I am certain that I've been in squads before with no one putting down uplinks but I've been able to spawn on uplinks someone else must have put down.