After ten years of Eve, CCP are probably quite experienced at ignoring forum tantrums. The real problem is it makes it very difficult to come to any kind of community consensus when valid points are being drowned in a constant stream of people furthering their own half-baked opinion on how the game should play for them.

I agree and support a "lone wolf" battle select option as mentioned in other threads.

I wouldn't mind a free for all fire fight game mode

I play solo exclusively (I don't even use a mic!) and I often get in the top ten in pretty basic gear. Just "stay with pack", that's often the key. Look for a clump of blue dots and just in the middle, they'll distract fire from you. When you'r low on health, fall back and let them cover you. Team mates really are helpful in this game, you should keep an eye out for them ;)

I have really tried the last few days to play solo in ambush, which is what I did a lot of the time in Chromosome and previous builds. I do enjoy playing in squads, but sometimes I just don't feel like talking or being married to a squad of players for the rest of the night. I liked being able to go on my own in ambush and just have a good time on my own terms, then join a squad when I felt like it. As a solo player I could blast my XMB in-game music, join any match, quit any match at will, go out for a quick smoke, or do whatever I wanted without answering to others.

Sadly with Uprising, playing solo (at least for me in ambush) is 100% out of the question. 99% of every match I join my team or the other team (other team is much more common) has 1-3 full squads of organized players running together. And it tips the match in their favor almost 100%. On my side random bluedots are few and far between, only time they are together is when they are mass blob spawning (due to mass blob slaughter), but they split up very quickly. On the other team is one giant blob of players mowing through the map, and seeing this blob (and if they see me) is pretty much a guaranteed death with little rewards.

Then to add insult to injury is the OB's. If it's not bad enough that I am getting slaughtered by the mass blob of organized squads, I get OB'ed as soon as I spawn from a recent 8 vs 1 death. Because players with 6 member squads can easily get an OB at least once a match, whereas solo players never get OB's (extremely rare).

Yes this game is all about teamwork and all that, but playing solo (at least for me) is nothing but extreme frustration, annoyance, and rage. I end my nights on a negative note, which is pretty much the exact opposite a game is supposed to provide for us (arent we supposed to play games to have fun, relieve stress and enjoy ourselves?)

Only time I can manage to have a decent game (stats wise) and have some fun, is while playing in a squad and being active on the mic. But other than that, I can't enjoy myself in the slightest playing solo. We absolutely need squadless options for gamemodes CCP, because this is ridiculous.

This, I could get behind. Too bad OP wasn't smart enough to come up with it first and was busy being butthurt about being outnumbered in a team based game.

Seen any cruisers that can beat a battleship lately?

...yeah!

(I don't play Eve and have no idea what that means.)