DUST Search - Faction Warfare.. What a load of..

Orin the Freak wrote:

I'm just going to throw this out there, if you're queuing for FW battles without at least 6 people, preferably more, then you are most certainly doing it wrong, and it's no wonder you hate it.

But let me tell you this, by solo or small group queuing for FW, you are not only ensuring you have a crappy time, but you are also making it boring for people who are looking for a real fight, only to find an enemy team full of randoms.

If you want to improve FW, it starts with you. Group up, queue sync, be real. We were rolling 12-16 deep all day yesterday, and were undefeated, even when we went 11 of us vs. 13 of .. well, I'll keep their identity secret for their sake, but we absolutely decimated them.

C'mon people. Bring your big boy pants. These aren't your average pub matches. If you're worried about your silly precious "rewards" or whatever, go play pub matches. CCP set FW up as a nice middleground, where, if you work at it, you can stack your team. The best way I can describe it is, "semi-public" matches. this is where you go to stack your team and try out your teamwork.

Not to onesy-twosie/AFK. Nothing wrong with playing that way, just not in Faction Warfare matches. Especially not if you actually expect to win :P

But hey, it's your sandbox just as much as it is anyone elses. Do whatever tickles your dangly bits.


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Vrain Matari ZionTCD Unclaimed. 523	Posted - 2013.05.15 12:45:00 - [1] - Quote Orin the Freak wrote: I'm just going to throw this out there, if you're queuing for FW battles without at least 6 people, preferably more, then you are most certainly doing it wrong, and it's no wonder you hate it. But let me tell you this, by solo or small group queuing for FW, you are not only ensuring you have a crappy time, but you are also making it boring for people who are looking for a real fight, only to find an enemy team full of randoms. If you want to improve FW, it starts with you. Group up, queue sync, be real. We were rolling 12-16 deep all day yesterday, and were undefeated, even when we went 11 of us vs. 13 of .. well, I'll keep their identity secret for their sake, but we absolutely decimated them. C'mon people. Bring your big boy pants. These aren't your average pub matches. If you're worried about your silly precious "rewards" or whatever, go play pub matches. CCP set FW up as a nice middleground, where, if you work at it, you can stack your team. The best way I can describe it is, "semi-public" matches. this is where you go to stack your team and try out your teamwork. Not to onesy-twosie/AFK. Nothing wrong with playing that way, just not in Faction Warfare matches. Especially not if you actually expect to win :P But hey, it's your sandbox just as much as it is anyone elses. Do whatever tickles your dangly bits. All good points Orin. But the peeps going solo in FW battles prolly don't read the forums, and probably are picking the matches almost at random. Maybe they're just 'trying it out' and why shouldn't they? There's no real information in-game explaining what the hell these merc tab battle things are anyway. Maybe they're trying it out to see if there's different maps, etc. You can't blame the peeps, but it is a problem. In the long run I'm thinking(and hoping) that what fixes the problem will be player or corp or alliance issued contracts. And I'm hoping that the contract system has enough depth to handle this situation well. In the short term i don't see any easy solution. And from this point forward DUST is going to be picking up new players at a pretty steady clip(prolly a flood in a few months), so the number of clueless peeps checking out merc battles will be a fairly healthy number.
Vrain Matari ZionTCD Unclaimed. 523	Posted - 2013.05.15 16:08:00 - [2] - Quote We don't need loyalty points. All we need is access to a faction stores that sell cool faction stuff to faction mercs - for good ol' ISK. Only question is how do we control/grant access to the faction stores?