I kind of got that

You're proud of that ? It's no wonder GSF is so unpopular and why people in general have such a low opinion of gamers. And BTW I am shocked really shocked, and not at all like this that a team of 4 was able to make someone miserable. I suppose this was one of the difficult targets you like to go after. What's really amazing isn't that you apparently don't feel shame, (It's kind of like the occasional idiots that videotape themselves committing crimes), but you actually feel this somehow makes you look good.

So historians are the winners ?

LOL and some people will do anything and then make excuses why it was right, others understand the difference between right and wrong.

They are old ideas that may have left the world. Really I find Verrain's comments much like asking why doesn't my America's cup yacht have torpedo launchers and Harpoon missiles to better win the race, surely if you can afford the yacht you can afford some ordnance ?

VS I allready play lowbies. Why don't you do that and play against a double premade for 10-20 matches in a row I think everyone reading this got the idea you don't care about fair play, sportsmanship or even the game doing well. LOL Remove teamwork ? So you can't have teamwork unless you have better communications than the people you are playing against ? Hell why not let the catcher text the pitch to the pitcher in baseball. This ^^^^ I used to queue in groups when I was still Pot5 and Black Squadron and the burgers were doing their damnedest to kill the game on that server. But really wheres the joy in fights that you will always be turning into a N on 1 focus.

So good pilots are only good when they group together ? Yes because having voice chat when the people you play against don't is just so fair. The only person whining here seems to be you.

The only reason you say that is you think the solo queuers would overwhelmingly opt for it and think it worth the extra wait time to have a good match. HMMMM. OH BTW, it's really fun watching people insist they deserve an advantage that harms the game overall. The knowledge that my opinion of humanity is correct always brings a smile to my face.

I would be happy to just have an option not to be placed in matches with groups when queuing solo.

Not reflecting on you, but somehow I see so many people say that but never actually see it happen.

Really it only seems to be bad scout pilots that get upset about it.

Well it certainly is now, but it wasn't always. I play on a few servers and I see the same kinds of situation happening on them that happened on Pot5.

Speaking of not adding to the discussion. Really what I keep seeing from the people who are happy about this is like it or lump it. It's almost as if you want it to fail while you are still playing it. Me I wouldn't mind coming back to it, if EA can get its act together (not holding my breath there) And BTW, it really doesn't matter what you or anyone else thought interdiction was meant to do, people spent time and effort to get the gear based on the description. EA can either respect that fact or not.

Nahh I am already looking for other games, and as soon as something is there I am outta here. hoping game companies have an epiphany to do the right thing, is just foolish.

I moved off this server awhile back. Just came back to test the hypothesis. It's chicken and egg. People get bad games over and over again they don't want to queue, the queue becomes this mess of garbage. Someone posted the worst score ever thread just recently. Everyone can laugh that off once in awhile, from what I saw that is the kind of thing that is going on Pot5 all day long.

My own feeling , and I only present as a feeling is that they just had larger populations to begin with.

I haven't said one word about intended function and as far as I am concerned that's the purview of psychics. As to not refunding before so they shouldn't do it now, that's just a great way to tick off players that already are feeling the problems in this game.

That really seems to be a problem with strike fighters in general. The devs seem to consistently undervalue mobility.

The original thread was about how match volume was sufficient that the matchmaker could actually try and balance matches. This thread is to present data on the proposition that removing particular people from a server will cause the community to regenerate. In the case of Pot5 the dominant premades of "ACES" that were dominating matches left for other servers. What I see in this data is that the community on Pot5 has not regenerated and the conditions that SEEMED to drive people away are still doing so.

Sure it is, GM sells it's cars with electronic governors installed. All it takes is them deciding you didn't pay enough for the car you bought. What software updates happen all the time ? The entire argument about should shouldn't have known is complete BS. I can see people going OH THOSE DAMN BOMBER PILOT SCRUBS ARE GOING TO SCREWED NOW HEHEHEHE. Enjoy that moment and remember it when your queue doesn't pop because they just got tired of what anyone can see is complete B.S.

Awhile back I did a thread about what the scene was like on Prophecy of the five. So comparing the information from that sample to the current scene should provide a little insight into the validity of the idea that the damage done by really bad matches gets undone. Here's what the scene was like today 1st column is when I would Q, second column is when the Q would pop, third and fourth columns are notes about the match. 5/14/2014 13:07 14:02 Blow out loss 3 people left before end 14:13 15:51 Blow out loss 2 people left before end 16:03 16:05 Blow out win 16:16 17:16 blow out loss spawn camped in domination 17:27 17:30 Blow out loss VS a month ago 4/2/2014 1:27 1:31 1:45 1:58 2:11 2:21 2:47 2:55 3:09 3:11 3:22 3:26 3:40 3:49 3:59 4:01 4:12 4:30 4:42 4:50 5:05 5:06 Observations: GSF is still producing horrific matches The match creation rate is less than half what it was a month ago. You can draw your own conclusions about why this is happening, mine are pretty simple most people don't like queuing to fight horribly lopsided matches for small rewards. Another is that it would be better to wait a little longer for good matches, that bring people back then create bad matches that drive them away.

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Look let me put it to you like this. You buy a Ferrari and a month after you have it a virus in the engine control computer puts a governor in that limits its max speed to 20mph. The manufacturer tells you, it was never meant to go fast just look good. At that point anyone would feel you were justified in wanting your money back. It's the same thing here. Nobody knows how these things should work. The only thing you can go on is how they work when you pay for them and the description of how they work.

Really this this this. I can't count the number of matches where I have had veins throbbing in my forehead because I am the only person on my side bothering to fight the gunships.

Friends of mine left this game for ESO. I really wasn't interested in switching for a variety of reasons. The game first and foremost didn't grab me, second the guy designing their combat/ability system was a painful idiot. He used to be the powers guy for City of Heroes and managed to destroy the pet class in that game over and over again, managed to make one of 2 endgame raids unplayable, and for 5 years had the ranged DPS class produce the worst DPS in the game and have the least survivability. So I stayed here telling my friends, I really didn't want to put effort into building characters or gaining items that were going to have half lives measured in minutes. Low and behold I keep hearing from friends that play ESO how they have to keep switching things around and every patch redefines what they can and need to do. I have no trouble with bioware redefining how the mines should work. I don't agree it's a good thing, as things stand just about any ship can take out a bomber on a satellite if they just aren't so stupid as to charge into the mines. Where I do have trouble is when they go hey it's only 30-50 fights you need to do again to get back to where you were. If I wanted to play in quicksand I could have gone to ESO.