Usually the jump from tier 2 to tier 3 is hard because you went from a rank 6 full synergy ship, which is top of the line in tier 2, to a stock tier 3, without even green modules.
And that sucks. No matter how good you are.
But you will get more credits, you will level up your ships, and you will be able to fight toe to toe with almost anyone. In case you get 3 or 4 men squads in the enemy team, try to stick to your team and don’t YOLO.
Yes it’s more than “you farm me, i leave”, but that’s one of the reasons. Atm t3 is a nubzone where skilled players goes for easy matches (or more understandble reason: lack of people in higher contents ok). Most of the guys going down there wants just an easy win, and they are doing that against people that hardly understand basics game mechanics.
They don’t want fair matches or good fights, as i told you in pvt: notice that most of those kill squads when start to find equal opponents will leave the que as soon they loose a match. This is farming man.
And this is one of the reason people leave.
If I want an easy win, I will pick tier 2 or tier 4 before tier 3. Just saying.