gotta agree with kosty however on the leagues: 8v8 is not gonna happen there with our current population. organizing 8 ppl to play CtB is really not an easy task.
better chances with daily tournaments or something, as they are more popular in this regard.
Right and the moment squads are allowed back in Random PvP, those same Uber competitive squads will go into random PvP too.
And? Isn’t that a good thing?
It’s expectable to see hard enemies in the last tier of a game! Can play T4 just as much, its not like the mechanics differ!?
it really depends, on what you want to hear as a complaint.
and mixing the complaints together into one big fruit bowl makes no sense.
except you are not capable of keeping that big picture clear in your mind.
there is just no single reason i heard until now, which would tell me that squads in R15 is really a bad idea. but plenty of sidelining and excuses.
there are really reasons you brought up, why i accept, that squads throughout the whole rank system is maybe not a good idea, and yes, also removing T3 as the main place where people meet was maybe a good move, if we look into a future - but now I ask myself to what end, if there is no projected future.
the problem of your wannabe-prophecies is, that it basicly is fed by old myths. by historical problems, that the squads got blamed on, but in reality it was never that simple.
Maybe, its just the bad memories of early T5, when T4&T5 were one big queue, and basicly, that was the reason why T4 was dead forever? I could understand psychological trauma there, as the death squad era was scary, but again, it wasnt the squads, it was, that really old players basicly had fully purple R15 ships on day 1, while most others just entered T4, and the mixed tiers basicly kept everyone in T3.
read again: giving squads a MM disadvantage has caused Pro Squads to become so dominant. You dont believe it? learn evolutionary processes.
again: talking down squads as something uber, is what makes them so uber. Why protect “the solo player” throughout the game? As if you couldnt have fun solo besides a squad? As if the game is impossible like that? BS! Most of us play just as much solo as they squadded, and if the game decides, like yesterday, 4 of one corp in one team, its just a slaughterfest, and WE WERE NOT EVEN ON TS, we just got used to play with each other…
again: the reason why squads didnt work out was because they were not rewarded, and just blamed. because feedback of new players was mixed into feedback of agendas.
again: those people in those squads only got good, because they HAD THE OPPORTUNITY of learning the game in the high-life of daily multi-squad-T3-mayhem days in 2013, or just are so old, that they were already in closed alpha <= 2012.
again, what shalls, if t5 has squads and no one goes there as long as the squads are there?
whats the problem there?
its the endgame tier!
and if no squad comes to challenge them anyway, they just wait in queue!
I criticize the one-sidedness of how this gets handled. That everything is only done in extremes (no squads. or squads.). If you present the game like this:
"We are just a small team, f2p game. We are just a niche product, because space games dont sell so well, well except the top selling AA titles.
All players want to play this game and have fun. We dont want to make anyone cry. we want everybody to enjoy the game!
Our game is based on teamplay, and hardcore elements, like fitting and twitch-based action, but we don’t want to lose all the customers who just play casually.
we even dumbed down some parts of the game, that it really doesnt matter if you can play the game as long as you have fun, right!?
For the team players we created small gamemodes they could play if they were not so stubborn accepting that we try to be without a target audience, and only follow the principle of “i dont want to lose any one player”, even if this stupid mindset makes my game have really bad ratings, really bad player retention, while actually it’s still without a true competitor and basicly even the most critical voices praise it silently for having a good concept."
then you basicly deserve to not get respect.
But I also know, you have some secret enjoyment of polarization. So I keep feeding you.
Feel so trolled right now.