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Usually I don't do this kind of "Let me correct you at every point of your post because we possibly can't agree on anything" kind of stuff but I think it's appropriate here:
So basically people think that without those criteria listed, you can still win and crush players? This is actually quite hilarious. If players are randomly split those criteria still applies on what will decide a victory. And because of those criteria it won't be balanced at all.
You can still win the game and kill people even if your gear sucks and when you have no idea what you are doing because the other team might have players like yourself that you can kill and you might get carried by the rest of your team to win it all. Now it's all about the odds here: this can still happen with the current bsq, but the chance of it happening are much better with a random team.
I would love to see any one of you guys without gear, communication, garbage composition of classes to demolish fully stacked players with communication and great composition that aren't mentally handicapped at playing there own class.
This has nothing to do with any of that. It's about trying to distribute those geared, skilled players evenly with the other players in to these 2 teams. The people with good gear, communication and understanding of pvp/bsq mechanics will still have their overwhelming advantage over somebody who does not, but the match has a better chance of being even remotely close. And this is important: when the match is close even with absolutely no gear you can as an individual player end up deciding the game by landing that decisive stun that lets your team get a hold of the flags at the end of the game. When the match is even everybody has a chance to contribute.
If you take a generic moba like league of legends where 5 players can queue up together sure, totally random. If you don't pick the proper roles aka team composition, the likelihood of you winning is most likely lower because that's the definition of the meta which no one apparently gets. If you take a genre like a moba stacked vs unstacked.... oh wait no such thing but If they had it I'm sure it would be balanced.Apparently if you suck at the game and go against skilled players that's totally fair too.
It's not a perfect analogy I know, and I already pointed out that we couldn't have a match making system that accounted for gear, skill and class because of the relatively small community. But the point is, again, preventing the other team from having that all stars team comp.
Anyways I see more dead battle squares than active ones. I wonder why the entire population doesn't bother to join in and play fairly when those certain group of players aren't on? Think about it. It's a playing ground anyone can join when no one isn't there, but it's full 90% of the time only when players are sided with friends in the first place. It just baffles be on why it's only full when groups are together yet when none of those players are on I don't see a bunch of "noobs" like the original post said playing together with no one to interrupt them?
Well imagine you are a player trying out bsq. You get in, it's a one sided crush fest where you can't do anything, or it's a match with 4 players on either side none of which you can touch. Would you come back again? Also with random teams maybe there could be an actual incentive to doing bsq, some actual reward. I like the to see the even 15v15 salt filled bsq's with guilds or groups of friends trying to assert their dominance as much as the next guy but as you said, those are few and far between.
Mind you I don't think random matchmaking for bsq alone would make it more or less active, I do just agree that it would be a better system overall. What I'm not sure about if it'd be a good idea to spend energy making something like this.
