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So I touched on this topic in another thread. But I wanted to give it a closer look and see what other thought.

For a long time now I have been unhappy with the match maker, I haven't enjoyed the group Q very much since getting back into the game. I have felt the pain of some other people that posted here feeling that small groups are getting the short end of the stick because often they end up filling 2-3 slots for a larger force or have a company made up up several smaller parties fighting a 12 man premade or close to it.

People keep expressing how they are trying to get people to get into the game but find it very daunting because of how steep the learning curve is in these matchs because you tend to face off against higher skill opponents with better mechs in the group Q.

I also see the comments like " join a unit " or " play solo " but my own feelings are this is counter productive to getting new players. A new player should not have to feel like they need to be a part of a large unit to have fun, they should be able to start the game run some trial mechs get a random lance mate that they click with and make a friend and drop with them. And the. That happens they should not have to buy them self a ticket to hard mode by default unless they quickly make at least 10 other friends. That notion is absurd, but like I said it's not the Match makers fault or I should say it's not all the match makers fault cause we all know it's not perfect by anymeans.

What I really think the problem is, teamwork, that's the problem, it's hard to have a bunch of random people or be the random people with a group of friends and work well together when your hands are tied by a lack of ability to talk to each other.

The solution seems very easy, and it's two things.

1) A in game VoIP system, it could be molded off the system used in BF2. Company commander can talk to the lance commanders and his own lance ( with two different channels ), lance commanders can talk to the company commander as well as their lance ( with two different channels) and lance mates can talk to each other ( via one channel ) sure a few trolls are going to flood the coms with BS from time to time, but a sim
2) a Com Rose, filled with useful commands that you can say quickly to get info out to your team with out the need for a mic, becaus