Quote Originally Posted by Scintilla View Post

I personally play FL with friends (though rather than coordinate, we tend to compete with each other instead), but there are many who play solo. Having a large premade party should never be a pre-requisite to playing FLs without being repeatedly destroyed every game with ridiculous score differences. A reality of 'If you want to win, you have to have your own premade team, otherwise it's a guaranteed loss' is only going to push more players away from FLs. We aren't at that point at the moment (and I hope we never will be), but it's not a good outcome.

This is the critical point! And in addition to turning away new players completely, there's another insidious consequence that serious players should care about deeply. We hear the complaint that there's a population of players wandering around aimlessly in FL just farming the daily XP. Maybe if matches involving premades weren't such rookie slaughterhouses, those players would enjoy the mode and be interested enough to improve their skills?