First off, I would like the thank everyone who has responded thus far, and to address some of the things that have been mentioned, feel free to read it all, or just that dedicated to you if you are mentioned.
@insaiity While my post was sparked by one specific instance of teaming, I have encountered many variations I would consider to be unfair. The instance in question had two ships sail over to my crew and anchor us, park their ships out of cannon range of us, and begin to spawn camp us together. so with ''Were the other boats ankered at a fort or at smugglers bay or lone cove? If yes then they were porbably tdm'ing each other and weren't bothering you at all until you came and cannoned their ships.'' this wasn't the case, the intent on their end was to keep our ship up to grind kills, they were not TDming and they came at us directly.
@One-Eyed-Curly Voting for new opponents next round is in the same boat is in my eyes the same problem as scuttling which I will talk about later, it means others will face the problem next round, its not a fix, its a bypass. Trashtalking them most likely won't do anything as its not like any amount of arguing makes people stop if they are trying to get commendations, even if you are polite about it. No amount of 'get gud' solves the problem of unfairness in this sense, incredibly skilled players would face the same problem unless they team up with another ship to even it out. ''If all else fails report them'' this is the entire reason I made this post, I want to know if its okay to report people that ruin the arena experience for others in this way, both from the eyes of other players as well as an official response from Rare. If teaming is not a reportable offence then reporting them does nothing.
@AhlaHumus @Galactic-Geek @One-Eyed-Curly I personally don't find scuttling to be a fix to this specific scenario. I do believe scuttling is a good fix to other scenarios such as being spawn camped if your team is unable to recover from it, however if the problem is that you are fighting against a team with an unfair advantage, having to take the cowards way out doesn't fix the issue. Scuttling against being spawn camped by a singular team just means that you couldn't fight against players that are playing fairly, nothing is wrong with what they are doing, you might not aren't able to compete them, and that's fine. Scuttling against players that are what I would refer to as breaking the rules just means they will do the same thing to other players, which is why I refer scuttling in this situation to be a bypass, not a fix. It means I don't have to deal with it, but others do, be that other ships in the same game, or other ships in games in the future. If teaming in this way is officially considered to be rule breaking, then you can compare the situation to fighting a team of hackers. Sure you can scuttle your ship or disconnect to get away from them, but it means other people have to deal with it. of course this is currently a different situation then going against hackers as its not officially against the rules to team like this, which is why this post is here, to get community feedback as well as a Rare response. Scuttling also sometimes isn't an option for some crews at all if they are playing open crew and not enough of their team agrees to scuttle, or because some of them don't communicate or don't know what/how to scuttle. Its not a fix, its a bypass, and a poor one at that.
Take a look at https://imgur.com/a/WRZYiR3 this is the sort of situation that I deem unfair and should not be allowed, they aren't TDMing, we didn't hassle them to cause this, its simply two ships to came at a third ship with the intent to keep them alive to farm commendations, and not to TDM. This could be two ships that happened to form a truce, or even could be a group of 8 people who continuously searched matches until they got into a game together. And before you say they were just getting a screenshot, before this they were on our ship for about 5 minutes just walking around killing, and then they stayed at the top for about 3 minutes instantly shooting anyone who came up the stairs, the only way to prevent that of course being blunder bombs, as with 7 people up there and at least one gun per person, its incredibly unlikely you don't die immediately.
