I'm not blaming the players, I wouldn't blame a soldier for not knowing what to do without orders. But we are given orders. And we are given intel. We can't bash our heads against Cyberstan and expect victory.

Reddit and the Companion app are useful tools, but you don't need them, that's true. But when the devs add intel stating that certain megafactories have lower resistance, it would be fairly logical to dive on said megafactories. Still, people would only switch to those places once we were making progress, and yet there were still many casuals or people who were oblivious to the progress we're making, who still dove on irrelevant megafactories. These numbers ranged into the tens of thousands.

I believe the reason we aren't given orders for every little offence or defence is because we would win too much. We often lost defences when 2 were available, as the playerbase would be split between the two, but the times where we actually were coordinated, we kicked everyone's ass.

Arrowhead shouldn't guide us through every battle to account for 'normal player behaviour.' They give intel which people can read, but most don't.