This will only get solved when PGI reaches out to the better teams in this game, and starts polling them for opinions and feedback and then
listening to it, trying some ideas, even if they aren't so sure they'll work - esp. if more than one is saying it.
People keep thinking they need to balance based on the opinion of the masses, but honestly, they will never understand what they're asking for fully - they just don't have the time and experience to understand the deeper values in the game.. and neither do the developers, thanks to emergent gameplay they cannot possibly anticipate.
There are a number of great teams out there (including SJR that spawned this discussion), and I think they would provide solutions and changes that would make
everyone happy in the end, or as least as many people as possible. Please take a look at the player run leagues, and talk to some of the better units within - and beware a handful of numerically popular but very poor teams out there at the moment. They're full of very bad misinformation.
Try some of what we're saying on the coming test server. See how it plays out. Listen to our feedback on the changes after it's been implemented.. we're not above making errors, but I'd like to think we can recognize them!
Anyway, I'm on a bit of a rant here but all I'm saying is
you can fix this, just get an email out to the teams that can help give you the feedback you need to do so.
EDIT: Please do not lump the hardcore or competitive players in with the people insisting on TableTop Is The Bible group. I love both Table Top and MechWarrior and the people I'm talking about want to see this the best
MechWarrior game to exist, and for that, the spirit of the property is more important than the numbers on a chart. Our interests are purely to help this game be a more diverse, deep experience on it's own merits. I really hate that sometimes those two groups get viewed at as the same.
Edited by Victor Morson, 08 July 2013 - 06:54 PM.