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[redlance]

i could understand a monday night, but a saturday night? that feel when no one wants to 8 man any more.

this sucks.

[BaconFat]

bah...no matter...games so buggy atm and loaded w/game lag of late surprised anyones even playing at all.

[matux]

Been like that for ages for anyone in the +10GMT 1 or 2 other groups during prime time on a sat if lucky.

[Little Nemo]

We see it the other way. People want to socialize on weekends, so we practice on weekdays and Sunday.

[BoydofZINJ]

when you do 8 mans... you face all assaults in "assault mode" and all lights in "conquest mode"... WHATz the point

[Skadi]

2 words.... Solo, Event

[Little Nemo]

Boydsan, on 20 April 2013 - 10:18 PM, said:

when you do 8 mans... you face all assaults in "assault mode" and all lights in "conquest mode"... WHATz the point

No you don't. You must not do 8-mans.

[Peiper]

LOBBIES

[BoydofZINJ]

As i mentioned before, I know this weekend is Assaults VS the WORLD and a new Highlander mech appeared...

but even before this... it was all

8 mans... BEFORE this weekend was mostly Assaults... heavies were the "lights" UNLESS you go conquer then its mostly lights... so MWO = 2 modes GBoGH or GLaGCFLP

GBoGH = Go Big or Go Home.

GLaGCFLP = Go Light and Go Cap For Less Points.

[BoydofZINJ]

Skinny Pete, on 20 April 2013 - 10:26 PM, said:

No you don't. You must not do 8-mans.

Um then you dont do 8-mans, or when you do 8-mans it is not during Tuesday and Thursday about 8pm Central. I did 8-mans with Steiners on Friday night facing mostly all assaults. On Tuesday and Thursday the Black Hearts do 8-mans at about 8pm Central and we face mostly assaults. Sure we see an odd team of two of 6 assaults and 2 lights; but most of the time its mostly or all assaults. The 6 assaults and 2 lights is a mostly assaults, FYI.

We normally run two 8-man teams but our attendance has been... decreasing... and we are only able to normally field 1 full 8 man now.

Edited by Boydsan, 20 April 2013 - 10:37 PM.

[Kiiyor]

Tournament. Solo only.

[BoydofZINJ]

Kiiyor, on 20 April 2013 - 10:37 PM, said:

Tournament. Solo only.

hmmmm

Boydsan, on 20 April 2013 - 10:28 PM, said:

As i mentioned before, I know this weekend is Assaults VS the WORLD and a new Highlander mech appeared...

but even before this... it was all

8 mans... BEFORE this weekend was mostly Assaults... heavies were the "lights" UNLESS you go conquer then its mostly lights... so MWO = 2 modes GBoGH or GLaGCFLP

GBoGH = Go Big or Go Home.

GLaGCFLP = Go Light and Go Cap For Less Points.

answered.

[Profiteer]

redlance, on 20 April 2013 - 10:13 PM, said:

i could understand a monday night, but a saturday night? that feel when no one wants to 8 man any more.

this sucks.

Most people prefer to beat on pugs in 4-mans for quick: xp, c-bills, ego rub.

I probably one of them truth be told.

You don't get anything extra for 8-manning, and once you've done it a bit it gets old fast.

Wait around 20 mins for the team to come together.
Wait around 20 mins for people to 'tweak' builds and talk ****.
Wait around 20 mins while the match-maker "fails to find match".

No thanks.

[Johnny Reb]

Why 8 man when most are 1 man for the tourney?

[Tekadept]

You think its bad now,just wait till you are forced to find 11 other scrubs for 12man. Get 12 men or go pug stomp..hmmm..

Edited by Tekadept, 20 April 2013 - 11:48 PM.

[BoydofZINJ]

I am attempting an 8 man right now (saturay night/sunday morning at 2:20am CST).

First drop... FAILED to find someone. We saw that there was enough Steiners for another 8-man. So we had decided to get two 8-mans to synch man drop.

2nd drop we synch dropped with another Steiner group....

then we fell apart... we started too late. LOL

[Zylo]

Tekadept, on 20 April 2013 - 11:48 PM, said:

You think its bad now,just wait till you are forced to find 11 other scrubs for 12man. Get 12 men or go pug stomp..hmmm..

This is the unfortunate side effect of the 8-man groups being in their own match system. If groups were allowed to run at any size between 2-8 (later 2-12) with the condition that a similar size group exists on both teams it would allow for far more large group action.

This system would encourage corps to run a group as large as possible as many did in closed beta but unlike closed beta matchmaker it would match a group on each team. Some sort of min/max tonnage limit would probably be needed to prevent teams from going all assaults or all lights. These limits might be more acceptable to players if groups could be any size between 2 and 8.

[Devil Fox]

God it's going to be interesting to see 12 man assault blobs in 12 man matches, or the premade lances in pug games running all over the place...

At present is there really any benefit to 8man? It's mostly blobbing and target practice, will 3 separate lances change the meta game? No idea, but I don't think it's going to change much other then faster capping...

[Mazzyplz]

8 man should be replaced with 4+4.

and then with 4+4+4.

would solve issues with waiting a year for everybody.
just load up 4 peeps and let the game team you up with 4 more.


on top of that, remove pug vs 4 man. - just pug vs pug.
so teamplay goes in 1 queue and solo play in another.

[Zylo]

Mazzyplz, on 21 April 2013 - 12:00 AM, said:

8 man should be replaced with 4+4.

and then with 4+4+4.

would solve issues with waiting a year for everybody.
just load up 4 peeps and let the game team you up with 4 more.


on top of that, remove pug vs 4 man. - just pug vs pug.
so teamplay goes in 1 queue and solo play in another.

What happens with a group that has fewer than 4 players? Most of us don't have exactly 3, 7 or 11 other players available every time we want to drop.