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Ningyo, on 12 June 2013 - 07:02 PM, said:
Adding a stock mech mode would be great as it would make a large section of the player base that want to play stock mechs happy, AND it would give all new players somewhere they can play on a reasonably even playing field. Good for when other players buy a new mech too.
On the other hand adding 10 new modes would massively impact the pools each one draws from making finding a match nearly impossible. They are right to not dilute it too much by adding absurd numbers of modes.
I think Stock, and a test mode is all they should add for now (stock could even be the first test mode). And they could change the test mode every couple weeks to some new settings to test how the community feels about it. They could have a time of adding heat penalties, or collisions, or removed/modified convergence. If they got good feedback they could tweak it and try it in the regular modes afterwards.
As it seems unlikely they will have every facet of the game perfected by launch, this would be very strongly needed then too.
On the other hand adding 10 new modes would massively impact the pools each one draws from making finding a match nearly impossible. They are right to not dilute it too much by adding absurd numbers of modes.
I think Stock, and a test mode is all they should add for now (stock could even be the first test mode). And they could change the test mode every couple weeks to some new settings to test how the community feels about it. They could have a time of adding heat penalties, or collisions, or removed/modified convergence. If they got good feedback they could tweak it and try it in the regular modes afterwards.
As it seems unlikely they will have every facet of the game perfected by launch, this would be very strongly needed then too.
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