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[Sephlock]

Sephlock Value™.

At the top would be Assault mechs, then Heavy Mechs, then Medium Mechs, then all Light mechs aside from Locusts, then Trial mechs, then Locusts.

Trial Locusts would flat out not be allowed in matchmaking. At all.

For them, it's training grounds or bust.

This would allow for less ROFLSTOMP matches and more fun.

Apologies to the two dozen guys who can actually pilot a Locust, but even then, no match needs six of you.

I'll leave it to cooler heads to decide how many Locusts = one trial mech.

[Wintersdark]

Locusts are cool mechs and tons of fun, but yeah, when a team has a lot of them things go badly. Particularly when the other team has a couple Kintaros or streakhawks.

Locust parts get splattered all over the battlefield in short order.

[Vexidious]

Yeah, if you are piloting a Locust and aren't ridiculously good, then you are letting your team down.

[Caladus]

While I haven't been in a match with half a team of Locusts I have seen a crapton being fielded.

Makes sense. It's shiny and new. It should die down a bit when players get bored of being stepped on by 'Light Killer' builds.

[Sephlock]

Caladus, on 19 October 2013 - 08:25 PM, said:

While I haven't been in a match with half a team of Locusts I have seen a crapton being fielded.

Makes sense. It's shiny and new. It should die down a bit when players get bored of being stepped on by 'Light Killer' builds.

I was wondering, since I've been splitting my time between several things at the moment, if I should prioritize grinding my Locusts now, on the theory that if I leave it till later, the field will be flooded with non-locusts, which will make it harder to grind them then.

[Roughneck45]

Mech type ELO would help this.

Why no matchamker, my jenner ELO should not be my locust ELO.

[Charons Little Helper]

This won't be needed once weight limits are in.

Frankly - while some people can do well in a locust, anyone that can could do better in something else.

Locust may become playable once two things happen.

1. Weight limits
2. Spotting becomes more useful & rewarded

Once both of those things happen - locust will fill a niche as the lightest spotter. Want to be a spotter and use the smallest amount of your team's resources possible? Pilot a locust. Though even then - one could argue it'd be worth 5 more tons to get an ECM on your spotter.

Edited by Charons Little Helper, 26 October 2013 - 07:20 AM.