Rebas Kradd, on 03 February 2014 - 02:12 PM, said:
This guide isn't about working around exploits. My point is that a lot of imbalance in MWO right now is being created by bad decision-making. People get impatient and run off on their own. People get greedy/freaked out and run after the Jenner. THESE are what creates stomps. My guide exists as an experiment to see how many stomps can be prevented by teaching the community to play smarter.
I like the advice, but don't buy that better piloting leads to better balance (But then I don't think MWO is show-stoppingly unbalanced anyway).
There will always (I hope) be plenty of new players in pug queue who won't be following your advice and it only takes a couple of them to be on one side to potentially throw the match into a stomp.
In my experience, worse stomps are more common in group queue, where in most cases I'd say players are following your points. When it happens, I don't attribute it to holy-trinity-meta-ra-derp-blah. It's normally just that the other team includes a less casual unit with more skill.