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[wanderer]

Hey PGI: You added in the Clan factions.

You had another laaaaaaaame Factional Tournaments where the uber simply picked small factions for e-z prizes, splitting up the MC dosh between them.

The real warfare is waiting right here in this topic. Get it on.

[Darth Futuza]

Me like.

wanderer, on 27 February 2014 - 08:43 AM, said:

Or get massacred by the Davion hordes and their merchant-girl allies by marriage. Whatever!

Our daughters do no such thing.

[IraqiWalker]

I like this idea. Sounds like a fun day, and it would give us in the fedcom a reason to break out our regulation issued cockpit tea makers, for some serious fighting.

[Stoneblade]

I think this topic deserves a bump. Really want to test the new MM system, Try this then.

[a gaijin]

wanderer, on 27 February 2014 - 05:07 AM, said:

We already know the matchmaker is capable of sorting by faction. Let's give people a reason for those faction tags before a full CW system is implemented.

Let's have ourselves a Simple Little War Day. Here's how it works:

Eliminate ELO sorting for one day- and groups will be sorted/scored in by the majority faction in their group. The server will pick teams by taking all available groups of a faction, then single members of a given faction, then adding Lone Wolf players to fill in any gaps.

Pew pew shall occur for a 24-hour period. Winning a match will be tallied for the faction you played for, regardless of LW or factional status, and the number of matches you won for a faction will also be tallied.

At the end of said Simple Little War, the faction with the most wins shall receive a day's worth of premium time for players that have the majority of their match wins for said faction- which will mean people with the appropriate faction tags generally, and lone wolf minions as well. The stats for said Simple Little War shall be published afterwards for all to see how much effort their faction put into giant robot stompings.

And bragging rights, of course. At least till next week. The losers shall only know shame and the heaping of ridicule on those lower than them in the standings as cold comforts while the victorious faction enjoys their day of bonus exp and C-bills for superior robot mashing skills.

I would, of course apologize that the Confederation would win such a contest for months in a row, but that would imply it needed apologizing for. Ha!

Spoiler

Kidding on that last part, but it'd get people in the right frame of mind for a more complex CW when the time comes.

Great idea BUT ONLY IF:
all pilots must only pilot their faction specific mechs!

If so then that's a faction specific game mode done right.

Yes that's right: only Capellans get the good ECM ravens, Steiners in their DDCs of course, etc.
You all know what I mean.

If you't don't know what I mean just take a look at the recent Faction Specific Sales and you'll learn which mechs go with which factions.

[IraqiWalker]

HeroForHire, on 22 September 2014 - 07:40 PM, said:

Great idea BUT ONLY IF:
all pilots must only pilot their faction specific mechs!

If so then that's a faction specific game mode done right.

Yes that's right: only Capellans get the good ECM ravens, Steiners in their DDCs of course, etc.
You all know what I mean.

If you't don't know what I mean just take a look at the recent Faction Specific Sales and you'll learn which mechs go with which factions.

With a slight problem. No single chassis was exclusive to any one faction (except in rare cases, like JM6s not being very common in the FWL.). So even those ECM ravens are gonna be found on Davion lines.

[a gaijin]

IraqiWalker, on 22 September 2014 - 07:49 PM, said:

No single chassis was exclusive to any one faction (except in rare cases, like JM6s not being very common in the FWL.). So even those ECM ravens are gonna be found on Davion lines.

Not so true. Though (to use your example) Davion has some Ravens, they are rare.
For the purpose any Faction specific events (and coming CW), everyone should be only given the option to use their faction related mechs.
Anyone who wants to use "any frakkin mech they please" can just pug drop open public games.

See, no problem

There's a post I saw (wish I could find it now and link it) that gave the breakdown with percentages on mech chassis usage per House. But anyhow Sarna is a great reference if you don't have the TROs handy.



Edited for misspelling 'Faction' as action. I'm a terrible typist lately

Edited by HeroForHire, 23 September 2014 - 02:18 PM.