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Khobai, on 28 February 2014 - 10:24 AM, said:
Simply put:
1) mediums need stronger SRMs to give them a decent weapon with low tonnage requirements.
2) mediums need to be penalized less by engine weight. A 300 engine is only 25% of an assaults weight but its 50% of a mediums weight. mediums are penalized too heavily by the engine weight curve.
And the majority of players will continue playing heavies/assaults. This will result in longer queue times while waiting for mediums to join the game. The only way to get players to play mediums more is to make them better. Its quite simple really.
Which is most people. Medium pilots are the minority.
No need to make them "Better" this whole Buffing/nerfing stuff is not the answer!
Just give more incentives for the weight classes, want more Mediums in the game? Hand out Cbill boosts for playing Mediums.
In an Ideal World, create a "Class X hour!"
Where the least played weight class gets an Bonus to Cbills earned, update it dynamicalyon an hourly base, hand the information in the Mech bay, and there you go.
Vets which dont need Cbills, because they are allready swimming in them, could still play their favorite Mechs, while newcomers would be lead throught the classes over time.
This would have the added benefit, that you would know which weight class is missing atm.
And if you REALLY want to "buff nerf whatever" the classes, dont do it gear wise,
do it for example, arround the cap times, just as example, double the decap speed for Lights,
but half their cap speed,
half the decap speed of Assaults but double their cap speed (after all those things are meant to Assault stuff)
Put down the cap and decap speed of Heavys by 25% to simulate that they are meant to actually fight Mechs and neiter to take objectives nor to defend them.
And up both Values for mediums by 50% leaving them "weaker" in the main areas of Assaults and lights, but turning them in your "workhorse" which can do everything well enough.
Edited by Androas, 28 February 2014 - 04:26 PM.
