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[Tenbatsu]

WarHippy, on 02 April 2014 - 08:21 AM, said:

While I appreciate the work those guys have done to make our own lobbies I really wish nobody would hear about it for fear PGI will just use it as an excuse not to make one because someone else did it for them.

I offerred to integrate MWO Lobby with MWO when I first launched the lobby in February of 2013 but I never got a response. I also offerred to do it for free and at no cost to them.

I too would have rather had PGI make a lobby system for MWO and I was under the assumption that they were going to in the future. My thread in the Fansite Dropship was titled 'A Temporary Lobby Solution' because of this reasoning.

I'm glad to see the lobby is being used again more than a year after I originally launched it. All of this attention has me excited to break open the source code again and start improving upon the existing functionality.

I also want to thank everyone out there who is spreading the word, 12Bravo and Ghost Badger especially.

[Roadbeer]

Looking forward to seeing what you guys do with it.

[12Bravo]

Hoping to see people start populating the lobby pretty soon here. We need to grow the community, I know that there is not much need for it until the 29th, however the more people we can start getting chatting it up now the better.

[Iskareot]

Joseph Mallan, on 02 April 2014 - 08:07 AM, said:

Boo ya!

Also just found the depressing news down in Meta...

Why do we have a game forum when the devs only seem to release pertinent info everywhere BUT here?

Because they do not want the replies there? See you cannot see them there, so you can post and just accept it.

Now this info is about as bass akward as I could imagine. So ... private matches will NOW not have a lobby system or some sort of system to communicate prior to choosing to combat each other.

Yep makes sense. Each month we bleed customers here and if anyone else can't see it I am sorry but this is just stupid.

I want to run Solo mostly but this even stumps most people

[Night Fury76]

Even if you run solo, you should jump on the MWOLobby.
As you can shoot the breeze with ppl and chat all things mechy while you drop.

[L A V A]

Private games are going to be great for:

1) 12 man tournament/league play
2) Gaming group training

If you are not part of a competitive gaming group, you have no idea how utterly frustrating trying to snyc drop 2 12-man teams can be IOT participate in these events. In one of our matches during the MRBC league it took over 3 hours to play 4 games. What a pain in my arse.

I guess having a 3rd Party Private Match Lobby will provide folks in small groups to be able to form alliances and play matches. Seems okay to me.

But from a competitive player perspective, I would heavily encourage folks to join large groups who will be able to use the private game feature not only to have the chance to play competitively, but to be able to play scenarios from Lore (for fun) and to get training and become better players.

[Sprouticus]

FYI, I had problems logging in due to either my version of firefox, or my firefox plugins.

Switched to IE and it worked like a charm.

[12Bravo]

Tenbatsu has been patching the site all day, you might have tried to connect when he was updating, I am running firefox with no problems...


That being said, we need as many people to log on as we can get to test for stability, it would help immensely.

[Tenbatsu]

Private matches are here, there has been no better time to use MWO Lobby. We had 86 people on at our peak today, it really started feeling like the old MW3 days on the zone.

If you haven't yet please sign up at http://mwolobby.com so you can join and organize private matches.

I will also be developing a form of community warfare over the next three to four weeks that will be integrated into the lobby software. Please spread the word in game and to your corp/clan/house mates so we can create a Mechwarrior community as strong as MW3 and 4.