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[Col Jaime Wolf]

anyone else have the problem where terra therma seems to come up 3-5 times in a row, and you dont even cycle between the other maps before it spams it at you again?

[Tetra One]

Yep it looks Terra is on heavy rotation again...same as it was a couple of months ago when i was starting...then alpine era began, now back to therma again....

While i dont mind any specific map i do mind that it feels like there is no randomness in maps....just a lot of this map...and a bit later a lot of that map...some others in between....map statistics show that too but over time it gets less apparent as more matches are played...some maps are obvioiusly favored above others in some periods of time....

For me i get Terra, Alpine and Caustic the most by a solid margin...

[Escef]

I'm not seeing it come up any more often than most other maps. Hell, since the stat reset I haven't even seen Caustic a disproportionate number of times, which I had before seen more of than is at all reasonable.

[Triordinant]

I just checked my map stats and Terra Therma is the map I drop in the most, followed by Tourmaline. Are they trying to discourage loadout diversity? As it is, I'm gimping my team if I bring a 'mech that can only fire half as often on hot maps as on temperate ones, so I end up using the same couple of 'mechs over and over again because I don't know where I'll end up.

Hopefully the lobby system coming on the 29th will let you know which map you're dropping in before you choose your 'mech. It would also be more realistic. No commander would knowingly send alpine ski troops to a hot desert or tanks into a swamp.

[Escef]

Triordinant, on 05 April 2014 - 04:40 AM, said:

It would also be more realistic. No commander would knowingly send alpine ski troops to a hot desert or tanks into a swamp.

Tell that to my buddies that were in 1st Stryker Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, stationed in Alaska, that got deployed to Iraq.

[Triordinant]

Escef, on 05 April 2014 - 04:49 AM, said:

Tell that to my buddies that were in 1st Stryker Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, stationed in Alaska, that got deployed to Iraq.

Somebody ought to be fired.

[IceCase88]

It is coming up entirely too frequently. PGI must want to start closing up shop on the game which is the only reason why they would want to torture its player base with this flawed map. Scare off new players and torture the existing player base. lol

[Escef]

Triordinant, on 05 April 2014 - 04:55 AM, said:

Somebody ought to be fired.

The least realistic thing is to expect a real world military to operate efficiently.

[Mike McSullivan]

Since the statreset i saw TerraTherma 28 times...all Icy maps added are at ~30, with FrozenCityNight (which i like the most) at 5 drops.

[Triordinant]

Escef, on 05 April 2014 - 05:48 AM, said:

The least realistic thing is to expect a real world military to operate efficiently.

While real world military inefficiencies are not likely to be fixed anytime soon (if at all), PGI actually has the option to fix MWO. If they don't, it won't harm my efficiency: I'll just keep bringing the same great-on-any-map 'mechs and racking up the kills while my enemies shut down. I'd be gimping my team if I brought anything else. I was just hoping for more diversity in 'mechs and loadouts and knowing which 'mech to bring based on the upcoming map would help with that.

[Escef]

Triordinant, on 05 April 2014 - 06:20 AM, said:

While real world military inefficiencies are not likely to be fixed anytime soon (if at all), PGI actually has the option to fix MWO. If they don't, it won't harm my efficiency: I'll just keep bringing the same great-on-any-map 'mechs and racking up the kills while my enemies shut down. I'd be gimping my team if I brought anything else. I was just hoping for more diversity in 'mechs and loadouts and knowing which 'mech to bring based on the upcoming map would help with that.

Depends on how they do it. Selectable maps will result in certain types of builds becoming more rare. For example, no one will want to play on Therma, Tourmaline, or Caustic which will make heat efficient builds more rare, and cause hot builds to be more common. OTOH, if the map is still random, but you get to choose a mech before you go live in it, it would make some people keep a more diverse stable of mechs. Not sure how they could do anything like with their current match maker, though. Current match maker uses an ELO score based on your wins and losses with the weight class of mech you are bringing. Further, having a mech that's optimized for the map will throw the match maker even worse. (As is, the match maker will often produce strings of wins and losses that appear to make no sense.)

[Triordinant]

Escef, on 05 April 2014 - 06:31 AM, said:

OTOH, if the map is still random, but you get to choose a mech before you go live in it, it would make some people keep a more diverse stable of mechs.

I approve this message.

[Faith McCarron]

With the stats reset, the map statistics page gives us an accurate snapshot of where map percentages are for each of us at the moment.

My most dropped on maps by far are Tourmaline, Alpine, and Terra Therma. Least dropped on is Forest Colony Snow. For comparison, I drop on Forest Colony Snow only 1/3rd as often as Tourmaline

[Escef]

Faith McCarron, on 05 April 2014 - 09:23 AM, said:

With the stats reset, the map statistics page gives us an accurate snapshot of where map percentages are for each of us at the moment.

My most dropped on maps by far are Tourmaline, Alpine, and Terra Therma. Least dropped on is Forest Colony Snow. For comparison, I drop on Forest Colony Snow only 1/3rd as often as Tourmaline

To be fair, I think the Forest Colonies, River Cities, and Frozen Cities have less chance than Alpine or Tourmaline, because they both are and aren't two maps, y'know?

[Faith McCarron]

Even if I combine my Forest Colony and Forest Colony Snow drops, they still only equal about 2/3rds the frequency of Alpine or Tourmaline

[Col Jaime Wolf]

would be nice to have like 5 mechs in a "dropship" to choose from once you are in a match

[Cruxs]

Ya I get It more than any other map with my new stats. On my old stats I have it more than some of the maps that have been in the game from the start. The other night I played it 8 times in a row. I'm starting to think PGI is just making us play it because of the complaints about it. A little revenge;)