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[Joker Clown]

Private matches finally released a while ago and nothing really changed in my gaming experience. Why? NO ONE is using it in my unit. (Rarely) BUT WHY? No C-Bills..

I am a member of an active unit (Aces Wild), a lot of good people online and I rather game against them and other units VS PUGS. Whether it be 1v1, or any other set up up to 12 v 12. I totally understand C-Bills not being offered due to abuse. How about we "Ante Up" at the beginning of each drop and let the back end of the game disperse the winnings? Let the Host set the amount, 100k min? 250k, 500k, 1m+ games? MC games?

[CDLord HHGD]

Interesting... I can see this or a similar version for Solaris....

[Mainerd]

I have no desire to play competitively, but this sounds like a great way for there to be player run tournaments for those that want it..

[Foxwalker]

If they are not using it than they are missing a great chance for very targeted testing and training for your units. You drop an analyze specific mech combos, weapon configs and can try out new tactics. It would be nice if it gave C-Bills, but think of it as a better training ground for now.

[101011]

Joker Clown, on 06 June 2014 - 10:33 AM, said:

Private matches finally released a while ago and nothing really changed in my gaming experience. Why? NO ONE is using it in my unit. (Rarely) BUT WHY? No C-Bills..

I am a member of an active unit (Aces Wild), a lot of good people online and I rather game against them and other units VS PUGS. Whether it be 1v1, or any other set up up to 12 v 12. I totally understand C-Bills not being offered due to abuse. How about we "Ante Up" at the beginning of each drop and let the back end of the game disperse the winnings? Let the Host set the amount, 100k min? 250k, 500k, 1m+ games? MC games?

1 million C-Bills? You are crazy, quineg? The entire reason it gives you nothing is to prevent gaming it, for example, by doing 1v12 and the winners bring it in.

[Zieten]

guess goldsellers would love such a feature

[Jun Watarase]

Joker Clown, on 06 June 2014 - 10:33 AM, said:

Private matches finally released a while ago and nothing really changed in my gaming experience. Why? NO ONE is using it in my unit. (Rarely) BUT WHY? No C-Bills..

I am a member of an active unit (Aces Wild), a lot of good people online and I rather game against them and other units VS PUGS. Whether it be 1v1, or any other set up up to 12 v 12. I totally understand C-Bills not being offered due to abuse. How about we "Ante Up" at the beginning of each drop and let the back end of the game disperse the winnings? Let the Host set the amount, 100k min? 250k, 500k, 1m+ games? MC games?

Are you sure that some units aren't avoiding private matches because its much easier to get wins when doing 4 man drops in metabuilds vs pugs as opposed to fighting opponents that are on an even playing field? (Not saying you are). Historically speaking, everytime PGI attempts to add matchmaking elements to the game, a small group of players have tried their best to bypass it to rig matches in their favor (when we had a 8 man queue, people just sync dropped with incompatible weight classes to stack teams and get 8-0 curb stomp games, maximum c-bill/xp for minimal effort).

Its rather odd that PGI let people get away with gaming the system to get free wins for 2 years then when private matches are out they are suddenly concerned about it being used to game the system. PGI let people do 8 man drops against pugs, followed by sync dropping with incompatible weight classes against pugs.

I think private matches should pay out c-bills as per normal and simply have the GMs ban groups that trade wins in 12v12. People will always find a way to game the system, but penalizing proper players at the same time is just unfair. PGI isnt concerned at all about people sabotaging games currently, so the double standard with private matches seems rather odd.

Oh wait you can buy c-bills with MC. It makes perfect sense now...

Edited by Jun Watarase, 06 June 2014 - 10:58 AM.

[Ngamok]

It really wouldn't kill anyone if they did it 1 night a week unless you only play that 1 night a week. You've been here a while so have I. I have 70 mechs, 69 are mastered and about 110,000,000 C-Bills and my play time from March on has been shortened some and even more so now. If I was playing more, not having any C-Bills coming in 1-2 days a week wouldn't be the end of the world.

[cSand]

[Lyoto Machida]

cSand, on 06 June 2014 - 11:03 AM, said:

Lol...this is the first thing i thought of.

Kidnap that fool!

[Scratx]

I would rather private matches just give a flat reward for everyone, both cb and xp, and therefore eliminate abuse potential entirely.

Make it 40k cb or something a bit above and that's done.

[Joker Clown]

I'm tied of PUGs. Too much time setting up 4 mans to drop in a game with noobs running all over. 15 to 20 mins wasted. Drop after drop. Might get 1 fun drop in a hour. Win or lose. CW might not launch for another year or more. I've been playing since closed beta. I'm not interested in playing competitive just organized fun. We waste so many hours looking for another 12man to drop against. We normally have to break back down to 4 mans because during prime time evening hours in the USA we CAN NOT FIND ANOTHER 12 MAN for hours at a time. Fail to find just 12 people? A lot people rather grind C-Bills if there is no possibility to drop 12s. I rather not PUG. Ever. Never did in MW3 or 4.

[Biaxialrain]

Sounds like a whole lot of whining.

Players should only be allowed to drop solo on public servers anyway.

Organized, coordinated teams against new/solo/bad/young/old/returning players, is nothing but a bad experience for most and hurts the game.

[DONTOR]

Id absolutely duel for 1Mil Cbills, no restrictions, lets do this!

[Bhael Fire]

I really like the idea of private matches having the option to require a C-Bill ante from each player. Though, I'd set a minimum of 50K and set the max to 250K.

MC would most likely be problematic due to the fact there are legalities involved with cash transfers in the game that might be hard to get around.

[OneEyed Jack]

Never gonna happen.

While it would be neat to do for the honest folk, the AFK farmers would destroy the game farming Cb to "bet" on a private match with the outcome decided by Paypal.