NonCedo, on 19 August 2014 - 08:08 PM, said:
What was the win ration for clan verse IS? It was around 90% or so, listen, once again, I know you pro clan don't want to attribute that win to equipment. But gee, I guess if our IS piloting skills are so feeble, we might need to even things out somehow, just so it stays fun. Maybe 2 to 1 in our favor might be fair once cw goes live. What do you say?
Imagine you have a car race. One car goes 5mph faster than the other cars, but while that advantage is relatively minor, in the end the car that's 5mph faster ends up winning 90% of all the races. Why? Because it's an advantage. Nobody with a sound mind is going to disagree that Clan mechs have advantages over IS mechs. PGI wanted them to have advantages, although they didn't want the advantages to be easy to get.
Back to the race cars. How do you balance that car? You start by looking at where it's advantages lie, and slowly tweak them down. In this car's case, it's only 5mph faster than the other cars. You don't take away the power steering to give it some random disadvantage that does nothing to solve the fact that it's 5mph faster. You look at where the problem lies (speed), and adjust it slowly (1-2mph increments) down until it's now balanced with the other cars.
What most people are advocating when it comes to Clan mechs is they look at the statistic and go, "OMG Clans are SO OP! 90%? DEAR GOD! NERF THEM HARD!" It could very well be Clans have a relatively minor advantage that's just enough to upset the balance. All 90% says is that there's an imbalance. It DOES NOT say how much of an imbalance there is, nor the source of the imbalance.
What would happen if the judges for the car race saw that one car was winning 90% of the races, freaked out, and decided to make it go 40mph slower. Now the car is winning 0% of the races, and another imbalance was created. That's the very thing that keeps happening repeatedly to this game. Did nerfing the CERLL or CERPPC do ANYTHING to balance out Clan mechs? Nope. All it did was make those weapons unfun to use. That's the reason why IS mechs suck so bad. They've been the target of the nerfinator for a much longer time, and now only a select few IS chassis are even competitive.