Prosperity Park, on 13 September 2014 - 09:45 AM, said:
The only way to get banned is to deliberately act disrespectfully and in violation of the terms you agreed to follow. Also, getting banned only happens after repeated warning
You mean except for the time they had to change the ToS to encompass 3rd party sites and before they had done that or explained what this new CoC meant they stealth banned people indefinitely without announcement for things they had said on 3rd party sites not here on these actual boards?
Yeah those were totally deserved bans. From our great Community Manager who then made an even bigger ass of himself by violating basic reddit ToS in his misguided attempt to continue to shut down any negative press towards Transverse. Which is what those bans were always about. They knew which posters here would not swallow the party line on the whole "we've been half assing development of MWO and now we bring you Transverse! Become a founder today" announcement. So they banned them in advance and made up some new rule about no badmouthing PGI elsewhere.
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As to this whole council to fix ECM dog and pony show..
The community can't fix ECM, that's far too complex of an issue that is connected to how lrm indirect fire and targeting, what can the game actually handle and implement features wise to represent things like C3, stealth armor, what can we code TAG, BAP and NARC to do and what can't we code them to do. And so on. Its not just ECM its so many other related systems.
The problem with MWO's development has always been changes that are either never tested by the community so no feedback is available or even worse changes that the community is adamant are not good for the game being pushed through anyways.
Everyone knew the CERLL burn change was going to be awful. THAT CHANGE WAS POST IGP. That was all Russ and Paul. It would result in hitting your own teammates and make the weapon system pointless. It was unfun, bad and would just result in everyone abandoning it.
But PGI did it anyways because they don't listen. Guarantee any poll asking about that change would have been 80%+ against.
Now suddenly its our fault for not being more organized and giving a clear message. We are players not developers we don't have access to all the data they can use to see if ECM is too effective.
We only have our own personal anecdotal evidence to go off. The only thing we as players can say about ECM is: it feels way too important and powerful.
If the Vindicator had an ECM variant how much stronger would that chassis seem to us? Is that messed up?
This whole idea is a joke and that we're discussing ECM instead of issues that PGI knows damn well the massive majority of the community is in agreement on:
-Ghost Heat (bad, stupid, too hidden, too arbitrary, ac2's wtf)
-Convergence (we need it badly, its the #1 contributor to the very low TTK, its meant to be in the game, it makes FLD weapons too good)
Lets ignore those and instead form a council to discuss a very complex issue that really requires a designer's vision, understanding of the underlying game systems and detachment from personal biases to fix.
I'm glad you guys are having fun with this silly idea but its an utter waste of time and after you all buy clan grab deal part deux and CW gets delayed an extra 90 days... look back on how easily they distracted you into fussing about ECM of all things.
Edited by Hoax415, 13 September 2014 - 10:41 AM.