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[WarHippy]

Yoseful Mallad, on 06 October 2014 - 11:49 AM, said:

I sent my OP idea to Russ and he replied that he's looking to go the route of tonnage limit per drop ship. That's where I got the info from. So if the tonnage limit is high enough but balanced, we all should be able to take 4 lights or 4 mediums with no problem. But I expect that the limit will not be high enough to allow 4 heavies or 4 assaults. Which to be honest, I'd be ok with. We should have a tonnage limit that allows us to field more lights and mediums than heavies or assaults. In larger battles, we should see more lights and mediums than the other mechs. And mediums are always said to be the work horse of any battle. So it should be more common to see them in greater numbers.

The one of each idea was pretty terrible, and honestly removed a lot of the competitiveness of this game as it artificially prevents teams from playing to their full potential. Some players are just plain better in lights than they are in heavies or assaults, and forcing them to drop with 50% of their mechs being something they are subpar with really hurts the team. I want to be able to put my aces in their places, and for some pilots that is in the roll of a particular class of mech. I'm not a fan of the tonnage limits either because it artificially hurts heavies and assaults while leaving lights and probably mediums alone. If they provide enough weight that you can take lets say 1x100, 1x85, 1x70, and 1x60 it would probably be fine.

Edited by WarHippy, 06 October 2014 - 01:39 PM.

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Yoseful Mallad, on 06 October 2014 - 01:15 PM, said:

clan players would be able to take 4 mad dogs sure, but the mad dog is very easy to take out. The hard point set up for it or any mech is something PGI should re-look at. IMO, I think some of these mechs have way to many hard points. Missile mechs should IMO only have up to 4 missile hard points.

I wouldn't do that anyway. I don't enjoy playing my Mad Dogs that much. My heart belongs to my Stormcrows and Jenners. I do wish for the increase in variety we are all hoping for (if the tonnage limit is implemented). Exploits will always appear, however.