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[Evengar Dragonis]

I played the first matches in the new system.
I really hate it. I hate the skirmish, but I'm in it. I'm out of the game.
Bye!

First match - 4-12.
Second match - 5-12.
Thanks, PGI.
Equal Elo? Serious?
I will not pay you the money.

Edited by Leonid, 07 October 2014 - 12:15 PM.

[TygerLily]

Tighter matches? Yes please!

[Kiyoshi Amaya]

Ok, soooo, played a few games with the new system... Sorry guys, I really hate it. I really don't like being forced to play a game mode I really don't like and don't want to play (Conquest) and to a degree the same goes for maps.

There are much better ways of doing things than this system. So until this changes, someone tell me what I'm supposed to do if I get conquest? Put up with it so PGI thinks I like it? Disconnect and let my team down? Stop playing altogether (at least I won't have to put up with terrible therma anymore)? It's not a very nice position to be put in quite honestly. What to do.......

[TygerLily]

Shrekken, on 07 October 2014 - 01:43 PM, said:

Ok, soooo, played a few games with the new system... Sorry guys, I really hate it. I really don't like being forced to play a game mode I really don't like and don't want to play (Conquest) and to a degree the same goes for maps.

There are much better ways of doing things than this system. So until this changes, someone tell me what I'm supposed to do if I get conquest? Put up with it so PGI thinks I like it? Disconnect and let my team down? Stop playing altogether (at least I won't have to put up with terrible therma anymore)? It's not a very nice position to be put in quite honestly. What to do.......

What's been your ratio of Conquest to Assault/Skirmish and how many games have you played under the new system?

[BjornAreStolen]

I don't go often to the forums, and I even rearer poste anything. But after going in and realizing how the new system worked, I've taken the time to go in here, read this entire thread, and now post. I belong to the kind of players that like to be able to choose what kind of battle I play. When the option was able to be set as default a few months ago, I was happy, it sped things up. After playing 5 games now, 2 have been skirmish, the rest beeing the two others that I don't like. I hope this modification is changed back, or else I don't know if I'd still be interrested, which is sad, because this has been a game that I like a lot

If we are so few active players that this is absolutely nessecary, might I suggest that we simply drop 3 optional game-modes, and rather make a fourth one, trying to incorporate the best from the 3 matchmodes?

[Kiyoshi Amaya]

TygerLily, on 07 October 2014 - 01:46 PM, said:

What's been your ratio of Conquest to Assault/Skirmish and how many games have you played under the new system?

Out of 11 games, 2 conquest, 4 assault and 5 skirmish.

I did find myself hoping each time the searching icon was spinning,that the next game wasn't going to be conquest. It feels like the fun factor has dropped a bit more... I get that same feeling with terrible therma too. When ever I see the preload screen all I can see is preciouses (and 9 hours of walking... Oh and there's only one return, and that's of the Jedi!)...

[iHover]

Russ Congrats on the new game mode "Disconnect Race" where we all drop realize we are not in a mode we wish to play and race to DC.

[Bartholomew bartholomew]

Well it's in and every game was skirmish. Do not mind that mode, but what is the point.

I foresee you having to turn this back off.

Edited by Bartholomew bartholomew, 07 October 2014 - 02:12 PM.

[WM Jeri]

Done with the game till this goes away.

[FIREKRAQUR]

Don't like it. That's my input.

[Bmetranger]

Played About 8-12 Matches only 3 Skirmish. Tactical retreat on all Conquest. Mostly Stomp on the other with other people just not playing if the didn't like the mode and wait time still no better. Half the playyers have no clue how to run in certain modes anyway. EPIC FAILURE PGI. Will not be playing much until MODe select if put back in place.

[Godfrey Kasparov]

ECM PARITY AND MATCHMAKING NEED FIXED NOT GD MISSION STYLE!

[Hugh Manatee]

A: If they're going to start making these kinds of changes based on "community feedback" or polls in the forums they need to have some sort of alert in the game or news feeds. I don't recall anything posted in the news on the launcher, the in game adds or on the front page of MWOmercs.com. I kinda feel like arthur dent in hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, where they posted a notice of intent to demolish his house in the basement of a government building, but the first he heard of it was when the bulldozers were outside his house.... The Vogons later demolished earth under a similar pretext...

B: Isn't this kind of thing why we have the public test servers? so we can try these kind of bad ideas and quash them before they go live? This like the mouse to fire group 1 debacle we had last year... Or the 3PV fiasco... seriously have we learned nothing...

C: I have only assault mode checked, I hate conquest for obvious and various reasons and don't like playing skirmish without the option to end the match by base assault rather then have to hunt the last remaining ecm spider in a direwolf. First 2 matches were skirmish, then 2 conquests, then 2 assaults then a conquest and a skirmish. 50% of the matches were infuriating wastes of my time... Who thought this was a good idea, who out of the 1600 respondents to the poll read the question and didn't realize "oh wait this means they'll put me in the conquest queue"....

[jozkhan]

OK I have some questions to condense in this feedback thread, as there are alot of threads now about this... and in the spirit of Town Hall and 'new' PGI knowing when they have done something wrong.

1. Back when I used to play Conquest mode (before it became in my opinion not worth playing due to the cap time increases) but back then, I used to have a stable of mechs I would use just for conquest. How can you even know you will select the right mech for conquest now?

2. Why would anyone (who wants to play conquest) bother putting in the capture accellerator module if they have a 33% or less chance of getting to play Conquest mode per match?

3. When I used to 'learn to play' conquest I spent a lot of time building and tweaking mechs and loadouts (i.e. fast mechs etc) for Conquest mode. How does a new player 'train' themselves to play conquest mode if they only have a 33% or less chance of getting to play Conquest mode per match?

4. Why is it this form of multiplayer player game mode preference only selection has never ever been implemented in the games business? Why is the whole industry on one side of this line (allowing for freedom of choice) and PGI on the other side of this line alone?

5. Is it not reasonable considering question 4. that many players are likely to take this new system very badly because there is no experience of it in the gaming world, plus the freedom of choice had already been given and has now been taken away. Surely there is a better way to implement minor improvements to the match maker than to risk losing players / customers?

Edited by jozkhan, 07 October 2014 - 04:52 PM.

[RAMBROSE]

I don't like playing conquest- just my preference. That choice removed, I will play a lot less.

[Meta 2013]

Please email me when you change this back so I can start playing again. Its bad enough you make us suffer through horrible teams of all noobs because of you ridiculous insistent on making noob ELo's the default elo you try to drive all players to. now we have to suffer with the crap game modes as well.

So one can only assume your trying to kill the game off for some reason, or simply get rid of the? True MechWarrior players in favor of the Clueless noob, why else would you do something so stupid. Yep Stupid. Slowly you are driving away all the players who are not tourists, stopping by till the next installment of "whatever comes out" I really don't understand why...but you always choose failure for an option first.

Well the good news ..its working...Prime time us ....absolutely horrible matches .... 8 or more players no clue how to play ... 50 damage each ...is a good match. Useless to during those hours.

But force me now to play a game mode I hate .... and ban me if I leave the crap mode you FORCED me to play, when I pay money for prime time, Ah no.

I honestly think Obama has made smarter choice than you folks, you actually do things and are even dumber than our government. Well Done, Please...run for office.

[Rushroca]

Funny thing is that the only game mode I have Dropped on tonight is Conquest (assault is only mode selected) and the main group of players in the drop is skirmishers. which means the capture points are pointless with a murder mob roaming around.

[Sky Hawk]

Let me see... I played 2 Conquest, 2 Assault, 2 Skirmish..

- Ye, by one Conquest, I "run" (with 60 kph) in the nearest cap point.... frontal in a DW + Lance.. Guess what.. Ye.. I have a new window in my Banshee..

- By Assaults,... I don't played it, since turrets were put on every map... I swear, since then, I really forgot, how boring it is to play that... Now I remember again... sadly..

- So, I played 2 times from 6 Skirmish, that is 33%... MY problem with that? ... Ye, I voted all 6 times "Just for Skirmish"... so..

Summary: How can I explaine.. Hmm... (Ye, the original variant would be sure redacted...).. Ok, "I am not really so happy..."

Edited by Sky Hawk, 07 October 2014 - 05:48 PM.

[Chuanhao]

Prior to the patch, I would have the means to configure my mech to suit the mode, seeing that maps are not selectable. Now I have no means of purposefully configuring my mech at all. E.g. I do not want a whale for conquest.

Even if ELO is superb, my game is ruined by potentially having chosen the wrong mech. Imagine a std AWS-8Q playing conquest in Terra Therma!

Finally, would be good to have more notification of polls. And have it under commanders chair or something. I noticed that polls for heavy and assault IS mechs were also not immediately available on the main forum page.

it is not a nice feeling to lose certainty and the chance to exercise a choice.

[Coolant]

hate, hate, hate the new system. played 3 Conquests in a row and I hate Conquest, despite having only Skirmish checked. Sure enough one of the games had lights running around capping at the end. This game should be about combat...

Hate it....