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[Darian DelFord]

Put in Two Columns. The one you prefer and another that you absoultely refuse to play... ie conquest for me.

I am at 6 in a row in conquest and all i want to play is skirmish. I have not played a conquest match in almost a year and for good reason. I think this will make this new mode selection alot better, with the understanding that you may get a ROFLStomp or increased wait times.

I do not think it would be to hard to put in.

[Lupin]

Funny I just had 4 skirmish in a row, and I only want to play Assault or Conquest.

As for team balance that's still out of the window, all where one sided.

Well done PGI for finding another way to drive players off.

[Joe Mallad]

Darian DelFord, on 07 October 2014 - 12:21 PM, said:

Put in Two Columns. The one you prefer and another that you absoultely refuse to play... ie conquest for me.

I am at 6 in a row in conquest and all i want to play is skirmish. I have not played a conquest match in almost a year and for good reason. I think this will make this new mode selection alot better, with the understanding that you may get a ROFLStomp or increased wait times.

I do not think it would be to hard to put in.

i understand why some dont want to play some modes or maps. Please dont think im bashing you or anyone for that. But once CW is in full swing, you and others do realize that CW is not going to be JUST Skirmish mode right? And if people are willing to drop out of game modes and maps in CW because they dont like those modes or maps, how will that effect the game? Its will hurt your team, your ranking and the faction you play for. For what? All because people ONLY want to play what they want to play?

[Kutfroat]

3 out of 5 games were skirmish, only have assault and conquest active. thinking about suiciding as soon as i drop in skirmish as a protest.

[Monkey Lover]

Can we remove the ready button at the same time?

[Joe Mallad]

Kutfroat, on 07 October 2014 - 12:27 PM, said:

3 out of 5 games were skirmish, only have assault and conquest active. thinking about suiciding as soon as i drop in skirmish as a protest.

go ahead. Doing this repeatedly on purpose will only get you banned. If you really want to stop playing the game and go out with a bang, than sure give it a go

[WarHippy]

Darian DelFord, on 07 October 2014 - 12:21 PM, said:

Put in Two Columns. The one you prefer and another that you absoultely refuse to play... ie conquest for me.

I am at 6 in a row in conquest and all i want to play is skirmish. I have not played a conquest match in almost a year and for good reason. I think this will make this new mode selection alot better, with the understanding that you may get a ROFLStomp or increased wait times.

I do not think it would be to hard to put in.

The simplest solution would be to revert it back to a hard selection. This was such a bad idea.

[Darian DelFord]

Yoseful Mallad, on 07 October 2014 - 12:26 PM, said:

i understand why some dont want to play some modes or maps. Please dont think im bashing you or anyone for that. But once CW is in full swing, you and others do realize that CW is not going to be JUST Skirmish mode right? And if people are willing to drop out of game modes and maps in CW because they dont like those modes or maps, how will that effect the game? Its will hurt your team, your ranking and the faction you play for. For what? All because people ONLY want to play what they want to play?

I do not quit out intentionally, I play. I am merely saying there needs to be an option to exclude a game mode. CW is something completely different.

[EyeOne]

I used to be picky about it. But now I just leave it on "Any" 100% of the time. Give it a month and you won't even care anymore. All 3 game modes play pretty much the same way anyway.

[DEMAX51]

EyeOne, on 07 October 2014 - 12:42 PM, said:

I used to be picky about it. But now I just leave it on "Any" 100% of the time. Give it a month and you won't even care anymore. All 3 game modes play pretty much the same way anyway.

Exactly how I feel about it. There's virtually no reason to cap in Conquest (at least, not until the final moments of the game), and Assault just kinda lends itself to a deathmatch anyway. Just three slightly different flavors of the same thing.

[Pjwned]

I can appreciate having an option to not play a mode that you simply don't want to play, but it sounds like that would require a fair bit of reworking the matchmaker and the possibility of noticeably longer wait times in the queue for those that completely exclude a game mode.

[Joe Mallad]

Darian DelFord, on 07 October 2014 - 12:42 PM, said:

I do not quit out intentionally, I play. I am merely saying there needs to be an option to exclude a game mode. CW is something completely different.

oh i agree. But what I think they are doing right now is laying the ground work for how it will work in CW. Once CW kicks off, the non CW gamers will most likely not have this to deal with and will go back to playing anything their heart desires.

[Darian DelFord]

EyeOne, on 07 October 2014 - 12:42 PM, said:

I used to be picky about it. But now I just leave it on "Any" 100% of the time. Give it a month and you won't even care anymore. All 3 game modes play pretty much the same way anyway.

My issue really is Assault mode, I loath that mode since they put turrents in since they removed a VIABLE tactics for lights, now there are LRM guaridans that cut off half of some maps from light pilots. I like to get in your backs and its hard to do when the turrets are pusring LRM fire into you. In a light it does not take much.

I DO NOT care to play Assault or Conquest, I CARE to play Skirmish. When I group with my regiment different sotry. When I solo drop I do not want to be FORCED to play modes I have not had to choose in the past.

A simple exclusion criteria is not hard to ask for. It was in the game before today.

Its hard enough playing lights at this stage of the game. We do not need any more frustrations.

Edited by Darian DelFord, 07 October 2014 - 12:58 PM.

[Kutfroat]

Yoseful Mallad, on 07 October 2014 - 12:39 PM, said:

go ahead. Doing this repeatedly on purpose will only get you banned. If you really want to stop playing the game and go out with a bang, than sure give it a go

that´s my legititmate - i get forced into a game i deselected - form of protest.

[WarHippy]

Pjwned, on 07 October 2014 - 12:52 PM, said:

I can appreciate having an option to not play a mode that you simply don't want to play, but it sounds like that would require a fair bit of reworking the matchmaker and the possibility of noticeably longer wait times in the queue for those that completely exclude a game mode.

Seeing as we already had the option to play certain game modes and the wait time was trivial, and the matches were as balanced as they are after this change I don't see where this "fair bit of reworking" would be needed.

[EyeOne]

Darian DelFord, on 07 October 2014 - 12:58 PM, said:

A simple exclusion criteria is not hard to ask for. It was in the game before today.

True. But we were asked as a community if we would be willing to give up game mode choice for the chance to get matched with other players more evenly. And the community overwhelmingly said "yes".

If we had a much larger player base we could have the cake and eat it too.

[Torgun]

If we go by the votes, seeing how the 20% that didn't want that change will lead to them playing less when they're forced to play some modes they don't like, I doubt that will lead to better matchmaking as we'd actually get less players due to this change.

[KamikazeRat]

i think this is a good thing, one thought i just had, it has the same effect as random maps...when you know you're only going to play assault, you bring a mech build for that playstyle, if you might drop into conquest, you're going to think a little harder about how you build your mech, and you might want some more speed to get around to points a little better...

just saying, might help the light and medium numbers go up a bit in the queue

[Foxfire]

KamikazeRat, on 07 October 2014 - 01:17 PM, said:

i think this is a good thing, one thought i just had, it has the same effect as random maps...when you know you're only going to play assault, you bring a mech build for that playstyle, if you might drop into conquest, you're going to think a little harder about how you build your mech, and you might want some more speed to get around to points a little better...

just saying, might help the light and medium numbers go up a bit in the queue

So now I not only have to play on maps that I loath, I also have to do so while playing game modes I don't like?

How is that productive to the longterm health of a game like this?

[Kutfroat]

KamikazeRat, on 07 October 2014 - 01:17 PM, said:

i think this is a good thing, one thought i just had, it has the same effect as random maps...when you know you're only going to play assault, you bring a mech build for that playstyle, if you might drop into conquest, you're going to think a little harder about how you build your mech, and you might want some more speed to get around to points a little better...

just saying, might help the light and medium numbers go up a bit in the queue

i think lights and mediums will get even more rare. if you watched some streamers during the tournament...90% in direwolfs or timberwolfs, skirmish only. why weaken yourself with speed and low firepower if you can stay on one spot and the enemy will come to you with no other option at all to win a game than brainless deathmatch. if your team is lucky enough to end up 2/2/3/5 it´s like a guaranteed win. so i think light and medium numbers will not change or drop even more.