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Let's say PGI develops 2 or 3 new game modes as part of the CW development and beyond.
I am just making up the following as an example:
- attack/defend
- escort
- arena (i.e. free for all PVP)
This would give 6 total game modes.
How can these be introduced without splitting the player base? Can this be done?
At the present time, with the hard game mode options, players can opt out of modes they don't like to play ... I think that is important because the game modes are not all equal and some mechs work better in some game modes than others.
BUT ... if there were 6 or more game modes instead of just three ... what could PGI do to add modes without further splitting the community?
I have one suggestion below ... I think PGI could use more ideas since part of the reason for mode voting was probably to make it trivially easy to add game modes. I don't think that approach would have been very satisfactory for the players but it would have been trivially easy to do.
So ... here is a thread for players to suggest alternatives ... and maybe PGI will listen and come up with a better idea.
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Game mode categorization:
Use mode grouping and voting together. At the present we have 3 categories of game modes.
1) Deathmatch (skirmish)
2) Deathmatch + single objective (assault)
3) Deathmatch + multiple objectives (conquest)
One idea could be to categorize any new game modes with one of these 3 (or any other categorization system)... players would then choose one or more top level categories for a game and the specific game mode would be selected within the category.
Examples:
Arena could be in the deathmatch category
Escort could be a deathmatch with one objective.
Attack/defend (depending on layout) could be deathmatch with either one or multiple objectives (e.g. cap two out of three opposing structures for the win).
Which specific game mode is selected would be chosen randomly once the category was chosen. The matchmaker would require no revisions except the voting step on specific game mode after category selection.
This would give players some choice of the general style of game they want to play without further breaking the queues by adding more categories ...
Other suggestions?
Edited by Mawai, 13 October 2014 - 10:43 AM.
