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[CharlieChap]

Was thinking about stuff and talking with a friend and had an idea that would maybe add a new game mode quite simply.

In Battletech literature units are not always made up of mixed lances.
Sometimes they are made up entirely of one weight class or another.

eg a Light company/ assault company (thats 3 lances or all 12 mechs). There are also much bigger formations that are not mixed described in the novels.
eg Redburns Light Company (originaly Xiang's) or the Liao King Crab Division that they go into action against in one of the early novels...
(probably clan equivalents, I havn't got far into the clan novels ?...)

Such a mode could include all existing game modes but with both sides consisting entirely of mechs of just one weight class.

Two Light companies dukeing it out would represent a reconnaissance skirmish and add something that we don't have, two assault companies going hammer and tong's against each other, quite a different experience.

The matchmaker could just use ELO and total relative weight for this and drop the 3/3/3/3 parameter for 12 of a particular weight class, things that it can already do.

It could also provide a 'safety valve' when a particular weight class becomes overly represented as some do on occasion which may even out the que's and reduce wait time ?.

Just an idea, thought it worthwhile typing it out...simple idea but have not seen it anywhere.

Edited by CharlieChap, 27 November 2014 - 06:23 AM.