56 replies to this topic

[Almond Brown]

Well in truth if PGI expects to sell anymore Mechs, to those who currently have mixed stables, something will have to be done. What and how they do whatever it is, is up to them. It is recommended they do not wait until the next Mech Pack to decide what that is however.

Edited by Almond Brown, 17 December 2014 - 10:09 AM.

[Jetfire]

If you do not care about LP just cancel contracts and get new ones.

[Bigbacon]

cdlord, on 17 December 2014 - 08:50 AM, said:

If you don't care about the lore and LP, why are you dropping CW? You can still play both in the regular queue.

Because you can have fun playing and not care about lore in which this game doesn't really care about it yet it does in some way.

Edited by Bigbacon, 17 December 2014 - 10:24 AM.

[Nick Makiaveli]

Jetfire, on 17 December 2014 - 10:11 AM, said:

If you do not care about LP just cancel contracts and get new ones.

Bigbacon, on 17 December 2014 - 10:23 AM, said:

Because you can have fun playing and not care about lore in which this game doesn't really care about it yet it does in some way.

Plus he said he wants to play the new game modes...

[Sandpit]

This is an RP queue as well

If your friends are unwilling to compromise from time to time, no offense but that's on you guys and the entire concept of CW shouldn't be altered for that. You also have pub queue to drop in.

To insinuate that you have to "ignore" one of your friends is silly.

[Agent 0 Fortune]

If you friends are making you choose between them, they aren't really your friends, are they.
Get some real (virtual) friends, who are less selfish.

[Revis Volek]

Chem1cal, on 17 December 2014 - 09:17 AM, said:

2x here with alt accts, I recognize that's the best option but ideally I want my clan mechs moved over without having to grind for them again.

I'm also curious why there's no outrage over everyone just having two accts but there is over having two factions on one acct.

Because thats not how the game was made...its made to be Faction v Faction and IS v Clan. Sorry but all other games modes have ways for you to play together.

Having two accounts if the only remedy for this. I also dont think that should ever be allowed you pick one faction and thats it. Otherwise you are a traitor and a spy.

Sandpit, on 17 December 2014 - 10:51 AM, said:

This is an RP queue as well

If your friends are unwilling to compromise from time to time, no offense but that's on you guys and the entire concept of CW shouldn't be altered for that. You also have pub queue to drop in.

To insinuate that you have to "ignore" one of your friends is silly.

Or to insinuate that PGI is to blame is rather comical.....

Almond Brown, on 17 December 2014 - 10:09 AM, said:

Well in truth if PGI expects to sell anymore Mechs, to those who currently have mixed stables, something will have to be done. What and how they do whatever it is, is up to them. It is recommended they do not wait until the next Mech Pack to decide what that is however.

Why's that? I am all clan yet i am buying resistance pack so i can use them in the PUBLIC queue.


I think they will keep selling mechs just fine....There is no need to mix the groups. PGI has stated time and time again that this is FACTION WARFARE. If you wanna ride a clan mech and rock an IS banner you have to do that in the PUBLIC QUEUE.

Edited by DarthRevis, 17 December 2014 - 11:55 AM.

[DEMAX51]

Chem1cal, on 17 December 2014 - 09:03 AM, said:

Every 9 days then you mean badger since there is the 2 day waiting period. Every other week isn't a viable way to keep me interested in this game.

It'd be every 7 days, not 9.

If you take 1 week contracts, there's no 2 day waiting period after the contract expires. The 2 day waiting period is only if you break a contract that isn't up yet.

[AlmightyAeng]

Chem, just seems like what you're wanting isn't viable for the game.

You want to play with either person whenever you feel like it, but ONLY in the CW queue because it's what THEY care about.

So the public queue, which you could play with them in, isn't good enough.

If your two friends both played in competitive Football Leagues on different teams, you wouldn't be able to join either one at will, either.

The amount of freedom you are requesting to simply 'do whatever you feel like at the time' in a system structured on separated factions and harder-core gameplay seems unreasonable.

Edited by Ghost Badger, 17 December 2014 - 12:20 PM.

[Belorion]

Chem1cal, on 17 December 2014 - 08:52 AM, said:

Competitive play...

*that and both friends do care about lore and I want to play with them instead of the same game modes we've had for 2 years.

There is still competitive play in the group queue.

[cSand]

Belorion, on 17 December 2014 - 03:19 PM, said:

There is still competitive play in the group queue.

Great matches to be had in the solo or group queue



It's not "easy mode" or lesser skill required in any way as some would have you believe


You do have more new players I would think though but everyone's gotta start somewhere

[Durant Carlyle]

PGI has stated that CW is Hard Mode.

In OP's case, the decision of which friend to ignore is the Hard part.

Good luck, OP...

[deadmedo]

Wow. Very soon we can expect questions like "PGI, I have a GF, but there is a girl I met that I really like. Shoiuld I leave my GF?"

[Sandpit]

deadmedo, on 17 December 2014 - 04:22 PM, said:

Wow. Very soon we can expect questions like "PGI, I have a GF, but there is a girl I met that I really like. Shoiuld I leave my GF?"

nah, it would be more like "My GF doesn't like me playing MWO, you should let her drop in and play candy crush in her cockpit while I play MWO so she won't be mad. You're ****** game design and lack of accommodating her are ruining my relationship and if you don't correct this MWO WILL die because it's not inclusive enough"

[Chem1cal]

Jetfire, on 17 December 2014 - 10:11 AM, said:

If you do not care about LP just cancel contracts and get new ones.

If I could do so without having to wait 2 days and for a reasonable cbill cost I'd be fine with it. (I should be able to have a one week contract while my unit has a 'perm' contract) - I'm fine with the 200k cbills where it's at. (penalty for switching but worth it to play with friends).

Sandpit, on 17 December 2014 - 10:51 AM, said:

This is an RP queue as well

If your friends are unwilling to compromise from time to time, no offense but that's on you guys and the entire concept of CW shouldn't be altered for that. You also have pub queue to drop in.

To insinuate that you have to "ignore" one of your friends is silly.

As mentioned just above you, wanting to play new game modes/maps is important. Give me a queue with them and I'd be just fine with that. (Including a queue which does/doesn't keep it all IS/Clan per team)

Belorion, on 17 December 2014 - 03:19 PM, said:

There is still competitive play in the group queue.

The hardcore play / challenge is on CW battles. I hope people don't think the Hardcore thing about CW is the mini-map before the lobby.

deadmedo, on 17 December 2014 - 04:22 PM, said:

Wow. Very soon we can expect questions like "PGI, I have a GF, but there is a girl I met that I really like. Shoiuld I leave my GF?"

Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying, not that I'm talking about alienating the people who play this game with friends, that's how all the leet f2p games made all their money, alienating people with real world friends...

[Sandpit]

Chem1cal, on 17 December 2014 - 05:40 PM, said:

As mentioned just above you, wanting to play new game modes/maps is important. Give me a queue with them and I'd be just fine with that. (Including a queue which does/doesn't keep it all IS/Clan per team)

Feel free to ask PGI to include stuff like that in the pub queue then. You really expect an entire portion of the game to cater to something like this thread just because?
That's a bit silly.
You can't always have your cake and eat it too. PGI does a great job at offering you multiple way sof playing the game without requiring you to play in anything in particular.

[EGG]

Nobody has actually tried to answer this guys question.

OP you need to get rid of the Hunchback friend, he's clearly the worse of the two at making robot choices, AND he probably wants to join some awful faction like Liao to boot.

Drop him faster than the 2012 robot he's driving.

[syngyne]

Chem1cal, on 17 December 2014 - 05:40 PM, said:

Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying, not that I'm talking about alienating the people who play this game with friends, that's how all the leet f2p games made all their money, alienating people with real world friends...

Are you saying that the units who are for keeping CW faction restricted are composed only of people who aren't friends in real life?

[InspectorG]

Short term Contracts. Go!

[Tezcatli]

Short of them giving us multiple "characters" per account you are just going to have to deal with it. Though it's not exactly unreasonable to want multiple characters since it's pretty common in other games. But chances are, even if they did do that, equipment and cbills would not be shared.