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[Sandpit]

InspectorG, on 17 December 2014 - 08:51 PM, said:

Short term Contracts. Go!

but that requires compromise.

[MischiefSC]

So we should **** all over the concept of CW, the nature and purpose of actual factions, IS and Clans, all that... so that you can play with groups on both sides of the war?

This is literally like saying that you want Halo to let you play in Blue and Red team at the same time cuz you got buddies on both sides.

No. Not at all. It's silly to even consider.

[Sandpit]

MischiefSC, on 18 December 2014 - 12:29 AM, said:

So we should **** all over the concept of CW, the nature and purpose of actual factions, IS and Clans, all that... so that you can play with groups on both sides of the war?

This is literally like saying that you want Halo to let you play in Blue and Red team at the same time cuz you got buddies on both sides.

No. Not at all. It's silly to even consider.

Or
It would be like Halo setting up a persistent universe to pitting earth forces against the covenant for control of the galaxy and then letting him play for both sides at the same time. (Maybe that analogy will help him understand better)

TL;DR
Drop pub queue

[BumbleBee]

I personally would like Invasion to be in the public queue, and have it make NO difference to the CW planetary map.

Basically, it could be that if you take Clan Mechs, you are on one team, IS Mechs in the other (random as to who is attacking or defending).

Maybe just have a "Dropship" window pop up when you enable the mode so you can have your 140-240tons of Mechs pre-selected if you get Invasion as the gametype, and a "Load Dropship" button in Mechlab or the Home tabs for altering said selections at any time.

[AlmightyAeng]

Sandpit, on 17 December 2014 - 05:28 PM, said:

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"

I dunno man...if PGI put candy crush into the lobby during queue waits...

[Djinnhammer]

EGG, on 17 December 2014 - 08:17 PM, said:

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.

I see what you did there

[Chem1cal]

MischiefSC, on 18 December 2014 - 12:29 AM, said:

So we should **** all over the concept of CW, the nature and purpose of actual factions, IS and Clans, all that... so that you can play with groups on both sides of the war?

This is literally like saying that you want Halo to let you play in Blue and Red team at the same time cuz you got buddies on both sides.

No. Not at all. It's silly to even consider.

This is like halo saying if you like to play with the pistol you will always be on the red team and if you like to play with a rocket launcher you will always be on the blue team, oh and if you decide to switch which weapon you want to use you need to wait 2 days to do so.

Even more against the "drop pub queue" argument is the faction prizes (mechbays and mc).

I still don't understand how there is so much flaming for having two 'characters' per account but there is no flaming about all the people who readily admit "yeah i made a second account because I knew the devs would force lore on us"

[AlmightyAeng]

Chem1cal, on 18 December 2014 - 08:15 AM, said:

This is like halo saying if you like to play with the pistol you will always be on the red team and if you like to play with a rocket launcher you will always be on the blue team, oh and if you decide to switch which weapon you want to use you need to wait 2 days to do so.

It's really not like that at all because in Halo EVERYONE has access to ANY weapon.

That's not the case here.

Also, people aren't flaming you for the idea, they're flaming you for asking PGI to commit the resources to totally revamping the system. There are for more important things right now.

[o0Marduk0o]

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.

CW is hardly a competitive game mode. You can't have all. When both care about lore, then I see no possibility to play CW together with them. You have to deal with it. Your both friends can't play with each other either.

When you can play both sides in CW on one account, then the decision to pick one side is meaningless.

Edited by o0Marduk0o, 18 December 2014 - 08:27 AM.

[Joe Mallad]

Chem1cal, on 17 December 2014 - 09:14 AM, said:

I'm not asking for a format change, loyal people can keep their 50% lp bonus, just let me have 2 factions with no lp bonus or even an lp reduction, wouldn't impact how you play at all.

I'll even play for the lesser populated factions if I can still get in games with my friends.

This game has far more parallels to LoL than wow or ever quest, each battle comes from clicking a button in a lobby not walking your mech all the way across a persistent world. LoL has lore if you choose to care about it but it doesn't ruin playing games with friends for it.

ok i tried to offer help but you are just on some I WANT EVERYTHING MY WAY kick. Im sory you cant play with your 2 friends and they want to play on separate sides. You either pick a side... or better yet, make new friends lol. Thats all i got for you

Edited by Yoseful Mallad, 18 December 2014 - 02:16 PM.

[Angel of Annihilation]

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.

This is no different from any other MMO that has factions for PVP content. I played WoW beta, love my Tauren Shaman, but all 4 of my friends wanted to play Alliance so guess what? Yep, I bit the bullet and played on the Alliance side. Same with SWTOR, I wanted to play Empire so my friend who wanted to play a Jedi ended up rolling a Sith instead.

So to make a long story short, it isn't up to PGI to accommodate you, rather it is up to you and your friends to accommodate each other.

[IIIuminaughty]

I say get new friends they both are obviously ruining your life

[Shaka808]

Except PGI already made it possible to play both sides. They just made you waste money if you diddnt do it the correct way and want you to spend more money if you do want to do it. Allowing people to just transfer mechs ala a black market type of situation would solve everyones issues. (your issue of not wanting people even having multiple accounts would be solved by actually banning people/erasing accounts of people doing it but that will never happen since it will cost them money)

[Lyoto Machida]

Sorry, TS but you have to simply just...

[FupDup]

Thread Title said:

PGI which friend should I ignore?

CORERULE!

[Belorion]

If you played wow how did you deal with one friend going Alliance and one Horde?

This is like that.

[Chem1cal]

Only WoW had a player base (not people waiting 30 minutes to drop), but no, I didn't play WoW more of a diablo2/Path of Exile kind of person.

I'm not asking for any advantages over the people who simply set up another free account way back when, I just want to be able to play whatever faction I have enough mechs to drop with (both). I don't want magical teleporting capabilities when faction owned drop ships come out, I don't want anything that would go against the lore.