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Grynos, on 30 January 2015 - 05:03 AM, said:
We know that Merc units are a major contributing factor in which factions/clans advance their planetary advances. I will say that from the Liao/Davion front I have seen it from both ends, as it stands right now , Davion does not have the majority of Merc Units that they had previously as well as Liao getting some help from Merc units recently. The real issue here is that the reason why the Merc Units are shifting from place to place with frequency. As it stands currently , it is better to be a Merc than a loyalist, especially when the rewards come out in CW... The best way to solve this issue , is to put Merc units on the same playing field as every other loyalist. Give them their own personal reputation, the LP they get from factions/clans would contribute to their own personal faction called "Mercs" . They would still be able to move around , but their matches would only contribute to their own faction.
With that done, then we can move onto how to stabilize the population imbalances that occur somewhat because of these Merc units.
This system is not as easy as the last but would solve some issues. PGI needs to create a algorithm , that calculates the population of a faction/clan and adjusts the payout based on the amount of population in said faction/clan...
But wait we already have that you say....
My system uses the one we have as well as one we do not. For loyalist units, there will not be much difference, other than breaking you loyalist contract will be more expensive, also if you break a loyalist contract and choose a different faction/clan to be a loyalist for you would have to pay your way in via c-bills. The prices for that would be determined by population of the new faction/clan..
Now for Merc units, your pay is directly tied to the population of a faction/clan currently. Here is an example..
We have 3 Merc units.. Alpha,Bravo Charlie. Alpha and Bravo have roughly 12-36 members, while Charlie has 60+ . Now they all have fulfilled their previous contracts. Alpha decides it is going to go back to Davion , looking at the contract it reveals that Davion is currently low on overall percentage population in MWO, taking the contract would benefit them by giving the Merc unit 125% LP and 125% c-bills of that factions current LP and C-bill payouts.. They decide to tell Bravo about it, but because of the shift of Alpha unit to Davion , when Bravo looks at the contract , taking the contract would give the Bravo unit only 105% LP and c-bill payout for the contract.... Charlie looks at the contract for Davion and sees that they would only get a 30% LP and c-bill payout, but then looks at Liao and sees that due to the changing populations, they would get 115% LP and c-bill payout from joining them..
In closing make Merc units actually have to shop around for the best deals, while penalizing Merc units that decide to flood a faction. That way population can be a little more regulated without having to put any hard population caps on anything.
With that done, then we can move onto how to stabilize the population imbalances that occur somewhat because of these Merc units.
This system is not as easy as the last but would solve some issues. PGI needs to create a algorithm , that calculates the population of a faction/clan and adjusts the payout based on the amount of population in said faction/clan...
But wait we already have that you say....
My system uses the one we have as well as one we do not. For loyalist units, there will not be much difference, other than breaking you loyalist contract will be more expensive, also if you break a loyalist contract and choose a different faction/clan to be a loyalist for you would have to pay your way in via c-bills. The prices for that would be determined by population of the new faction/clan..
Now for Merc units, your pay is directly tied to the population of a faction/clan currently. Here is an example..
We have 3 Merc units.. Alpha,Bravo Charlie. Alpha and Bravo have roughly 12-36 members, while Charlie has 60+ . Now they all have fulfilled their previous contracts. Alpha decides it is going to go back to Davion , looking at the contract it reveals that Davion is currently low on overall percentage population in MWO, taking the contract would benefit them by giving the Merc unit 125% LP and 125% c-bills of that factions current LP and C-bill payouts.. They decide to tell Bravo about it, but because of the shift of Alpha unit to Davion , when Bravo looks at the contract , taking the contract would give the Bravo unit only 105% LP and c-bill payout for the contract.... Charlie looks at the contract for Davion and sees that they would only get a 30% LP and c-bill payout, but then looks at Liao and sees that due to the changing populations, they would get 115% LP and c-bill payout from joining them..
In closing make Merc units actually have to shop around for the best deals, while penalizing Merc units that decide to flood a faction. That way population can be a little more regulated without having to put any hard population caps on anything.
