Tarogato, on 07 April 2015 - 08:29 AM, said:
A stock queue would be excellent for the new player experience.
Are you
INSANE?
Players would finally learn to deal with stock Mechs. Wheeee! Happy-super-good-fun-time! Then they'd have to learn how to deal with custom loadouts.
It'd be like when the Clans first came in. They'd get wrecked. They'd come here and whine and complain. It would be good for the new playerbase in no way, especially because all stock Mechs aren't created equal. They'd learn about metagame way to early, and if they're anything like most people I know here, they'd get ticked off about it.
Jack Corban, on 07 April 2015 - 08:16 AM, said:
First of not everyone has 23 Friends online to play a Privat Match all the time.
Second a Mech is not defined by the chassis. In Battletech there was a Rule to build your own mechs. But neither were those canon nor were those called Hunchback, Dire Wolf ..... you get the point.
IS Mechs have allways been build aroound the Weapons the utalize. They are Hardwired into the Chassis and the Chassis looks like it does because of that. Hunchback, Hollander, Catapult to name a few.
... [not relevant]
What you say is if i take this pod and this pod and you rip out the weapons and then put in this and that ammo plus this system that = a "Variant" of the Mech you used as groundwork. And That is simply put wrong. Its is doable in this Game yes but its neither canon nor will it ever be. So don't come along and advertise somthing as a direwolf that is not. End of story.
First, that's your problem. I have probably 24+ people online most of the time on my friend list. Get a Stock Mech player-group together. Put in an effort yourself and stop relying on PGI to do everything for you.
Second a Mech to me is defined by a chassis the same way a species is defined by a genus. I'm scientifically minded, so that'd how I work. I guess it's the difference of thought pattern there, and isn't worth arguing about anyways.
Third, my Dire Wolf, even modified, is derivative of the DWF. Same way
Lupus is derivative of
Canis. It's the way I think v/s the way you think, and there's no point in continuing further in that debate.
Rhaythe, on 07 April 2015 - 08:12 AM, said:
I've itemized several reasons why a stock queue would be an improvement to the game in general, ESPECIALLY because of the new player experience, which would be *vital* for this game going to Steam.
There's no benefit to stock mode for new players. They'd master the crappy stock loadouts and then have to learn to deal with custom loadouts. Its like comparing apples to oranges.
(Oranges are better.) They're two totally different things.
Prove to me that playing only stock and then having to learn about custom loadouts and how to combat them is a good thing. But I've done the new player experience, and even with custom loadouts it's hard.
Edited by DavidHurricane, 07 April 2015 - 08:50 AM.