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[MechsForTheMechGods]

Oh awesome, another event I cannot participate in because I can only play CW at 10fps rather than the 40+fps in normal pug.
Even the personal challenge is CW only, goddamnit.

Edit: Oh cool, been trying to save up for a Hellbringer and now they are 35% off.
Would be able to get one with another 2million, but I guess i gotta grind some more....

Edited by MechsForTheMechGods, 22 May 2015 - 02:52 AM.

[Black Ivan]

The eventseems like a desperate try by PGI to attract players tp Clan side, because they start to realize that there are so few players there left.

[Joseph Mallan]

aniviron, on 21 May 2015 - 08:16 PM, said:

The only incentive to play IS this weekend in CW is to deny other people something, while playing clan can get you something. Not sure why someone would voluntarily pick getting nothing guaranteed over probably getting something for free, unless you're a hardcore roleplayer or something.

Because there are those who just want to deny others. Have you even read this forum?

I signed up as a Lyran to try to stop the Clans. Time to put my C-bills where my Pie Hole is!

[Wildstreak]

madhermit, on 21 May 2015 - 09:37 PM, said:

Lol theyre even offering MC now. Pretty desperate attempt to breathe life into CW.

MC has been offered in contests/competitions before plenty of times. This MC is about the cost of a Hula Girl, instead of giving you a cockpit item, they give you the MC to buy a cockpit item of your choice or a Mechbay.

Ens, on 22 May 2015 - 02:28 AM, said:

this butthurt community 8[

Nope, people with legit criticisms of things.

[Romeo Deluxe]

Ens is spot on....

....but PGI is going about this the wrong way. They need to release some CW features then ask the community to join in and try it out on some specific weekend. Make it easy to change factions, maybe with a limit of how many people can do the switch and adjust it as needed. If they want to then do some minor event challenge, nothing to big, but that rewards all participants equally. Keep progressing CW until it starts to look better.

As far as the long queue times goes, this is where Ens is right. They should do some things to tweak it, but it still boils down to not enough population. I don't think the queue's will ever be as short as the solo queue until there is all the reasons to play CW and not solo. Until then the petulant whining is all on the players. I'm frankly annoyed more by the players than PGI at this point.

[Mar-X-maN]

First of all I need to get to the 50 points. The nerf to Mad Cat & Crow cost me approx. 35.000.000 C-Bills.
As much as I hate dancing to this tune, I need to fill up my bank account again, because after this event there will
be another devestating wave of clan mech nerfs and I need the money to be ready for this.

As far as I understand different clans can fight each other? I sure hope so, otherwise there might not be enough opponents
for this to work.

Now I totally don't accept this as a reparation or appology for the grief operation roundnerfhammer caused me. After all I will
have to work hard to recover my losses and even if I do I lost a lot of ingame value. Don't expect me to ever buy another mech or premium time again. Cause these will go up in smoke even if this game continues to exist. From now on I will only
buy cockpit items if I feel like it.

Oh and don't mistake the clan mech sale for anything as a distraction. Anyone with a proper tinfoil hat knows this is to disarm all speculations about PGI latest exploitative business practice. Funny it is to note that after the nerf of the value of the Timber and Crow they at least nerfed the price too.

[Innocent]

They will not get clan players till they do something to make clans fun. burst AC and long duration lasers are not fun. If the weapons are not balance as is then change range or damage. give the clan players something that works.

clan mechs run too hot and require too much face time. reduce the heat, damage, burn time and range of their med laser and med pulse and it will balance most of the problems.

the next issue is the mechlab. that is half the game and clan gets only part of the customization. make clans have a small range of engine rating available but give them some wiggle room. make it so that if the stock mech has endo/ferro it remains locked but allow mechs without those to upgrade to them. this will make is to the timber can't drop ferro for more crits but the summoner can add endo for tonnage (while having ferro locked to prevent it being switched). this would help most of the underperformers without helping those that are already good.

if your problem is range that is the fault of PGI for making their maps all about long range engagements. reduce the range of clans to be only 10% more than IS and call it good or change the maps to be more like canyon.

[Vellron2005]

This upcoming tournament is an attempt to breathe some life into CW, and the "CLANS ONLY" wins are a consolation prize for all the nerfs.
Personally, I plan to participate..

I just bought my third Timberwolf, and need to master them now. I bought it post nerf.. yes.. I like them still..

And I hope the CW ques will finally liven-up a little.. I'v been calling my clan brethren to take planets for a while now..

The rewards are not much, but I could totally use all of them.. the premium time will come in handy for my ZEL training, the MC will probably be used for permanent paint-jobs, and the 2Mil c-bills will go towards mech and weapon modules... so yaay :-)

[Catra Lanis]

They need to decide what they want CW to be. If it's only for big organized units that's ok but then they need to accept that there will never be more than a fraction of the community at large that bothers with it.

They could also make a new queue that operates side by side with the existing one where max premade size is 4 and the rest pugs and let the player choose which he will join each game.

[Romeo Deluxe]

LOL I'm finishing running through the trial clan mechs. This event is going to be painful for me.

[Revis Volek]

madhermit, on 22 May 2015 - 02:27 AM, said:

And you can get 600 in this one. No matter. No amount of MC is gonna make me play CW until they fix the matchmaking (which doesn't even exist at the moment) and balance out the organized vs pug stompfest games. I for one don't really enjoy waiting first 20 minutes in queue only to be spawncamped for another 10-15 minutes.

Their is NO MM in CW, they have stated that numerous times. That the way its suppose to be, sorry for you luck.

[RustyBolts]

LMAO. After what PGI has done to CW, the Map and the Clan mechs I plan on expelling as much effort into this challenge as it takes to flush a toilet.

[Tuefel Hunden]

Boycotting the event.

[Revis Volek]

Innocent, on 22 May 2015 - 05:38 AM, said:

They will not get clan players till they do something to make clans fun. burst AC and long duration lasers are not fun. If the weapons are not balance as is then change range or damage. give the clan players something that works.

This right here, its a game....its SUPPOSE to be fun. Not painful and agonizing to get some DMG on the board.

[Apnu]

Bolide, on 21 May 2015 - 07:55 PM, said:

PGI, why didn't you do something more thoughtful like combine this with Resistance to give both sides something to earn?

Because, Resistance will be next weekend's event if PGI's pattern holds. Maybe they're leading up to a big Clan III release the following weekend.

Clan I and II are supposed to be tied to CW I guess. Or they're trying to get people in CW for some reason.

I was solo pugging last night in my Resistance mechs and I saw the same number of TBRs, SCRs, and DWFs I've always seen. I just saw a lot more (I) than usual. I think a lot of players are trying out the clan mechs with the nerfs to and problably plan on being around in CW this weekend mining for the shinies.