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[Jin Ma]

Its unbelievable that ppl would pick that awesome over the nova

[IraqiWalker]

Jin Ma, on 12 July 2015 - 10:19 AM, said:

Its unbelievable that ppl would pick that awesome over the nova

I hope that was sarcasm. The Awesome is the mech that needs rescaling the most. Nova needs it too, but no mech needs it as much as/more than the awesome.

[Bloodweaver]

Nah. The Awesome, like Centurion, needs a new model more than it needs its model to be re-scaled. Its overall volume is actually not far off from where it should be. It's just proportioned horribly. The Nova is the opposite of that - its model is (mostly) OK, but someone seems to have clicked "expand to 150%" somewhere in the design process.

[Lily from animove]

Bloodweaver, on 12 July 2015 - 03:04 PM, said:

Nah. The Awesome, like Centurion, needs a new model more than it needs its model to be re-scaled. Its overall volume is actually not far off from where it should be. It's just proportioned horribly. The Nova is the opposite of that - its model is (mostly) OK, but someone seems to have clicked "expand to 150%" somewhere in the design process.

Not really, the issue is, by lore the Nova and the SCR have the same legs, because they are the same pods. Now if oyu scale that down from your said 150% and this would not work anymore, except you have some vodoo doing shrinking the leg pods for the Nova.

[Lily from animove]

IraqiWalker, on 05 July 2015 - 10:06 PM, said:

Clearly they do. Since they are asking us to pick which 5 to get fixed first.

No, if they would, they would fixed the most issued mechs that need it and not make a poll where people pick them.

[IraqiWalker]

Lily from animove, on 14 July 2015 - 03:22 AM, said:

No, if they would, they would fixed the most issued mechs that need it and not make a poll where people pick them.

Because then they can avoid the inevitable "Why wasn't X mech picked instead, it needs it, and is more important for Y reasons" flood of posts that would have happened if they unilaterally decided which mechs to work on first. This way, anyone can point to the polls and say "Because WE -the community- voted for X mech instead of Z mech".

I honestly think it's a good idea. We always pester them about being more transparent, using the forums more often (which I don't blame them, considering how hostile these forums became at several points in time), and including the community in more aspects of the development.

Basically, for me, this is a step in the right direction.

Now how do you think people would have reacted if PGi just came out and said: "We're going to re-scale the Awesome, Gargoyle, Adder, and Nova"?. They're already yelling at each other for voting for a mech that someone else thinks doesn't need it.

"Avoid the steel shavings storm by putting all agency with the community" is literally the smartest move they could have done here. Because you KNOW, as well as I do, that if they had made the decision themselves, there would be endless seas of whining about how this mech deserved it more than that mech. They are already beginning to form in this thread, and literally every thread about the polls yet. Only reason they haven't exploded into a full flood is because it's the community's vote, and not a unilateral action by PGI.

Hell I would bet cashy money that some of the people posting here would have made threads saying "You should have made a poll to ask us for our opinion. You guys don't play the game as often as we do."

Am I being pessimistic about the community? Maybe, but I've been here for almost three years, and have seen how these forums work. I look at the patch notes, and can predict down to a T what threads will be popping up for the next few weeks. You've been here long enough to know that my hypotheses have a very solid chance of coming true.

Edited by IraqiWalker, 14 July 2015 - 07:17 AM.

[SnagaDance]

IraqiWalker, on 14 July 2015 - 07:14 AM, said:

The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

Or in other words "That!".

[White Bear 84]

^^ Iraqi Pretty much nails it.

Put's the power in the players had to fix size issues they find most important to fix. If your pick doesn't make the cut, tough luck - the community has spoken.

And yeah, if this was a choice that PGI just made and the wrong mech was select, well, all hell would break loose. So smart choice by the devs to make this a community choice

[Kaptain]

Is this still going to happen?

[mikerso]

Kaptain, on 23 April 2016 - 05:36 PM, said:

Is this still going to happen?

Next couple of patches I thought.

[avenger cannon]

I wish we could vote again :C

[xeromynd]

Whyyyyy would you necro this.

There is a forum post for "Short Question, Short Answer"

And now the obligatory:
HEY THIS IS A POST FROM 2015. DO NOT REPLY

[Tarl Cabot]

The forum search sucks, no way to sort by timestamp, etc. I have had searches come up with threads that were 3+ old as the top threads.

[mikerso]

For anyone asking, they are going to do a huge re scale according to russ.

[Hawk819]

mikerso, on 23 April 2016 - 06:39 PM, said:

For anyone asking, they are going to do a huge re scale according to russ.

That should be next patch. . . along with the cute, and some time cuddly Kodiak.

[Felicitatem Parco]

xeromynd, on 23 April 2016 - 06:24 PM, said:

Whyyyyy would you necro this.

There is a forum post for "Short Question, Short Answer"

And now the obligatory:
HEY THIS IS A POST FROM 2015. DO NOT REPLY

This thread is actually quite relavent if you consider the facts that it's one year old and just now coming to fruition, and that rescales are overdue. Face it, a year ago it was decided to perform rescales. Now, they are due within a few patches.

This thread is now deserving some spotlight.

[Kaptain]

Thanks for the info everyone

[Felicitatem Parco]

Hey, the Nova looks less than 60 tons now!

[Zolaz]

The 100 ton version of the Nova gets a little hood.

[Twilight Fenrir]

Zolaz, on 25 April 2016 - 03:41 PM, said:

The 100 ton version of the Nova gets a little hood.

Super Nova is only 90 tons