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War of Attrition

Idea for a new gamemode called "War of Attrition":

War of Attrition
Basically the idea of this gamemode is to set an incentive using your whole Mech pool, not only a handful of chassis. Make the use of the Mechs more attractive and get rarely played variants back onto the battlefield.

You activate the mode "War of Attrition" via a switch in the window where you currently select the game mode.

Checkbox below the game mode selections
Once activated you just drop into a normal solo pug game. So it is possible to play with others without the activated option. The main point of the game mode is that once a Mech has been destroyed in a game it is "locked" for public games as long as the "War of Attrition" is activated. Every destroyed Mech thus reduces your choices.

The option is not availabe in CW where you will basically select and play with your dropdeck as usual and also not relevant in Private Matches where all of your Mechs should be playable.

Refits and re-equips should always be possible even for the "locked" Mechs. It should not be the goal to have all Mechs fully equipped in the hangar (though I like the idea - the translator) the goal should be to play all Mechs.

Now why play a "War of Attrition"? As long as the option is activated, all Mechs used and destroyed count towards special achievements which reward certain bonuses (as always). Once you remove the option the couting starts with zero again.

Example of fitting achievements would be
"War of Attrition Level 1": you used 4 Mechs which were destroyed
"War of Attrition Level 2": you used 10 Mechs which were destroyed
"War of Attrition Level 3": you used 20 Mechs which were destroyed
"War of Attrition Level 4": you used 30 Mechs which were destroyedetc.

Of course there should be rewards which should grow with the level. I propose giving the rewards more then once for the smaller achievements, to motivate players to play the mode more often.

I would also like to have titles that could be rewarded when you use your whole hangar in a "War of Attrition". The bigger your hangar the higher and more important the achievable title, e.g.

From 4 Mechs to under 12 Mechs: "Hero of a lance"
From 12 Mechs to under 36 Mechs: "Hero of a company"
From 37 Mechs to under 108 Mechs: "Hero of a bataillon"
From 108 Mechs to under 200 Mechs: "Hero of a regiment"
From 200 Mechs and up: "Hero of an army"

Hero - of the Lights These titles could also be linked to the achievements, to keep things simple.

This whole idea is just that - a simple idea with not too much flesh on it. It is basically the skeleton of a new mode which should be expanded.
It was important to me to keep it as simple as possible so it could theoretically be implemented without too much programming effort.

Optional features for a later implementation:

• Rankings (K/D, W/L, avg. matchscore) where only players with an activated "War of Attrition" compete which will keep the lists more dynamic[/color]
  
• personal statistics[/color]
  
• cbills and/or GXP-boosts for this gamemode[/color]

Duerwiss (translation by Warchild)

Edited by Duerwiss, 04 August 2015 - 08:53 AM.