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[Slow and Decrepit]

I've been trying to get a match there but there's just not enough people! Perhaps a accidental problem with all the live servers for a few hours would get PGI the info they seek. I would really like to try out some stuff, but there's not enough interested parties to make it a go. Really sad considering every time PGI changes something, they get beat over the head with the PTS!

[WarZ]

I'm in the same boat, been trying nearly non stop for the last 30 minutes, searching ... not one game.

I was very excited to try things out, but all i'm doing is getting really really bored and annoyed.

[SgtMagor]

for some reason on the test server my Crab, and some (L) mechs are not on the PTS, since I wanted to test certain variants I just gave up.

[Night Thastus]

Boy, if they had rewards for joining the PTS, perhaps more people would go on.

[Slow and Decrepit]

Yep. There's a good part of the players that have just about every mech in the game, and pretty much know what each mech will do, so they don't give a rip.....

Edited by beleneagle, 17 October 2015 - 02:40 PM.

[Cranial Enigma]

Bishop did tweet about this issue; however, the response he got was pretty sad. Russ basically told him to grab friends and just play private matches. Not much we can do really.

[WarZ]

Even so, if you cant get a single game on PTS on a saturday evening in a 45 minute window, thats a sad condemnation of the MWO player population.

[Slow and Decrepit]

Yep, sad for sure. I think part of the problem is that Russ told everyone that Paul is the one "balancing things", which just about killed it for everyone that remembers.......

[WarZ]

Okay so this game can well and truly F ! itself. I've been on and off the test server for 3 of the last 4 hours tonight ...

NOT ONE F'ING MATCH !!!

Saturday night prime time.

This is almost enough to make me refund my IIc collection. And I actually mean that.

It is in effect just another example of the piss poor management and development this game continues to suffer through, and make me suffer through.

Seriously just F it.

[Palor]

A PTS event maybe?

[oldradagast]

beleneagle, on 17 October 2015 - 03:03 PM, said:

Yep, sad for sure. I think part of the problem is that Russ told everyone that Paul is the one "balancing things", which just about killed it for everyone that remembers.......

Well, that and the staggering idiocy of needing to download a second copy of the ENTIRE game to run the test server.

Hell, I can speak from personal work experience that such a thing is not needed and is a lousy way to run a test environment. So, I've got better things to do with my time than download the entire game - again - just so we can see how Paul "balanced" things. The PTS notes have already told me enough - just more random, ham-fisted mechanics and a refusal to address the actual problem.

[Sjorpha]

oldradagast, on 17 October 2015 - 05:39 PM, said:

Well, that and the staggering idiocy of needing to download a second copy of the ENTIRE game to run the test server.

Hell, I can speak from personal work experience that such a thing is not needed and is a lousy way to run a test environment. So, I've got better things to do with my time than download the entire game - again - just so we can see how Paul "balanced" things. The PTS notes have already told me enough - just more random, ham-fisted mechanics and a refusal to address the actual problem.

Wait a minute, are you saying that all those posts/rants by you in the PTS forum were pure theorycrafting? You seriously haven't been playing it and still think you're qualified to give more "feedback" than just about anyone else posting there?

Jesus F Christ I knew there was something fishy, thanks for letting me know. Reading posts by theorywarriors is wasted time and now I can save some.

(and I agree it's a problem that you can't find matches, but it's not difficult to hook up a private match through some of the larger teamspeak servers if you actually want to do some community testing work for the game.)

Edited by Sjorpha, 17 October 2015 - 06:01 PM.

[Kira Onime]

Sjorpha, on 17 October 2015 - 05:58 PM, said:

Wait a minute, are you saying that all those posts/rants by you in the PTS forum were pure theorycrafting? You seriously haven't been playing it and still think you're qualified to give more "feedback" than just about anyone else posting there?

Some people don't need to jump in a pile of feces to know it's a pile of feces.

[Sjorpha]

Kira Onime, on 17 October 2015 - 06:09 PM, said:

Some people don't need to jump in a pile of feces to know it's a pile of feces.

Some other people don't mistake cheap platitudes for valid arguments.

[Homeskilit]

I feel like there should be set times it is up and running. Have it up for 1 hour 3x a day during the 3 highest peak hours. Then give further incentive to play by allowing all cbills earned to transfer to your main account at the end of the PTS period.

[Mycrus]

Too busy washing my hair...