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[White Bear 84]

Greetings mechwarriors,

As a highly active tweeter, I am going to dabble in something I thought would be useful for the community. While many users have twitter and actively engage with Russ and the team via twitter, a lot of other users do not.

What I am proposing is a location for players to post up questions/suggestions that I and/or other tweeters can share with Russ and the developers that are online.

Twitter obviously differs to the forums, first and foremost being much shorter there is less time for vitriol and QQ, secondly Q can be quick and clear, allowing for a better response. Now at this stage, what I am proposing is just a bit of a test as I am interested to see how it works out.

I would hope to use this in conjunction with the twitter newsfeed thread set up by Raubwurst, whereby twitter can provide an enhanced medium for community feedback..

http://mwomercs.com/...itter-newsfeed/

Now for the guidelines;

1. When posting, pls identify who your question is directed to, although please note we would make the choice of who finally receives the tweet.

2. Tweets will only be directed to the following accounts;

- @MechWarriorF2P
- @russ_bullock (President - Piranha Games Inc.)
- @Paul_Inouye (Lead Designer at Piranha Games Inc.)
- @Matt_Neutron (Game Producer Robot)
- @caeten (Mike Forst - Piranha Games - IT Manager)
- @LaurenBamlett (Texture Artist at Piranha Games)
- @AlexGGarden (Piranha Games Support Lead)

3. Tweets will only be shared if they are seen to be constructive and/or beneficial to the games development and community needs. No flaming, baiting, complaining or similar nonsense.

4. If we get lots of similar tweets these will likely be grouped into one conversation (if it gets off the ground)

5. Remember that tweets are limited in length, so keep your question short (140 characters tops) otherwise we wont share it.

6. I am doing this at my own discretion, any flaming or grief for not sharing a tweet or anything else will be promptly reported. I am not here to put up with player QQ.

7. This is NOT a discussion thread - so we can keep it focused on community Q. Any posts that appear to be off topic will be reported as spam/off-topic.

8. If you like, start the tweet with your forum name so we can have a more personal approach to the Q!

That's about it for now! Ask away!

Edited by White Bear 84, 22 June 2016 - 06:04 PM.

[Bluefalcon13]

Russ, can the forum mods get power, and authorization to distribute custom-forum only titles that the user cannot change?

For example: anti90d would get the dorito warrior title, for his love of chips. All he ever talks about are freaking chips. Someone should give him a ride to the corner store so he doesn't have to petal his bicycle over to it. That way he can buy a couple bags....

[Scout Derek]

Bluefalcon13, on 22 June 2016 - 06:13 PM, said:

Russ, can the forum mods get power, and authorization to distribute custom-forum only titles that the user cannot change?

For example: anti90d would get the dorito warrior title, for his love of chips. All he ever talks about are freaking chips. Someone should give him a ride to the corner store so he doesn't have to petal his bicycle over to it. That way he can buy a couple bags....

I can actually answer this right now. Only Tina or another PGI staff member can do so, you just have to PM her about it... or ask me to tell Tina for a quicker response.

[El Bandito]

@russ_bullock Shouldn't ER/PPCs just get 30-40% base velocity increase already, instead of putting them as quirks on select few mechs just so those weapons are useable?

@Paul_Inouye IMO machine gun CoF removal/reduction is the easiest way to make the weapon viable, without resorting to ridiculous RoF or range quirks. 6MG Spider is so 2013.

Edited by El Bandito, 22 June 2016 - 06:24 PM.

[Felbombling]

@Russ

You mentioned months ago in a Town Hall that you were going to help the Summoner with inventive quirks. What happened with that... coming soon?

[Bluefalcon13]

Procurator Derek, on 22 June 2016 - 06:21 PM, said:

I can actually answer this right now. Only Tina or another PGI staff member can do so, you just have to PM her about it... or ask me to tell Tina for a quicker response.

Can you? That would be awesome. Link her to this post so she knows it comes from the unwashed masses!

[Scout Derek]

Bluefalcon13, on 22 June 2016 - 06:31 PM, said:

Can you? That would be awesome. Link her to this post so she knows it comes from the unwashed masses!

Okay, I will.

[CK16]

I asked it on Twitter already however if you have his ear right now.


@Russ_bullock what about doing a light pack for both IS and Clan, 2 mechs each starting at $30 and add-ons at $15 steps?

Edited by CK16, 22 June 2016 - 06:43 PM.

[adamts01]

Why do you hate the MLX? A UAC quirk?

[White Bear 84]

adamts01, on 22 June 2016 - 07:04 PM, said:

Why do you hate the MLX? A UAC quirk?

More specific on the UAC quirk - just for MLX?

[Felbombling]

@Russ

Hey... how about extending the Summer Sol. event a day due to the mini-map rumblings of the community... otherwise known as the mini-map-freakocalypse?

[adamts01]

White Bear 84, on 22 June 2016 - 07:11 PM, said:

More specific on the UAC quirk - just for MLX?

It currently has the typical UAC quirk. With lots of armor removed from the already squishy, slow mech you can fit 2 tons of ammo and a UAC 2 on it. Even with 100% reliability and Unlimited free ammo it would still be a bad build. That mech has been crap for so long, they need to look at the builds people actually run on it and give it a little help with those. Maybe some PPC quirks, serious laser duration and better cooling. It'll never be great, but it should have something to make it not laughable.

[Juodas Varnas]

White Bear 84, on 22 June 2016 - 05:46 PM, said:

3. Tweets will only be shared if they are seen to be constructive and/or beneficial to the games development and community needs. No flaming, baiting, complaining or similar nonsense.

Welp, i'm out of ideas then.

[Kaio-Kerensky x10]

White Bear 84, on 22 June 2016 - 05:46 PM, said:

Twitter obviously differs to the forums, first and foremost being much shorter there is less time for vitriol and QQ

Have you ever used Twitter ever

Also why can't people just ask those people on Twitter themselves

[White Bear 84]

Zharot, on 22 June 2016 - 07:32 PM, said:

Have you ever used Twitter ever

Also why can't people just ask those people on Twitter themselves

Trying to figure out if you are actually serious asking either of these questions.

[Juodas Varnas]

Zharot, on 22 June 2016 - 07:32 PM, said:

Have you ever used Twitter ever

Also why can't people just ask those people on Twitter themselves

Probably because Russ ignores people without any Twitter street-cred.

[Kaio-Kerensky x10]

White Bear 84, on 22 June 2016 - 07:35 PM, said:

Trying to figure out if you are actually serious asking either of these questions.

Twitter is where people go to get mad about things.

[White Bear 84]

Zharot, on 22 June 2016 - 07:42 PM, said:

Twitter is where people go to get mad about things.

No, people never get mad on twitter, that is just a myth.. ..never.
Ok, yes this is true to a point, but from my experience bar a few unwanted trollscum many of the tweets regard MWO have been focused on improvement, opinions on good/bad features.. ..overall a good experience.. ..that is why I hope this works out - there is the side of the twitter ecology that focuses on constructive tweets...

[Scout Derek]

Zharot, on 22 June 2016 - 07:42 PM, said:

Twitter is where people go to get mad about things.

So why do people come to the forums then instead of Twitter? Just saying.

To keep on topic,

@Russ

Have you guys ever considered taking a week off from everything related to the game in terms of content and balancing and just straight out play with the community either in incognito Alt accounts, or just all in all the community? I'm not talking just one or two of you, I'm talking about ALL of you. From the Top of the branch to the lowest branch in your company.

Edited by Procurator Derek, 23 June 2016 - 02:13 PM.

[Lupis Volk]

@russ_bullock Why are you and the rest of PGI ignoring the old rule "if it ain't broken don't fix it"