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[Triordinant]

Render, on 28 October 2015 - 11:07 AM, said:

There is something strange going on here.
Where are the flamers? Where are the naysayers? Where poopers? The haters? The instigaters? The candle stick makers?

They're hanging out with the butcher and the baker.

[Brethgar]

I like it. I am frequently willing to drop in a variety of mechs and quit a match after I die so having this list of mechs is a cool idea. Also if you are working on leveling a mechs you could only put that one in or three variants.

Very cool idea.

[GRiPSViGiL]

Great idea. PGI will ignore it or fail on its implementation and need to re-do it.

[TWIAFU]

Render, on 28 October 2015 - 11:07 AM, said:

There is something strange going on here.
Where are the flamers? Where are the naysayers? Where poopers? The haters? The instigaters? The candle stick makers?

They are not at work reading the forums, they are home playing now.

[Shae Starfyre]

There is no downside to this (as long as Mechs are not locked - the 3 remaining after death) except the one you played, of course, if you dropped to move on.

Even someone picking all Mechs of the same type/Class or identical ones (Sarlic), it would just fall into a single picker scenario, as was mentioned, would still result in faster game time.

Poor man's drop ship!

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Edited by Aphoticus, 28 October 2015 - 12:53 PM.

[kegodoom]

Really good idea OP!!!

[Navid A1]

Render, on 28 October 2015 - 11:07 AM, said:

There is something strange going on here.
Where are the flamers? Where are the naysayers? Where poopers? The haters? The instigaters? The candle stick makers?

Maybe because that is a good idea... dont you think?


umm....
I did not know people who give constructive feedback have so many nicknames !!

Edited by Navid A1, 28 October 2015 - 12:57 PM.

[Shae Starfyre]

We have to work too hard to get this one to K-Town, I can't find it yet. I mean, not even a good joke will derail this:

"Why did the chicken cross the road?"
"To find an idiot!"
"Knock, Knock"
"Who's there?"
"Chicken!"

[PholkLorr]

Someone with twitter please post this idea to Russ thanks.

[Bobzilla]

They'll just say to pick the lowest % (always lights).

[MeiSooHaityu]

Bobzilla, on 29 October 2015 - 02:48 AM, said:

They'll just say to pick the lowest % (always lights).

That's why I'd want the ability to assign a rank (level of priority) to each weight class.

If I really like heavies, I may assign it first priority, maybe mediums second, assaults third, and lights last.

I'm not saying you wouldn't end up launching in lights frequently, but the matchmaker would at least know you want to launch in a light as a last resort because you assigned other classes more priority.

I think it could help.

[Shae Starfyre]

MeiSooHaityu, on 29 October 2015 - 03:39 AM, said:

That's why I'd want the ability to assign a rank (level of priority) to each weight class.

If I really like heavies, I may assign it first priority, maybe mediums second, assaults third, and lights last.

I'm not saying you wouldn't end up launching in lights frequently, but the matchmaker would at least know you want to launch in a light as a last resort because you assigned other classes more priority.

I think it could help.

Not to mention that it would even things out down the road and people would start getting their priority Mechs as evenly as other Mechs, and games would be more balanced.

[PholkLorr]

Get this idea to the top of the thread and get this to Russ.

Thanks.

[Zeoraimer]

I like this solo queue Ready Deck idea.

As was mentioned before, at worse, you put one mech only in your Ready Deck, and you have exactly what you have right now, though I'm pretty sure you have many people who would put in 1/1/1/1.

I wonder though, what causes longer wait times for MM, adherence to 4/4/4/4, or PSR balancing?

[Zen Idiot]

i'm just another one who logged in to like the OP

Edited by ZenIdiot, 15 November 2015 - 04:32 PM.

[Peenutts]

Logged in to +1 this.
Good idea.

[jonfett]

+1
I was just thinking this last night, as am finding the matchmaking super-slow at all times. I'll pick a different weight class to see if that ever makes a difference. If I currently have a heavy selected, and I'm not getting a match, I'll select an assault, and try and find a match. if that still doesn't work, I'll run through a light and then a medium to see if one of those get's a match.

Edited by jonfett, 15 November 2015 - 08:02 PM.

[PaeuxP22]

Great plan, in an ideal world it would be used in combination with a battle points score for a chassis/player to make way more balanced teams (though there would still be 12-0 stomps and qq a plenty) this would mean if you only liked heavies you could pick 4 and the one that fit the match best would be selected, I know I would probably rather see a Stormcrow than an Orion most times