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[1Grimbane]

yeah i play this game for the lulz and because i grew up playing TT battletech and the other games in the franchise..... don't give 2 F*cks about team play most times, i just wanna have fun my way BECAUSE IT'S A GAME

[Wildstreak]

NA off-peak, I figure the following:
During European peak times, maybe players from that server show up for reason I list below.
During Oceanic peak times, maybe players from that server show up for reason I list below.
During NA afternoon, you get mainly people who are not working and probably a lot of the kids. Sometimes I have heard on VOIP someone with a really young voice, younger than about 15 I guess.

I know Europe play is different than NA, I have lately taken to looking for matches on both NA and EUR so to get matches faster. I could see EUR and OCE players doing the same. Maybe OCE play is different too, I played there only one time during the event for it but ping being too high keeps me away.

What do I see in off-peak NA play?
A lot more rolls of 12-4 or worse.
More Lights jetting off at start thinking they are invulnerable.
More abandoning of Assaults.
More chances of one team camping a spot leading to 90% death.

Both off-peak and peak I also see this strange belief where people are, quite often, popping UAVs right near a large group of allies before anyone knows where the enemy is.

[Water Bear]

Why can't it just be that EU doesn't have as many players as NA but the skill levels between the two regions are equal among the population?

For example, not many people play an unpopular game, so you would expect that the highest skill level among players of that game is lower than the highest skill level among players of a more popular game. The same thing could be happening here. In NA MWO is more popular so there are more skilled players around; In EU there are less just because MWO is less popular, not because there are fundamental differences between people.

Edited by Water Bear, 29 October 2015 - 10:19 AM.

[sycocys]

I didn't say one region had better players - I don't know who is logging on from where to even guess at that.

The different times of day against skill levels is something that I can actually draw conclusion on.

[Soultraxx]

Amsro, on 29 October 2015 - 09:28 AM, said:

I would say the main difference between games in peak hours and games during the day is the lower player count causing MM to troll hard.

That is the only sane theory I can come up with.

I think this is a very good theory.

At non NA peak times the playerbase is low so the relief valves open and just maybe we're seeing more lower Tier players in the matches - in my case more 4s and 5s

Just a thought

Edited by Soultraxx, 29 October 2015 - 11:44 AM.

[Catra Lanis]

Soultraxx, on 29 October 2015 - 11:43 AM, said:

I think this is a very good theory.

At non NA peak times the playerbase is low so the relief valves open and just maybe we're seeing more lower Tier players in the matches - in my case more 4s and 5s

Just a thought

But over a suffcient number of matches it should in theory be even (in reality it isn't) if the mm distributed the lower tier players as evenly as possible. It's like it throws all the lower tiers in the same team once the valves are open.

[Lugh]

Catra Lanis, on 29 October 2015 - 11:52 AM, said:

But over a suffcient number of matches it should in theory be even (in reality it isn't) if the mm distributed the lower tier players as evenly as possible. It's like it throws all the lower tiers in the same team once the valves are open.

This happens even during peak prime time hours.

Just this last week I was dropping in a small group of 5 warriors. We kept seeing the same 7ish guys on our team in like 3-4 consecutive drops. They were atrociously bad. We carried them hard in 2 games and couldn't carry hard enough in the other 2 games, the commander I was dropping with requested we wait some time before queing again so that those 7 would be foisted on someone else.

We did and we got a new set of 7 ish guys we saw for like 5-6 drops and they were very good. So before it as 12-8 wins now we were on 12-1, 12-0 12-2 wins.

When you are getting the horns of the matchmaker take a few minutes break and see if you can juggle it up a little.

[Xmith]

I'm no expert at this but, what does it mean when you drop on EU and OC servers with most players having pings in the high 100s to the mid 200s? Is this an indication of where the players are from?

My pings for the EU are around 180 on average. Pings for the OC is around 225 or higher. I have noticed that the majority of the players have pings similar to mine and I'm from NA.

Gameplay seems to be no different when I drop in off peak hours.

The goods and the bads 24/7 as for as I'm concern.

[Triordinant]

sycocys, on 29 October 2015 - 07:03 AM, said:

Sort of ranty, but I just can't understand how it can be so completely bad during the off peak hours. Just purely un-enjoyable to play during the daytime.

Most of them haven't had a drink yet...

[Djinnhammer]

Mudhutwarrior, on 29 October 2015 - 09:30 AM, said:

They are blind to anything else thats good about the game. You can see clearly here in their posting like there is only one way to play. Get good scrub kinda groupthink.

Kinda ironic statement there sir, as the prosolos think the same way only in reverse.....

The game is good when both teams are working together and there is lots of communication. Interplays happen, flanking moves, attacks and retreats-shame that doesn't happen much in solo Q.
I hate it during euro peak hours-I'm from the UK myself and I often stay up on my days off just to enjoy playing more-the NA players TALK MORE, they understand what teams are and how to do teamwork better it seems. The euros just seem to all go Johnny Rambo and solo it up in silence (this is the worst part of it)...especially in CW matches where solo mentality is the single biggest factor in getting stomped.

Yet it's easier to complain on the forums about it isn't it?

[Clownwarlord]

Yeah its horrible because MM doesn't have the pool to build a better match. So this is why PGI allows you to open up other servers other than NA to help increase your balanced play. So try the other servers during NA off peak time. For me I sometimes go over to Euro servers during that time because my ping is with in reason during off NA peak time.

[Thorqemada]

The Kurita Way of fighting is way more rewarding gameplay than Davion-Fire-Lines where Mike Mustardman is told to shot "Target XYZ" from his "High-Ground".

Aside of that on "Low Peak Times" the chance is higher to stay with certain Players that do not give a good Team synergy - so wait ~7 minutes to break up the Playerpool-Trap you may be in.

Edited by Thorqemada, 29 October 2015 - 04:02 PM.

[Mycrus]

NA and EU got nuffin on oceanic pug.life