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[WizardofOz]

Hi,

great patch. I really enjoy the voting system. The downside is that I am not able to play maps that I played not so often. And for some reason people like Skrimish more than Assault. I like that Assault mode due the fact that there is more than one option to win.

I would prefer to add another game mode.

Maybe it would be a great idea, that player are able to vote for a (or two) map and a gaming mode before going into the match making. So I will find other people loving my game style instead of being pushed to play the same maps and game modes over and over again.

[Emmett Fetladral]

WizardofOz, on 05 November 2015 - 06:57 AM, said:

Hi,

great patch. I really enjoy the voting system. The downside is that I am not able to play maps that I played not so often. And for some reason people like Skrimish more than Assault. I like that Assault mode due the fact that there is more than one option to win.

I would prefer to add another game mode.

Maybe it would be a great idea, that player are able to vote for a (or two) map and a gaming mode before going into the match making. So I will find other people loving my game style instead of being pushed to play the same maps and game modes over and over again.

Voting for a game mode before starting the matchmaking was possible before the patch. Mape voting is okay i think, apart form the smal time frame.

[Rejarial Galatan]

voting is killing MWO. it has seriously pissed off a HUGE number of players.

[CainenEX]

Rejarial Galatan, on 06 November 2015 - 10:01 PM, said:

voting is killing MWO. it has seriously pissed off a HUGE number of players.

Personally I liked it. I think it's pissing off a visible minority. As I dev I would just start removing "choice" from the player in terms of match making and focus on making sure that wait times are low.

[Rejarial Galatan]

Minority? Look, it's pissing a large number of people off, not all post here. It's hurting the game. That simple. Just because u skirmish only does not mean that the rest of us like it.

[Pyroth]

Rejarial Galatan, on 08 November 2015 - 02:34 PM, said:

Minority? Look, it's pissing a large number of people off, not all post here. It's hurting the game. That simple. Just because u skirmish only does not mean that the rest of us like it.

Yea minority. I just see the same few players posting the same complaints over and over and trying to pass themselves off as the Majority. Fact is, the majority is getting what they want because they win the votes. The average player just wants to log in and shoot stuff and doesn't really care about all the other stuff.

[Thorqemada]

Speaking of true Majority -> I think BOTH Map and Mode voting should be REMOVED (138 votes [56.79%])
http://mwomercs.com/...age__mode__show

Edited by Thorqemada, 08 November 2015 - 03:50 PM.

[gloowa]

Thorqemada, on 08 November 2015 - 03:50 PM, said:

Speaking of true Majority -> I think BOTH Map and Mode voting should be REMOVED (138 votes [56.79%])
http://mwomercs.com/...age__mode__show

Wow. 138. MWO must be doing worse then i thought if 138 people is "majority". Get a grip on reality please.

[Tuis Ryche]

CainenEX, on 08 November 2015 - 11:41 AM, said:

Personally I liked it. I think it's pissing off a visible minority. As I dev I would just start removing "choice" from the player in terms of match making and focus on making sure that wait times are low.

You like it (voting, i.e. choice) even though it doesn't seem to be really reducing matchmaking times, then say devs should remove choice from players. What the **** are you arguing? If it's reducing any matchmaking times, then it's because the matchmaker is ignoring mode preferences, shoving assault/conquest people into modes they don't want to play. Awesome. People are getting matched faster into modes they don't want to play. The fuckitall skirmisher might not mind and might even defend this, because it serves their interests, but the rest apparently can get bent.

gloowa, on 08 November 2015 - 08:56 PM, said:

Wow. 138. MWO must be doing worse then i thought if 138 people is "majority". Get a grip on reality please.

That's enough to get a map/mode selected as it is, whether you like it or not.

[Rejarial Galatan]

Gloowa and Pyroth let me let you in on a little known to you apparently business saying, that has, in fact, proven far more accurate than most people like: For every ONE person who vocally complains about a service or product, there are ten THOUSAND more who are equally angered or irritated but do not speak up."

Those who, like you, call us the minority are the mouth breathing dipsticks who refuse to learn how to do more than treat this game like an over grown Call of Duty. I am sorry you are to naive to understand this, or perhaps its blatant refusal, as the current system finally is bowing to your lowest common denominator branch of shoot anything and everything, to hell with the objectives and to hell with those who WANT said objective bottom feeding mewling quim tossers. SO crawl back into your cesspits will ya.

[gloowa]

Rejarial Galatan, on 08 November 2015 - 09:36 PM, said:

Gloowa and Pyroth let me let you in on a little known to you apparently business saying, that has, in fact, proven far more accurate than most people like: For every ONE person who vocally complains about a service or product, there are ten THOUSAND more who are equally angered or irritated but do not speak up."

Those who, like you, call us the minority are the mouth breathing dipsticks who ...

aaaaand were finished here.

[Tordin]

The only good thing about it is. Faster search times. With a ping of 40 at average I have gotten into matches just around 10-20 seconds later. Never happened before, not even in LIGHT que. Now I dont know if removing the voting system AND have the same great search times is possible.

[Rejarial Galatan]

Tordin, on 09 November 2015 - 03:32 PM, said:

The only good thing about it is. Faster search times. With a ping of 40 at average I have gotten into matches just around 10-20 seconds later. Never happened before, not even in LIGHT que. Now I dont know if removing the voting system AND have the same great search times is possible.

which is FINE if you enjoy whack-a-mole with a reload function. oh excuse me, my mind melted, i mean battlefield...crap...call of duty...crap... oh right skirmish

[50 50]

Can't believe this is your first post Wizard!
Not that everyone does visit the forums mind you.


The man objective was to speed up the wait times for the match maker.
Done.
By shifting the mode selection to after the team was formed, it has removed one of the complexities of the process.
The map vote being a brand new option is nice to have. Some maps are seeing higher use when they pop up, but my impression is that the mix of maps and modes is that it is about the same as it was before.
Still get multiples of the same map in a row.
The modes might favour Skirmish and Assault but I have played through numerous Conquest modes as well.

Should the vote be removed, I believe it could be left as a hidden random option unavailable to players at all and decided after the teams have formed. Have to accept whatever it pulls out of the hat in that scenario compared to having some choice in the matter.
I would like to see the results still display, the map picture and animated mode is nice.

The other option is to remove the match maker entirely and put it in the players hands.
Display a list of battlezones showing the map, mode and tier.
Players group up (or not) and pick the one they want each time.

[MechWarrior3671771]

Tired of every drop being Laser Vomit on Cold Skirmish. Its MWO dumbed-down.

Revert to random modes, random maps. Or I will find a more intelligent game.

[MechWarrior3671771]

"Now I dont know if removing the voting system AND have the same great search times is possible."

Consider that you will keep the voting system and go back to the old wait times.

Lots of players who like Assault and Conquest are sick of playing Cold Skirmish.

They will leave if this the mode voting stays, and the player population will shrink even further.

So your future is HPG Skirmish 20 times in a row, with 10 min wait times.

[Rejarial Galatan]

Whack-a-mole mode is killing it for real tactical combat.

[Mazzyplz]

at the very least you can remove map voting because it does nothing to alleviate wait times.
nothing at all.

it's just a wheelchair for when your crutches just aren't enough

when you just suck at managing weapon groups and managing heat and keeping situational awareness

[Aedwynn]

gloowa, on 08 November 2015 - 08:56 PM, said:

Wow. 138. MWO must be doing worse then i thought if 138 people is "majority". Get a grip on reality please.

Since you are the only person opposing, something tells me you are the one with reality issues. Well, that's not first time when you express "Majority's opinion" on forums. Alone.

[Lord Auriel]

eh 50 50, you DO realize that we alreadyhave some statistics that very clearly show how BAD the variety is now? your personal feeing is wrong, that's why statistics were invented