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[Bregor Edain]

Navid A1, on 07 November 2015 - 02:35 PM, said:

If you want to have a go in the private match... make sure you bring a couple of more guys with you ... like ... a 4v4 or 4v3 or 3v3...

You are required to fill all 24 slots before launching if you have no premium accounts. If you have two premium accounts, you can change those settings and have smaller, even uneven, groups.

I do not know in what timezone you play but I am willing to help you by filling a slot in a private match if it is the EU TZ. I have some banked premium time I am planning to use soon as well.

[Random Carnage]

Be a good mate. Tell them to flee...flee now, and you'll take the MWO hit for them while they get away.

[Narcissistic Martyr]

Excessive Paranoia, on 07 November 2015 - 02:08 PM, said:

I guess it didn't even occur to me that I could gift them some premium time so we could play like that. How does one go about doing this?

If they like the gameplay, I'm not too worried about them being discouraged by the grind. We were all heavy pvpers in a Korean MMO which is about as grindy as you can get.

That said, "Stock mech monday"? League matches? Where are you guys getting these concepts? In all the time I've been playing MWO (off and on since closed beta), I've never seen anything like that...

You can gift premium time through the gift store on the mwo home page.

http://mwomercs.com/...k-mech-mondays/

As for league matches, there's a number of leagues where the best teams in mwo compete for honor and glory. Run Hot or Die is one that is fairly popular. Or was anyways, I've been out of the competitive scene for a few years.

[sycocys]

If you want them to stay for more than a few matches, ante up a few bucks and buy at least one of them and yourself some premium time and do private matches for the first day.

Otherwise as someone else suggested - just have everyone D/L the PTS server. Everyone will be able to get prem, time and any mech they want to try out for testing and learning.

[Haipyng]

I can tell you that I have tried to get several friends who were not MW franchise fans to try and play coop via the group queue. The brutal nature of the group queue and advantages favoring large groups vs small groups will likely put the right off the game forever. Been there, done that a few times, got the t-shirt. Solo queue is the best bet to get them hooked, -and yeah it's not very fun to play solo queue as a duo or quartet.

Edited by Haipyng, 07 November 2015 - 07:41 PM.

[RedThirteen]

Would not wish this game on anyone who has no prior knowledge nor interest in the battletech universe or videogames. GUI is beyond horrid, latency is bad and matchmaking or even finding games is a headache. Mechs aren't taken out with you after you're destroyed. So inter match cooldown period would be met with further frustration. Poor sods will be running into games while wielding stock builds and getting cored within 10 seconds. How can that be fun?

[Excessive Paranoia]

We dropped in the group queue one time and all three were dead within 60 seconds of enemy contact, so I decided to foot the bill for me and one of them to have premium time and spent the rest of the evening dropping in 2v2 and messing around. Probably the best way after all.

Thanks for the tips.

[Excessive Paranoia]

RedThirteen, on 07 November 2015 - 07:30 PM, said:

Would not wish this game on anyone who has no prior knowledge nor interest in the battletech universe or videogames. GUI is beyond horrid, latency is bad and matchmaking or even finding games is a headache. Mechs aren't taken out with you after you're destroyed. So inter match cooldown period would be met with further frustration. Poor sods will be running into games while wielding stock builds and getting cored within 10 seconds. How can that be fun?

Because it's fun... They had a blast and so did I. If you don't like the game, you should probably leave. It never ceases to amaze me how much some of you people complain about the state of the game, yet continue to hang around here to complain more as if it will accomplish some noble task. So much wasted time and energy...

[TLBFestus]

Excessive Paranoia, on 07 November 2015 - 04:49 AM, said:

I'm going to have a couple of friends dropping with me tomorrow for the first time and I'm not sure how to best introduce them to the game. I had thought we'd just group up as a lance and drop together, but I've read a couple of posts in the last few days that has me concerned that would be introducing them straight into hard-mode play. Is the group queue really as brutal as some people seem to think it is, or is that just hyperbole? Also, someone mentioned league games being a much better environment, but I didn't even know we had a league? Any suggestions?

Thanks

It's very simple;

Tell them that to group up and play together that they will be playing in inferior Trial Mechs against experienced players that will mop the floor with them consistently.

If they think that that doesn't sound like fun, tell them that the other option is to play ALONE and hope that you sync drop into the same game on the odd occasion.

You see, here at PGI they care (not one tiny bit) about retaining a meaningful percentage of new players. Only the strong survive.

Edited by TLBFestus, 08 November 2015 - 01:38 AM.