The event was nice, free stuff for participation always welcome. I needed the cobra light green even though im not a green man but lime man. So now i have one more colour and ill have a buy a new mech for it. But wow this event rewards lol they needed to get people back in the game didnt they!
Sandpit, on 28 November 2015 - 01:28 AM, said:
Can you be a little more articulate in what exactly is "f**kover" about the voting system?
ill bite because i played last 2 days after being told it wasnt so bad anymore more than once.
TLDR: this could have been handled better without implementing a voting system at all. Weighted system is a sham. You're still taken out of your tier. Repalce MM with Servers with settings and half of mwo problems get fixed instantly, content is doubled/trippled. My hatred for
playing the same map again has been replaced with
the people who don't wan't to play the game mode you are on and just do whatever(not that i blame them).
First: the vast majority of players dont like choices taken away, duh. Thats a no brainer obviously, but reading the forum and poll will give you hard numbers.
Second: The first iteration of the voting system was a disaster. I believe it was done on purpose for the second iteration to take place. It did'nt work, you only got the same 4 map and 1 game mode. kinda like fps eSport though.
Third: The second iteration of the voting system is a sham. The weighted system defeat the purpose of a voting system. Think about it people ffs. It gives you an illusion of control and choice of which you don't have. Then when you don't get your vote you get a multiplier, effectively removing someone from the vote and people can and will game this. So much bogs last 2 days i can't see it anymore, again. I guess next week will be nothing but another map and so on. In comparison to the first voting system of not a bad one, which is why i think the first one was done on purpose.
Fourth: The purpose of the voting system is to take the attention away from the removal of choices. You feel like you can pick the winning ticket in the hat now. Vote and see if you are lucky people! Because it's just that, luck or misfortune. The random system was just better at doing the same job.
Fifth: It does not work as advertised. The waiting time got out of control when the tier system got implemented. Im taken out of my tier all the time. I know this to be a fact because of the forumers i see in my games. That said, id rather have T3 T2 T1. T5 and T4 can't and should not be mixed. Once you get t3 the system should be made so that you are good to go. I still got time to browse the forum every other game i played.
sixth: It removes a big part of the game. I really wonder if they planned the obsolescence of half the maps. They must have, they said the game will be all about eSport and eSport in fps means removing most of the game content, only use the best and easiest class/weapon/
maps. Catering to the lowest common denominator.
All in all, you don't actualy chose anything, you don't get to play all maps, you're forced to play with people who don't want to play a certain game mode and just do whatever. The quality and fun of the game has taken a dive. The voting system replace a random or true rotation of map/mode.
This is exacerbed by the fact that a match maker don't work half as good as servers with different
settings. You don't need tier with a server system and with server you DO have the choice of game mode/map/people you play with and you get to consistantly play with the same people and either learn from them of teach them. We would be free to double the content already in game with server setting, we could create era, only have cold map, only have lights or assault server. The game would be richer.
They however did this at the right time, the steam release should replace a lot of people.
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