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El Bandito, on 04 December 2015 - 06:35 AM, said:

You forgot to add the Arctic Cheater. Wow, that makes 30% of the current Clan mechs top tier. I wish 30% of the IS mechs were top tier.

Hell, I can guarantee that I will be on top of the scoreboard using even Warhawks, cause Wubhawk or Lurmhawk are damn effective even in T1 play.



That's basically CW drop mechanic. PGI should integrate it with pug drops.

Nope. CW drop mechanic doesn't make you earn the additional mech. You get 4 mechs regardless of how well or how poorly you play. If you play well you may need only one. With the 'earned' additional spawns you can easily have more than your 4 if you are doing really well dying and playing in 'suboptimal' mechs. That way when you have nothing but a 3 ML locust and wrack up 500 damage you can always spawn another one.

A couple things need to happen to make it viable:
1) every mech must have a spawn value (pgi can provide this number from x to z where the number = the aproxiamate BV under their current system for each mech) expect 1 ML 5 mg spiders and locusts to cost say a measly 100 while super mech performer DW cost 800 and so on.
2) It won't be possible to always spawn the best of the best mech at any given time. For CW you might get 800 spawn points for all 4 mechs and 2 might cost you 400, but if you do well you could earn enough to spawn the last two as well as some additional beyond that.
3) This allows the clan mechs to be as powerful as the lore mongers amongst us know them to be. Why? They will cost more points to spawn. And you can then lay to rest any qualms about what's better than what, as PGI using database metrics can set the spawn value for every mech in the game based on historical data. This means that the 3 PPC awesome with 5ML that currently isn't doing well for EVERYONE may be cheaper to spawn than the 4 UAC5 King Crab with 2ML. Everyone will have let's say 5 slots that they can unlock for cbills for their spawnable mechs. This way you can have your light, light hunter, LRM boat, etc all ready to go as needed.

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JC Daxion, on 03 December 2015 - 09:30 PM, said:

Please read the entire post, before you rant......



How long have IS been saying that Clanners had a bit of an advantage.. Not huge, but top mechs, all people that are claners with a bit of an edge..

Personally, i never, ever blamed, any loss on a clan, or mech,... And honestly i run what people say are teir 3 or soo... Pretty much the only mechs i ever run that people said were top, sure i have run a tdr-5SS, and misery but most of my mechs most say are all mid range, according to the top guys..

Now, a bit of a change, and god forbid i loos a tiny bit of maneuvering for loosing a ST, and WAAAAAAAAAA

Now, the talk is, all the top players, are all switching to IS.. I don't get it.. Don't you want a challenge? Don't you want to run a mech that is maybe even and still rule???

To me, if i was a top guy,, I really wouldn't want a nerf... But what i would really want is to take my awesome 12 man, and destroy, 15 or 20 man teams... But to complain that if i loose a torso, and get a bit slower,, and then blame it on that??

come on clanners....keep your clan group, and run a single weekend and give PGI some real data Or is it, that possibly you don't think you can win?

I'm sorry. but to me that is just lame.. If all the top groups are really top groups, on clan side.. why don't you run clan for this weekend.. Not, im going IS, cause i don't have an advantage..

I just don't get it. Please don't puss out, and swap to IS, because you think they now are the better side..

Is one bad weekend, all that bad??? If the top clans, all of a sudden get owned.. Don't ya think that would be better for the game in the long run, verse saying... Well clans suck, im going IS... Just to win?? If the top guys just get owned.. Don't ya think that would be much better data, then all them just rolling to IS, just to get more wins???

I am not calling out anyone, or any team, or and clan.. but i am saying what i have heard through the grape vine.. and to me.. i just find it very lame....


If i am wrong.. Please post why... and if you are a top group staying clan... I salute you

I think it's because clan XL and clan lasers and clan heat and and the skills got all nerfed at one time while most IS got additional quirks to lessen the blow in terms of structure and mobility so it seems like it's really bad.

It could be, but it may not be. I can see why people view it in such a harsh light tho.