Bishop Steiner, on 07 December 2015 - 09:46 AM, said:
So perhaps, if you stop taking every comment that disagrees with you about Light Mechs as a personal attack, and stop calling people idiots, they might, maybe, just maybe, treat you a tad better in return.
So you get to ascribe false opinions and false statements to me, but I can't call you an idiot for doing so? Is that correct? Even when the things you ascribe to me clearly are idiotic and basically amounts to you calling me an idiot?
Let me point out what my "No, you idiot" reply was in actual reply to:
Bishop Steiner, on 05 December 2015 - 12:38 PM, said:
so, instead you want them to post non canon stuff, like IDK...Lights are supposed ot be your front line Assault Mechs?
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But hey, I guess Bradleys, Humvees and DPVs should be considered front line main battle forces?
Where in my post did I even remotely suggest that anything of the kind should happen? Where in my post did I even remotely suggest that's even close to my line of thinking? That's you, all you, going full r****d on what was a rather harmless opinion post about their characterization of lights as Scouts.
So after that exasperated opening I go on to explain what I actually meant, in the hope you'd see that it wasn't at all what you misinterpreted it as:
stjobe, on 06 December 2015 - 01:14 AM, said:
I want them to give people reasons to play lights and mediums, and I want those reasons to reflect on their game page.
Scouting isn't a role especially suited to light 'mechs; in fact it isn't a role at all. It mostly isn't needed, and in the few situations where it is needed, your weight class makes no difference - an assault's sensor contact is as good as a lights.
I just wish the guys thinking scouting is a role worth playing in MWO would try it for a week or so.
Yes, I do think that calling lights Scouts is doing them a disservice; scouting isn't something that is needed in MWO, nor is it anything that lights are especially suited to.
Of the 45 Inner Sphere light variants, two are forced into the "scout role" because they don't have the hardpoints to do anything else; the LCT-1V and the SDR-5V. Not-so-incidentally, they are also widely regarded as the worst 'mechs in the game.
There may be an argument for the ECM-capable lights making good scouts due to them being able to use the ECM to scout unseen, but (apart from the fact that scouting's just not needed) that's just another four variants (LCT-PB, COM-2D, SDR-5D, RVN-3L), and their ECM can just as effectively be used offensively, e.g for sniping, or defensively to cover the team's advance.
So that makes two (or six) Scouts out of 45; 4% at worst, 13% at best. The rest are more accurately described as Strikers, Snipers, Brawlers, or even Skirmishers.
But that part you just ignored and went off all huffy-puffy because I called you an idiot when YOU jumped on me.
You should take a good long look in the mirror Bishop; and have a good long think about whether you or I started this little lover's quarrel off.
In the end I do love you dearly, but you
are an arse sometimes; and this is one of those times.
And before you say it: Yes, I freely admit that so am I, sometimes.
Edited by stjobe, 07 December 2015 - 02:11 PM.