John Archer, on 18 December 2015 - 07:19 AM, said:
All of you have literally given the best and UNDERSTANDABLE explanations that I have seen regarding PSR and Tier advancement.
<insert the handing out of lots of kudos here>
Now with that being said: It appears, based on my several months of casual play, that I will probably never see tier 3.
Anyway, IMHO, PGI really needs to ask the community to write up HOWTO's. You guys explain things in the way that the casual gamer understands. The game needs this.
And staying in Tier 4 isn't necessarily a bad thing.
In tier 4 you play others in tiers 2-5 in the solo queue. If you move up to tier 3, you add in the Tier 1s as well. Depending on what you are trying to do, the Tier 1 players on your team could easily get annoyed with you.
I don't want to think about what competitive Tier 1s would have said about me trudging along at 32kph in my stock urbies for the laughs. Now that they are mastered, and I'm playing faster and more powerful mechs, I have a feeling I'll bump up to Tier 4 before too long, but I honestly don't want to go above tier 3 ever. I have too much fun playing stock mechs and joke builds.