Hit the Deck, on 26 April 2016 - 05:25 PM, said:
Balance what we have now until people are satisfied with it
MWO will never get new tech if it follows this.
There will never,
NEVER be a time where people are satisfied with the current balance. It is just PGI chasing its tail, appeasing one group of players and frustrating some other group of players before spending another several months to do it again. A good portion of players are always dissatisfied with the current balance, albeit it is different players at different times. It is an ethereal goal that will never be achieved. Seriously, look across the forums, someone, somewhere believes that balance was better at some other point in MWO's lifetime and would rather have the game be like that. Some people want it to be like open beta again, some people want poptarts back, some people want ghost heat to be gone, some people want quirks to be gone, some people want quirks to be back to how they were at some other point, etc, etc. In the end, it is all a bunch of same-tier changes that PGI has managed to spend YEARS on, and the result is a zero or minimal net change in satisfied or dissatisfied players. Is balance really better than it was at some other point? Eh. There is virtually nothing that is a more wasteful use of PGI's resources than rehashing balance just so that some other group of players will be pissed off while some other group is momentarily satisfied..
Out of the choices you list, 2 (as in 3) is the most realistic option. Given the nature of the Mechwarrior/BT universe of progressing technology, I am very surprised as so many people oppose new tech UNTIL we balance what we have, rather than adding new tech and using it to fill in gaps in balance. Again, I'll point out that satisfactory balance is an unattainable goal in the first place.