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[Danjo San]

I took the liberty to pool questions and solutions from multiple threads into one poll. sorry in advance if i missed some...

Edited by Danjo San, 22 June 2016 - 10:08 AM.

[Leone]

So... Many... Questions...

~Leone.

[rolly]

Is this questionnaire useful? Sadly no.

PGI has a track record for turning a blind eye to the forums and the massed suggestions on how to improve things. (Buy a mech pack) You can turn it into a drinking game how many times they've attempted to distract players from glaring issues with offerings of new mechs.

I appreciate your time and effort. I just have seen over the past 4 years that PGI will do whatever it wants. Regardless of popular demographic opinion.

[Bud Crue]

Nice effort Danjo San. Alas, it will only be a nice effort.

[BLOOD WOLF]

rolly, on 22 June 2016 - 10:32 AM, said:

Is this questionnaire useful? Sadly no.

PGI has a track record for turning a blind eye to the forums and the massed suggestions on how to improve things. (Buy a mech pack) You can turn it into a drinking game how many times they've attempted to distract players from glaring issues with offerings of new mechs.

I appreciate your time and effort. I just have seen over the past 4 years that PGI will do whatever it wants. Regardless of popular demographic opinion.

Whine harder bro. This is so far from the truth, I cant believe any rational person still would hold these beliefs even after they have been proven wrong so many times. Pgi has already demonstrated that they can be able to fix mistakes made in the patches. For instance this new map idea is going to get tweaked fairly fast. Get your head out the gutters.

Edited by BLOOD WOLF, 22 June 2016 - 10:56 AM.

[MischiefSC]

Questions are decent, answers are not. I disagree with most of the suggested solutions. Unit sizes have never been the issue - SWOL, CWI, HHoD, TCAF and at times others are all as big or bigger than MS and a couple times bigger than 228, 10x bigger than KCOM or EVIL but not what people complain about.

I appreciate the effort, I do. I just don't find the listed problems or solutions to be overly applicable. Unfortunately that's probably going to be the case with a lot of people no matter what you write.

[Danjo San]

MischiefSC, on 22 June 2016 - 11:05 AM, said:

Questions are decent, answers are not. I disagree with most of the suggested solutions. Unit sizes have never been the issue - SWOL, CWI, HHoD, TCAF and at times others are all as big or bigger than MS and a couple times bigger than 228, 10x bigger than KCOM or EVIL but not what people complain about.

I appreciate the effort, I do. I just don't find the listed problems or solutions to be overly applicable. Unfortunately that's probably going to be the case with a lot of people no matter what you write.

It's an overall impression of what I have followed up on reading and discussing in the forums, obviously I have not read every thread or every answer, I doubt anyone has...
Also keep in mind that answers and solutions listed in a poll should be short. to go fully in detail with everything would be too much...
Also it should not be the Community conducting the Polls... PGI should be doing that!

[AnTi90d]

The #1 change I want to see is allies helping their allies attack and defend.

If Kurita attacks Steiner, Davion should be able to help defend.

If Kurita attacks Jaguar, Marik should be able to help attack.

This would give the backseat IS pilots an avenue to the clans. They could put their tags on worlds even though their own faction doesn't stand to gain any planets for itself.

This would also reduce curbstomps, which usually occur on defense missions, by allowing skittle pugs into the attack queues, thus making defense missions less concentrated with them.

[Red Shrike]

For me, it's the maps and gamemodes in Invasion (attack and counterattack). The chokepoints and size make them terrible to play on.

Not only are they tiny and with chokepoints that serve no purpose other than to nullify respawns, they also lack any kind of relation to the planet they're supposedly on and the universe they're supposedly in.
I feel that at least a few maps from MW4:Mercs would make for better FP Invasion maps than the ones we have now.

Edited by Red Shrike, 22 June 2016 - 12:40 PM.

[AnTi90d]

Red Shrike, on 22 June 2016 - 12:39 PM, said:

I feel that at least a few maps from MW4:Mercs would make for better FP Invasion maps than the ones we have now.

If PGI would ever release a way for us to construct maps, like MW4's mapmaker, the game would have HUNDREDS of maps like MW4 had and PGI could pick and choose from dozens and dozens of maps to flesh out CW.

Give us a map editor.

Hold a monthly mapmaking contest.

Profit as people return to the game to enjoy the new content that streams in.

[Red Shrike]

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[Danjo San]

AnTi90d, on 22 June 2016 - 12:42 PM, said:

If PGI would ever release a way for us to construct maps, like MW4's mapmaker, the game would have HUNDREDS of maps like MW4 had and PGI could pick and choose from dozens and dozens of maps to flesh out CW.

Give us a map editor.

Hold a monthly mapmaking contest.

Profit as people return to the game to enjoy the new content that streams in.

100% This! +1

[AnTi90d]

Red Shrike, on 22 June 2016 - 12:51 PM, said:

OMG, we had such badass fights on that map in the SunderJunkies server. (We basically played FP Invasion type matches amongst ourselves.) That Invasion type map had a huge base in the bottom right with boats and turrets and scouting vehicles in the green pastures that you needed to destroy.

Good times.. good times..

[Danjo San]

Red Shrike, on 22 June 2016 - 12:39 PM, said:

For me, it's the maps and gamemodes in Invasion (attack and counterattack). The chokepoints and size make them terrible to play on.

Not only are they tiny and with chokepoints that serve no purpose other than to nullify respawns, they also lack any kind of relation to the planet they're supposedly on and the universe they're supposedly in.
I feel that at least a few maps from MW4:Mercs would make for better FP Invasion maps than the ones we have now.

funny thing is, the percieved size is still quite large because you drop wave after wave and have to walk the entire distance again... I have heard players complain about sulfurus Lanes are too long to walk.

[AnTi90d]

Danjo San, on 22 June 2016 - 12:57 PM, said:

funny thing is, the percieved size is still quite large because you drop wave after wave and have to walk the entire distance again... I have heard players complain about sulfurus Lanes are too long to walk.

It used to feel like a ten mile hike, uphill.. until I took the advice of some of the units I was dropping with and redid my mechs to be 65kph+, (preferrably 70+.)

That and the advice to test out all your builds in Vitric Forgo to make sure they're not too hot to play have been the best pieces of advice I've gotten in the game.

[Super Trooper]

AnTi90d, on 22 June 2016 - 12:42 PM, said:

If PGI would ever release a way for us to construct maps, like MW4's mapmaker, the game would have HUNDREDS of maps like MW4 had and PGI could pick and choose from dozens and dozens of maps to flesh out CW.

Give us a map editor.

Hold a monthly mapmaking contest.

Profit as people return to the game to enjoy the new content that streams in.

Russ said it was coming....almost two years ago.

[KahnWongFuChung]

The problem with CW/FP is its not NBT or MWL its not fun and competitive enough like the old private run leagues were.

Along with MWO in general is boring repetitive and its very un-Social.

But the devs are just stupid and ignorant in there drive to kill MWO and make it into some E-Tard Sport game.

A link to real MechWarrior/BattleTech Planetary http://mwo.netbattletech.com/

[Ace Selin]

I would have voted but my interest in this game is waning.

[Lukoi Banacek]

KahnWongFuChung, on 22 June 2016 - 03:19 PM, said:

The problem with CW/FP is its not NBT or MWL its not fun and competitive enough like the old private run leagues were.

Along with MWO in general is boring repetitive and its very un-Social.

But the devs are just stupid and ignorant in there drive to kill MWO and make it into some E-Tard Sport game.

A link to real MechWarrior/BattleTech Planetary http://mwo.netbattletech.com/

Looking forward to NBT coming back online.

[Czarr]

First of all before anything they need more players, the population even when an event like the summer solstice going on is dismal. Second of all FP is dumb....charging gens, fighting over omega, scouting is all boring. They need more modes and interesting modes. They need to allow us to get in games faster as quick as quick play and they need more variety

What I find not an issue..unit size, if you were here during beta you would know that many of the bigger units started as small alliances. MS for example was a combination of several units in Ghost Bear and House Steiner. So if you did break unit size, units would just go back to that small unit alliance strategy they had before and still do just as well.

Balance is not an issue either, if you are having problems "get gud". No seriously learn about your mechs pros and cons

And I agree this won't accomplish much, players have been suggesting changes since beta. I don't know if PGI just doesn't have the funding or they're just not listening to players. But staying the course is not the option as we are losing players rapidly, MWO only has a population of around 3000 right now...which is bad.