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[FallingAce]

BLOOD WOLF, on 17 September 2016 - 09:24 PM, said:

The boarders have been active since the last week. We even had a problem on the wolf boarder where we had basically taken the planet a few hours in.

Helps when 3 of the top 10 merc units decide to jump into Wolf at the same time.

[Kin3ticX]

couldnt PGI just reset everyone's contracts and grey out 8 factions from being picked?

Instant BUKKET

AMIRITE?

[justcallme A S H]

FallingAce, on 17 September 2016 - 09:41 PM, said:

Helps when 3 of the top 10 merc units decide to jump into Wolf at the same time.

I only see 2 of the top 4 in Clan Wolf atm?

[Deathlike]

BLOOD WOLF, on 17 September 2016 - 09:24 PM, said:

. IF people have a reason to play FW and it was more compelling it wouldn't matter if there was at least 5 planets up for contest. Although 5 might be to much but they get what I mean. The boarders have been active since the last week. We even had a problem on the wolf boarder where we had basically taken the planet a few hours in.

Once the FW event is over, FW becomes near irrelevant for most people.

If you have to bribe people with an event for activity, imagine how bad it is at other times.

Edited by Deathlike, 18 September 2016 - 08:18 AM.

[Kael Posavatz]

Kin3ticX, on 17 September 2016 - 09:52 PM, said:

couldnt PGI just reset everyone's contracts and grey out 8 factions from being picked?

Instant BUKKET

AMIRITE?

You are correct if--and only if--the result is an improvement of the game of sufficient nature that those Loyalists forced to abandon their banners (or worse, fight under someone else's) feel compelled to stay. If they decide to play elsewhere, then the net effect would be the same of them remaining split among ten different factions.

Frankly, I have a hard time imagining FW suddenly becoming great simply by shoving people into two groups. We had good (not great, but good) population counts last spring, or even this time last year. But PGI basically didn't touch FW after June 2015 (Vitric Forge release) until Phase III (except to reset the map). So the issues of why those people who were playing are not playing now would remain.

Edited by Kael Posavatz, 18 September 2016 - 08:55 AM.

[FallingAce]

justcallme A S H, on 18 September 2016 - 03:50 AM, said:

I only see 2 of the top 4 in Clan Wolf atm?

#10 Death and company [D'C]

Actually, i'm not sure about the rest of the top 10, i just know for sure those 3 are currently Wolf

Edited by FallingAce, 18 September 2016 - 11:54 AM.

[MischiefSC]

Kin3ticX, on 17 September 2016 - 09:52 PM, said:

couldnt PGI just reset everyone's contracts and grey out 8 factions from being picked?

Instant BUKKET

AMIRITE?

Longer wait times than you have today.

Plus less people than you had before the event.

If you consider that a 'fix'.

[Deathlike]

MischiefSC, on 18 September 2016 - 12:09 PM, said:

Longer wait times than you have today.

Plus less people than you had before the event.

If you consider that a 'fix'.

Let's just rename CW/FW/FP again.

MechWarrior Online: Clan vs Inner Sphere (only)
MWO: CvIS**
**faction name doesn't matter

That'll win 'em back!

[DarklightCA]

Deathlike, on 18 September 2016 - 12:40 PM, said:

Let's just rename CW/FW/FP again.

MechWarrior Online: Clan vs Inner Sphere (only)
MWO: CvIS**
**faction name doesn't matter

That'll win 'em back!

MechWarrior Online: Individual Factions: Come for the long wait times, stay for the ghost drops.

[Deathlike]

DarklightCA, on 18 September 2016 - 12:45 PM, said:

MechWarrior Online: Individual Factions: Come for the long wait times, stay for the ghost non-drops.

Remember, they just removed Ghost Drops despite having 2+ phases of them!

[WolvesX]

How about a solo player only queue for faction play? That would solve almost ALL of the isseus.

I love playing solo and I love playing FP, so a solo player only queue would be great for player like me.

[QueenBlade]

Nerco post? (Nearly 5 months)

A solo player only Faction Play has been done, and it failed to produce.

Solo players instead went and created 1 size units to play in Group queue FP instead.

[MaxFool]

QueenBlade, on 03 February 2017 - 10:47 AM, said:

Nerco post? (Nearly 5 months)

A solo player only Faction Play has been done, and it failed to produce.

Solo players instead went and created 1 size units to play in Group queue FP instead.

Well, it was also implemented badly, so afterwards it was hard to say if it failed because it was a bad idea or because it was done badly. It wasn't even solo and group queues, it was separate queues for people with or without unit tags. Not to mention doing this when we were split between 10+ different queues anyway.

I do agree on pointing out necro thread, September was ages ago, too much stuff has changed since then, pointless to necro a hopelessly out of date thread.

[naterist]

QueenBlade, on 03 February 2017 - 10:47 AM, said:

Nerco post? (Nearly 5 months)

A solo player only Faction Play has been done, and it failed to produce.

Solo players instead went and created 1 size units to play in Group queue FP instead.

that sounds like unit que, not group que. in a solo/group que, a unit of 1 is still a solo.

[MischiefSC]

On a more important note, with Sader banned I'm going to pretend that his King Crab build 'Mr. Clamps' was actually my idea, I've dubbed it my Carry Crab and use it to dominate in QP. Doesn't play well in FW because it's too damn hot and actual teams, unlike pugs, won't let you blow 95.5 pts in a couple of peoples faces then back off for a while to cool.

However we do need to take the time to divvy up Saders mech builds as I suspect MS has already divvied up his stuff.