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[MedivalJ]

Mechlab
Variant Loadouts: Allow players to save configurations and switch between them. If required items in the configuration are not available, allow the player to buy the items required.
Unit Decals: Allow players to create and equip their own unique decal for their unit.
Upgraded weapons: make new upgraded weapons available for purchase as the timeline progresses.
Ammo Types: Ability to change the ammo type which weapons fire. Ex. LBX-AC-10 can change between slugs or shot.
Weapon Loadout Labels: Label the weapons to include their current location on the mech. Ex. If two SPL's are equipped, label each with the arm or torso they inhabit.

Pilot
Customizable Jumpsuit/whatever else you guys can think of...
Customizable Pilot: Helmet, Face, Jumpsuit, Etc...
Pilot Profile Picture: A picture of the players pilot. This picture appears on the screens of other players when VOIP is used in-game. Also, add an option for players to use it as their profile pic online and offline.

Mech
Bargraph Damage indicator: Ability to switch between different readouts which display the player/enemy mechs health.
Custom Crosshairs: Adds the ability to equip and use custom crosshairs while piloting their mech.
Mech resizing: Resize mechs to be more proportional to their class.
Mech speed: light mechs don't exactly look nor feel like they're going at 130 km/h to me, though it could just be my perspective. I leave the criticism to you guys.
Cockpit Damage: Adds cracks, sparks, broken glass and noticable damage to the cockpit when it sustains damage.
Cockpit monitors: Displays more useful information on cockpit displays.
Extended Customizable Cockpit: Choose the information which is displayed on which monitor.


Matches
Additional gametypes: Search and destroy, VIP escort, breakout, convoy assault, king of the hill(s), capture the flag, base war, etc
Field repair: Addition of Mechbays/ Mobile Fieldbases to specific gametypes
Field spawn: Addition to the mechbays suggestion: mechbay spawn - it seems kind of weird that if you're defending you have to be dropped in to your own base. Spawn mechbay turrets to compensate for lack of dropship.
More/Larger maps: While we have an impressive number of maps already, variety is what keeps the battlefield fresh.
AI Pilots: Addition of AI piloted mechs to fill in the slots of missing players in CW.
CW Drop-ins: Allows players to drop into ongoing matches. This replaces any AI pilot occupying that slot and spawns the player on the map normally. Ejecting and/or leaving game once downed does not spawn an AI. Nor if an AI is downed, the player cannot join in that slot.
A campaign or PvE Mode: Either a full blown story driven campaign or something which allows players to work together towards defeating their IS/Clan opponents. Contracts, full blown battles, skirmeshes, etc...
Tournament grounds: An arena would expand on MWOs already arena type play-style and allow players to battle in 1v1, 2v2, 3v3 and/or 4v4 combat. This game-type would allow for smaller maps as the purpose is mostly, if not entirely, to allow players to brawl in close-quarters combat.
General chat: allows players to converse between one another in general.
Freelancer chat: allows freelance players to converse with one another in CW.

UI
"Accept All" and "Decline All" buttons: Allows players the option to accept/decline all friend requests, and/or any other notifications, with a single button click.

Extras
Destructable environment: Ability to destroy objects, structures and environment.

Edited by MedivalJ, 16 December 2016 - 09:29 PM.

[Novakaine]

Wanna buy a mech pak?
IBYA

[MadHornet]

Melee combat. I want to rock-em sock-em robots people in the face in a Hunchback.

HEAVY BATTLE FISTS

[Johnny Z]

Bad idea topic or what? Talk about wasted effort if any of these things were done.

Well the AI pilots isn't a bad idea. A couple other maybe as well.

Edited by Johnny Z, 29 October 2016 - 06:07 PM.

[N0ni]

Unit decals will be a thing eventually, my guess will be some time Q2 - Q3 next year. Already have my submission ready to go when that goes live.

[ProfessorD]

Johnny Z, on 29 October 2016 - 06:06 PM, said:

Bad idea topic or what? Talk about wasted effort if any of these things were done.

Well the AI pilots isn't a bad idea. A couple other maybe as well.

Even for these forums, that's a kinda special level of saltiness.

Ignore him, OP. Most of the ideas on that list are quite good, and a lot of them are things others have been calling for literally for years (saving configurations and swapping ammo were certainly discussed all the way back in 2012, and the bar graph HTAL damage indicator is literally a 25 year old idea).

[Davers]

Johnny Z, on 29 October 2016 - 06:06 PM, said:

Bad idea topic or what? Talk about wasted effort if any of these things were done.

Well the AI pilots isn't a bad idea. A couple other maybe as well.

If PGI suggested them you would love then.

But, yeah, a lot just won't work in MWO.

[Johnny Z]

Davers, on 29 October 2016 - 06:37 PM, said:

If PGI suggested them you would love then.

But, yeah, a lot just won't work in MWO.

Ya variant load out saves is something time and effort should be spent on. Those calling for stockmode special attention are happy to?

[SirNotlag]

I would love to have a customizable pilot as well as a customizable profile pic that pops up whenever you talk to people over VOIP.

[Davers]

Johnny Z, on 29 October 2016 - 06:42 PM, said:

Ya variant load out saves is something time and effort should be spent on. Those calling for stockmode special attention are happy to?

Well PGI thought it was worth the effort to make stock mode. Multiple saved loadouts is a commonly asked for feature, and something PGI can monetize.

Maybe I've just accepted that the things I want will never come, but I try not to be totally dismissive of what others want.

[Gaden Phoenix]

Stock mode...

Yea pushed by Battletech Purist and used like ... by even less then the 1 percent.

I totally am inline with the saved loadouts. But that might conflict with PGI's want you to buy multiple mechs thing.

[Johnny Z]

Ya the game desperately needs a club wielding Commando running around. #savemwo

Edited by Johnny Z, 29 October 2016 - 07:24 PM.

[Davers]

Gaden Phoenix, on 29 October 2016 - 06:55 PM, said:

Stock mode...

Yea pushed by Battletech Purist and used like ... by even less then the 1 percent.

I totally am inline with the saved loadouts. But that might conflict with PGI's want you to buy multiple mechs thing.

You would still need to buy 3 for Mastery. I don't see this cutting into PGI's money sinks.

[RestosIII]

Thinking PGI will actually add stuff that we have asked for over and over for years now. Trust me, we've asked for HTAL, ammo switching, unit dekkles, cockpit damage, new game modes, and basically all of the other things you listed here before. Over and over. And all PGI has ever said is that they are "thinking about it", if they acknowledge it at all. Don't forget that they, apparently, lost the only good coder they have so they have no idea how to add new weapon systems/do ammo switching. But all we get are mech packs, and the "e-sports experience".

[Battlemaster56]

Meanwhile in the sacred grounds of PGI work space.

[MedivalJ]

SirNotlag, on 29 October 2016 - 06:48 PM, said:

I would love to have a customizable pilot as well as a customizable profile pic that pops up whenever you talk to people over VOIP.

I'd be happy to add those ideas to the list if you'd like.

Edited by MedivalJ, 29 October 2016 - 08:55 PM.

[martian]

MedivalJ, on 29 October 2016 - 03:56 PM, said:

Mechlab
Variant Loadouts: Allow players to save configurations and switch between them. If required items in the configuration are not available, allow the player to buy the items required.

Sorry, but that's possible only in fan-made Mechlabs, not in MWO. PGI needed weeks to add simple "Trial 'Mechs" filter and months to add "Favourite 'Mechs" filter.

MedivalJ, on 29 October 2016 - 03:56 PM, said:

Unit Decals: Allow players to create and equip their own unique decal for their unit.

Only for MCs, I would imagine.

MedivalJ, on 29 October 2016 - 03:56 PM, said:

Upgraded weapons: make new upgraded weapons available for purchase as the timeline progresses.

Russ Bullock said that MWO will move in time - eventually. But they want to add all those 'Mechs that can be added with existing technology.

MedivalJ, on 29 October 2016 - 03:56 PM, said:

Ammo Types: Ability to change the ammo type which weapons fire. Ex. LBX-AC-10 can change between slugs or shot.

We have been waiting for years to have LBX Autocannons with switchable ammo. Sadly, the only man, who knew how to program this, left PGI years ago.

MedivalJ, on 29 October 2016 - 03:56 PM, said:

Pilot
Customizable Jumpsuit/whatever else you guys can think of...

Really, this is just a detail, considering that you see the pilot just a few seconds in the beginning of the game ...

MedivalJ, on 29 October 2016 - 03:56 PM, said:

Mech
Bargraph Damage indicator: Ability to switch between different readouts which display the player/enemy mechs health.

HTAL is LosTech. What do you think that you are doing? Playing some old MechWarrior 2, 3 or 4?

MedivalJ, on 29 October 2016 - 03:56 PM, said:

Custom Crosshairs: Adds the ability to equip and use custom crosshairs while piloting their mech.

I wouldn't even need custom crosshairs - I would be absolutely okay with the option to change the colour. I hate playing and having light blue crosshairs against light blue background or light yellow crosshairs against ochre background.

MedivalJ, on 29 October 2016 - 03:56 PM, said:

Mech resizing: Resize mechs to be more proportional to their class.

Sorry, but today's 'Mechs are result of exactly such resizing (happened in Summer). If you don't like it, you are out of luck.

MedivalJ, on 29 October 2016 - 03:56 PM, said:

Mech speed: light mechs don't exactly look nor feel like they're going at 130 km/h to me, though it could just be my perspective. I leave the criticism to you guys.

Personally I think it's okay.

MedivalJ, on 29 October 2016 - 03:56 PM, said:

Cockpit Damage: Adds cracks, sparks, broken glass and noticable damage to the cockpit when it sustains damage.

You are not playing some old MechWarrior 3.

MedivalJ, on 29 October 2016 - 03:56 PM, said:

Cockpit monitors: Displays more useful information on cockpit displays.

For years we have had empty monitors with "NO SIGNAL" on them (with occassional ammo counter and Heat Sinks status display).

Do you know how much effort it cost PGI to program what you can see on those displays now?

MedivalJ, on 29 October 2016 - 03:56 PM, said:

Extended Customizable Cockpit: Choose the information which is displayed on which monitor.

This is not your old MechWarrior 2.

MedivalJ, on 29 October 2016 - 03:56 PM, said:

Matches
Additional gametypes: Search and destroy, VIP escort, breakout, convoy assault, king of the hill(s), capture the flag, base war, etc

After years of deliberating, PGI added a new gamemode: Domination. Somehow, it plays exactly as Assault and Skirmish.

MedivalJ, on 29 October 2016 - 03:56 PM, said:

Field repair: Addition of Mechbays/ Mobile Fieldbases to specific gametypes

That's so 1990s ...


After all, you have respawns in CW. That should be enough.

MedivalJ, on 29 October 2016 - 03:56 PM, said:

Field spawn: Addition to the mechbays suggestion: mechbay spawn - it seems kind of weird that if you're defending you have to be dropped in to your own base. Spawn mechbay turrets to compensate for lack of dropship.

That's just a cosmetic detail, but if you wish ...

MedivalJ, on 29 October 2016 - 03:56 PM, said:

More/Larger maps: While we have an impressive number of maps already, variety is what keeps the battlefield fresh.

If new maps will be as bad as existing maps, then it really won't matter.

MedivalJ, on 29 October 2016 - 03:56 PM, said:

AI Pilots: Addition of AI piloted mechs to fill in the slots of missing players in CW.

Functional AI - that's the problem. But PGI is working on it and maybe in the two or three years ...

MedivalJ, on 29 October 2016 - 03:56 PM, said:

CW Drop-ins: Allows players to drop into ongoing matches. This replaces any AI pilot occupying that slot and spawns the player on the map normally. Ejecting and/or leaving game once downed does not spawn an AI. Nor if an AI is downed, the player cannot join in that slot.

I believe that Russ Bullock said that CW is more or less complete as is. Maybe PGI will change some details, but don't expect some big changes.

MedivalJ, on 29 October 2016 - 03:56 PM, said:

A campaign or PvE Mode: Either a full blown story driven campaign or something which allows players to work together towards defeating their IS/Clan opponents. Contracts, full blown battles, skirmeshes, etc...

Maybe in the next decade.

On the other hand, HBS BattleTech will have it in May 2017. I have backed that game.

MedivalJ, on 29 October 2016 - 03:56 PM, said:

Tournament grounds: An arena would expand on MWOs already arena type play-style and allow players to battle in 1v1, 2v2, 3v3 and/or 4v4 combat. This game-type would allow for smaller maps as the purpose is mostly, if not entirely, to allow players to brawl in close-quarters combat.

Solaris 7 gamemode? PGI is thinking about it and maybe it will be ready in some nebulous future.

MedivalJ, on 29 October 2016 - 03:56 PM, said:

General chat: allows players to converse between one another in general.
Freelancer chat: allows freelance players to converse with one another in CW.

PGI will be on it, just after they do all those things above.

MedivalJ, on 29 October 2016 - 03:56 PM, said:

Extras
Destructable environment: Ability to destroy objects, structures and environment.

That's so 1990s.

You really didn't believe it when PGI promised it in back in 2009 or so, did you? Well, I must admit, I believed it too.



And see, it's 2016 now and you can step on fences and knock down trees. Isn't it great?



Look, boy. PGI explicitly told you: "Not your father's MechWarrior."

So stop asking for impossible things ...

[Gaden Phoenix]

Davers, on 29 October 2016 - 07:03 PM, said:

You would still need to buy 3 for Mastery. I don't see this cutting into PGI's money sinks.

But if you want to easily change layout, the only way now is the buy mech bay and the same mech. And I am sure there are people that do that.

[TheArisen]

- New weapons & defensive tech
- Make planets matter in CW/FP (Assign them functions http://mwomercs.com/...-value-in-fpcw/ )
- Less linear maps in FP
- New maps for QP & FP
- New game modes for QP & FP
- PVE solo/co-op campaign
- Rework/Replace Long Toms

[Tigerwolf]

This topic is funny because over half of those suggestions were what was promised during beta.