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[MechaBattler]

I have two simple questions for Russ and them. What was the impression of low heat cap/high dissipation from the last PTS? Will we be seeing any further attempts to reduce or control alpha sizes?

I for one want to see more simulation elements in this game. It doesn't have to be AlphaWarrior Online. In spite of what GasGuzzler may say

[Will9761]

MovinTarget, on 27 January 2017 - 06:34 AM, said:

The primaty reason merc-life appeals to me personally is that i can ultimately choose to play *all* my mechs. Maybe not at the same time, but over the course of months, i get to play a variety of mechs and variety of styles.

Our unit will typically stay on an alternating 2 week rotation between clams and IS. We aren't groupies following bigger units.

So basically, if we were forced to choose on side or the other, it would suck. Believe it or not, I like FP better than QP and that means FP is the primary force behind my being a bit of a whale. I am pretty sure I am not the only one.

So simply put, put me and others in a corner and there will be some wallet implications for PGI.

Additionally, while people hate to admit it, mercs are rather pivotal in "balancing" sides... if ypu lock people in and it ends up being unbalanced based on player preferences... it could make things worse.

Balance means dirrent things to dofferent people:
Is it that either side can win a given match?
Is it either side can win a planet?

These are two different things if you think about it... it would be awfully hard to flip a planet if every game is a discreet 50/50 coin toss.

So part of what needs to be tackled is honestly people just getting on board with a common idea of long term success conditions...

Maybe we simply have each hour of a phase be a certain mode and at ceasefire tally which side had the most wins... or each hour is a "pie piece" and getting 51% (or whatever it would be if 8 hours, need 5 pie pieces)... then you could get unit/player bonuses for each hour's win (an hour is arbitrary here, just an example) and also for best overall performance over the phase.

That may ultimately not be optimal either, but the current tug of war, eternal qp mode is not super fun...

Well there is no fun when a Loyalist get the short stick of FP. The main problem I see is that Mercenaries run Faction warfare when it's supposed to be the opposite. If you're a IS or Clan loyalist, you have to stick with the side you are given but as a Mercenary, I can run an IS or Clan deck. I hate the Mercenary life in this game both in a lorewise and gameplay perspective. What I also hate about Merc Life is the fact they can jump around all willy-nilly with no consequences at all. A merc corp can take planets within days, but next week that same merc corp can take back those planets as IS. I don't think that Merc Corps should be removed from the game but they should be restricted from ever serving the Clans. This is also why I said the Clans should have a Merc equivalent of their own. One example this could be shown is by having the traditional Clan Daggerstar.

For example these pictures would be fine:
With these pictures at least they make sense, because you are saying, "I am a Clan unit but I am reinforcing a specific Clan."


NOT THESE!:

Spoiler

These pictures say, "I'm an Inner Sphere Unit attached to Clans"

It just feels wrong to me. If the current clan images were altered to have the Clan Daggerstars instead of the Merc Corp symbol, I wouldn't gripe too much about it.

But still, loyalists need more love than just pictures. For Loyalist players, they should be infused with RPG-Elements like NPC faction leaders for faction events. Rewards could be better as well such as Faction Decals, Unlocking Faction Patterns for Faction Specific mechs, faction colors, etc. Anything to make Loyalists much more appealing than Mercenaries.

Edited by Will9761, 27 January 2017 - 03:04 PM.

[naterist]

i wouldnt mind seeing 2 types of merc, 1 is IS mercenary, and the other clanner bandit caste. make them capable of running around between theyre respective tech trees factions, but dont let them cross between tech sides. then give them a specialized role and the ability to switch around sides for same tech wars.

Edited by naterist, 27 January 2017 - 02:50 PM.

[MovinTarget]

Will9761, on 27 January 2017 - 02:42 PM, said:

Well there is no fun when a Loyalist get the short stick of FP. The main problem I see is that Mercenaries run Faction warfare when it's supposed to be the opposite. If you're a IS or Clan loyalist, you have to stick with the side you are given but as a Mercenary, I can run an IS or Clan deck. I hate the Mercenary life both in a lorewise and gameplay perspective. What I also hate about Merc Life is the fact they can jump around all willy-nilly with no consequences at all. A merc corp can take planets within days, but next week that same merc corp can take back those planets as IS. I don't think that Merc Corps should be removed from the game but they should be restricted from ever serving the Clans. This is also why I said the Clans should have a Merc equivalent of their own. One example this could be shown is by having the traditional Clan Daggerstar.

For example these pictures would be fine:
With these pictures at least they make sense, because you are saying, "I am a Clan unit but I am reinforcing a specific Clan."


NOT THESE!:

Spoiler

These pictures say, "I'm an Inner Sphere Unit attached to Clans"

It just feels wrong to me. If the current clan images were altered to have the Clan Daggerstars instead of the Merc Corp symbol, I wouldn't gripe too much about it.

But still, loyalists need more love than just pictures. For Loyalist players, they should be infused with RPG-Elements like NPC faction leaders for faction events. Rewards could be better as well such as Faction Decals, Unlocking Faction Patterns for Faction Specific mechs, faction colors, etc. Anything to make Loyalists much more appealing than Mercenaries.

As I stated earlier in this thread *and* in the thread about bumping Clan tonnage to 245, I fully endorse Loyalists getting some love, despite the fact that I am a merc.

I would love it if they made it so attractive that I'd be tempted to switch, permanently... but it's not, and I like using all my mechs... that's my attraction to merc life... [IDI] doesn't just follow the merc pack (if there even is one), its not all about winning, we like competetive games and care more about having fun that feeling like we *have* to win every single game.

So yes, I honestly would love to see them make Loyalist a more attractive career path.

[Draven Darkshadow]

i'd say that they should just release all the limitations for clans and is mechs, is mechs have the ability to use clan xl engines but clan mechs should get the ability to get unlocked armor and structure endo armor.

as for gameplay ideas comes to mind the 12v12 aspect of most shooters tends to be a bit stale.. perhaps a push to a scale like planetside 2's game play which is a larger scale 100 vs 100 with different support & main mechs which the other mw game online portrays in which has the addition of aerospace fighters, tanks & battlesuits.

the main aspect of mwo maps have 15 main maps which could be used as a basic idea for planets to form around in plus limit the planets to these conditions in order to develop a possible story line for a limited amount of planets in which the factions fight in instead of 300+ planets with the same 5 invasion type maps(sulfur/moon/arctic/forest/crystal) .

maps like polar arctic and thera therma (revised) slightly enhanced and expended about 2-3 times could hold more different types of units(air/ground/infantry) and mechs

it just seems to feel like mwo has reached its peak and therefore interest and people playing is dropping to new lows without a more diverse gameplay, like the implementation of player made bases in planetside 2 i think the current mwo franchise will fail and cease to keep the player base interested in the game

[MovinTarget]

Draven Darkshadow, on 27 January 2017 - 03:49 PM, said:

i'd say that they should just release all the limitations for clans and is mechs, is mechs have the ability to use clan xl engines but clan mechs should get the ability to get unlocked armor and structure endo armor.

as for gameplay ideas comes to mind the 12v12 aspect of most shooters tends to be a bit stale.. perhaps a push to a scale like planetside 2's game play which is a larger scale 100 vs 100 with different support & main mechs which the other mw game online portrays in which has the addition of aerospace fighters, tanks & battlesuits.

the main aspect of mwo maps have 15 main maps which could be used as a basic idea for planets to form around in plus limit the planets to these conditions in order to develop a possible story line for a limited amount of planets in which the factions fight in instead of 300+ planets with the same 5 invasion type maps(sulfur/moon/arctic/forest/crystal) .

maps like polar arctic and thera therma (revised) slightly enhanced and expended about 2-3 times could hold more different types of units(air/ground/infantry) and mechs

it just seems to feel like mwo has reached its peak and therefore interest and people playing is dropping to new lows without a more diverse gameplay, like the implementation of player made bases in planetside 2 i think the current mwo franchise will fail and cease to keep the player base interested in the game

If the servers and clients could handle 100v100 that would be crazy to see.. but a big if...

[SuperFunkTron]

Tarogato, on 26 January 2017 - 01:30 AM, said:

2. Gamemode voting. Remove the "phases" from the Tug O'War, and just present teams the option to vote on a gamemode when a match is found. After a gamemode is selected, randomly choose a map and plop players into their mech select lobbies.

I just listened to this section of the premeeting now and this really is a high priority issue. I gave it some thought and I think that a good solution can be made by modifying an idea I presented earlier in this thread. Check this spoiler:

Faction Play IS map and planet significance.

Spoiler

This is still very unrefined and open to improvement but would be another way of adding depth, meaning, and significance beyond just changing planet color.
This is a bit of a direct attack on lore, but because MWO is essentially a player driven game with no real story line (beyond the lore that gave us our mechs), I have a proposition on how to make the the IS map an over all concept of Faction Play more compelling: Wipe the history and allow us to create it seasonally! The only context for this that is needed is that the Clans are working to reclaim Terra and control of the IS.

Fundamentals: Organize planets (or regions on a single planet) into small groups of 4 to 8 (half belong to faction A, the rest to the faction B ) and allow battle window to be an attempt to gain as many of those planets in the cluster as possible (clusters should not be permanent groupings but rather dynamic to each battle window). Within each cluster, planets should offer different benefits and key services (insert better ideas here) such as Industry (mech availability/ mech cost), Intel (scouting mode benefits), and Logistics (payouts). Different game modes can even be associated with particular planet types (Domination for Intel planets and conquest for logistics).

Through out the battle window, players are dropped onto the different planets/regions (to be voted on once a 12 man is formed, attacking team decides) in an attempt to take over as many of them as possible while gaining/losing the benefits each of them provide.

Planet/region benefits explained:

Industry planets could be implemented as the loss of availability of a certain mech to drop in (with trial mechs being the default replacement if a player lacks sufficient mechs) or the the allowance of a mech not specific to their faction (see above Factions) without any additional cost.

Intel - very similar to what we have now for scouting, but with any of the great improvement ideas many others have posted here.

Logistics- improves or harms c-bill payouts (or even MC) payouts. Eventually, ammunition availability/costs could be added here if mech maintenance becomes a thing

Which Planet/region is attacked?: This would be determined by a company (or binary vote) once the group is formed. They would be shown the attack progress on each of the planet/region types an given a 10 second window before the voting is started (this will give time for the more informed to make their case or direct other players) and another 10-20 seconds to vote. The voting is implemented so that there is some level of potential gain/loss for the type of planet/region they'd like to potentially gain.

As I said above, this is a very rough idea but provides the basis for making FP significantly more consequential immediately.

If you associate a pair of game modes (domination, conquest, invasion, skirmish) with each of the planet types, then you could essentially improve chances of a certain game mode being present but not exclusively 1 type that that planet/region. An example would be that Domination and skirmish could be the most likely game types for the Intel region. Invasion and conquest could be predominantly on the industrial regions. An alternate game mode grouping would be present on the logistics region.

This would allow a small amount of control over the game type that people want to drop in while providing some element of chance so that it isn't a single mode to a single region. The obvious downside to this is that it would essentially create 3 buckets where people decide which of the resources they want to capture most for that time in the phase. However, the increased depth may bring enough people into FP to allow a tier system to be implemented there and thus solve skill disparity issues.

Looking at the discussion points, it seems that no single implement can sufficiently improve FP on its own, but rather a combination of them together are necessary to both raise interest in FP which will raise the population, then retain enough of them in order to add a matchmaker that will balance the matches in FP.

[Peiper]

Okay, got through four pages and kept reading the same thing, which basically says: let's think inside the box. XL engines, balance stuff, and feel good reward adjustments.

I disagree with all of that. Balance will happen anyway over time, and is not necessarily a CW thing, but just a game thing. XL engines. More trivial stuff that gets sorted out in balancing. Rewards? The game should be fun to play with or without extra stuff. What is the use of extra stuff if you're doing the same thing all the time and not actually affecting the MAP.

What we need, in a nutshell, is:

Supply lines. The further from a capitol planet you are, the less you get paid. Every week, faction loyalists get to vote to change that planet. However, the larger the empire, it means that the front lines may be very far away from the capitol. This has the effect of the larger the empire, the less they pay their mercs/harder to supply their front lines = less cbills.

Raiding: a game mode that represents guerrilla warfare and partisan attacks behind the front lines. These raids have the effect of reducing supply (cash) to the front lines. If a faction doesn't defend against them, the front line guys don't get paid. The raids should be 6 v 6 or 8 v 8 filling in the blanks in our drop options and helping smaller units to build up from scouting matches to bigger groups.

Planets with meaning. Certain planets should have bonuses. These should be non-mech bonuses. If you control the planet you get stuff like sensor towers, turrets, smoke/chaff artillery, VTOL support, armor support, infantry nests (like SRM nests, hidden until triggered) and so on. These wouldn't make the mechs any better, but would be things that would help in minor ways during the battle. Mech factories: I do like the idea of faction specific mechs or tech, but for all practicality, leave it. In fact, I'm sick of the IS vs. Clan segregation. When we get the new tech in summer, IS will (canonically) be buying clan mechs from Sea Fox, Nova Cats will be part of the Inner Sphere, along with Clan Wolf in Exile, and the Ghost Bears will merge with FRR. (And thank God, so sick of the segregation.) If a faction takes a clan or IS factory, for each factory planet they take, they can add a mech of opposite tech to their drop decks.

Unit coffers should help the unit: let us withdraw money from the coffers to buy mechs or otherwise support new players or help them fill out their drop deck. This amount could be capped. Up to unit leadership how stuff is distributed.

Economic mini-game: This game would run separately from the main game, and solo players could use it representing stock brokers, arms dealers, commodities vendors. These would be 'rogue traders' who would go around and make deals both within and outside of the faction lines. The effects would be stuff for either the faction (for faction players) or the unit. You could get your hands on the black market and get technology for your friends. (Maybe put a clan mech in an IS dropdeck and vice versa.) For factions that are in trouble, it would help mitigate the effects of raids and supply line issues. It would give poorer players a chance to really contribute to their unit/faction as well. Players could own dropships and rent Jumpships to move around the galaxy.

Factions should be able to pick and vote on a very specific planet or at least prefecture to attack, and other factions (houses/clans) should not get in the way. If there aren't enough players to populate entire factions, limit the fronts to, say, Steiner vs. Falcon. Add factions as population increases, unlocking those factions/fronts. You could even consider adding more of a type of faction if populations get too lopsided. Let's say you have Steiner vs. Falcon, but there are twice as many clan players. Open up Wolf too. Wolf will HAVE to fight Falcons as they don't border Steiner. Likewise with Merrick. It would be a balancing factor. (Even I'm not sure on that, but worth a consideration.).

Notice, EVERYTHING above adds content to the game, and MEANING.

Edited by Peiper, 27 January 2017 - 06:35 PM.

[QueenBlade]

PLAYER ROLES
LOYALISTS:
Can either be Solo or in a Unit.
Loyal to their faction
Can only fight for their sworn Faction and its allies.
Handles votes to determine planetary assaults
Reputation gains are increased
Cbills gains are based on reputation rank (rank 20 will make more than a rank 1) but are lower than Mercenary pay
House/Clan based Mechs repair/refit faster and cheaper than non-House/Clan based Mechs
Players can use reputation to cover repair/refit expenses or cbills or MC.
Breaking loyalty will reduce reputation gain. Must undergo a 5-match probation period before receiving full benefits.

MERCENARIES:
Must be in a Unit.
Must sign a Faction Contract.
Can only fight for their contracted Faction and its allies
Fighting for the highest bidder, does not vote (7 day contracts)
MRBC reputation gain stays normal
Cbills gains and bonuses are increased and are based on reputation rank
Repair/Refit costs and timers are increased
Players can use reputation to cover repair/refit expenses or cbills or MC.
Breaking of contracts are met with severe penalties. Reduction in contract bonus.

FREELANCERS:
Cannot be in a Unit.
No Faction Contract or allegiance is required.
Can only drop into matches by accepting an Urgent Call To Arms
Receives only standard cbill gains
Does not receive Faction Loyalty or MRBC reputation points.
Repair/Refit costs and timers are standardized

ATTACK TYPES
SCOUTING
4v4 Game Mode, where one team tries to steal/gather Intel, while the others try to stop them.
1 mech, 20 to 55 tons max

INVASION
12v12 Game Mode, Tug of War combat in an attempt to remove the enemy forces from the planet and take control for your faction.
Each battle can sway the capture percentage from two to five percent.
Crushing Victory - Win with more than 36 mechs remaining for your side, 5% pull
Clear Victory - Win with 35-24 mechs remaining for your side, 4% pull
Average Victory - Win with 23-12 mechs remaining for your side, 3% pull
Close Victory - Win with less than 12 mechs remaining for your side, 2% pull
Every time 20, 40, 60, 80, and 100% is crossed. A CW map is triggered in the matchmaker. Everything else in between is randomized between the QP map/game modes to create a random and dynamic planetary campaign. Planet will only be captured if 4/5 (9/10) CW map nodes are in favor of the attacking forces.

LEAGUE MAP
Faction Play map shows the realm of space known as the Inner Sphere. It is here that the six ruling Houses and four invading Clans battle one another over control of worlds. The Inner Sphere is divided into realms controlled by each Faction at the beginning of the game. Each planet contributes to the costs of repairs towards your Mechs. As planets are lost and gained, repair costs and timers will increase or decrease. These planets are also connected by a lattice system that Loyalists can vote on as part of determining which Planets their faction will assault.

Lattice Map reference: http://iscs.teamspam...30.20020918.jpg

FACTION REPUTATION
LOYALISTS:
Rank 1 to 20 will increase pay from 1% to 20%, and decrease repair cost/timers. The attached rewards are given only once, but rank will reset between seasons

*Change how Clan loyalist gain reputation. Rename to Honor.
Honor is gained by dropping with tonnage available (reducing their total drop deck tonnage by taking lighter mechs). The more tonnage available in their drop deck, the more honor that is gained. Honor can be increased further through victories.

MERCENARY:
Rank 1 to 20 will increase pay from 1% to 20%, and decrease repair cost/timers. The attached rewards are given only once, but rank will reset between seasons

FACTION POPULATION BALANCE
https://mwomercs.com...ost__p__5131382

PLANETARY TYPES
With the addition of quickplay maps there posses an opportunity to make Planet types based on climate.

CW MAPS
Boreal Vault
Emerald Taiga
Grim Portico
Hellebore Springs
Sulfurous Rift
Vitric Forge
QP MAPS
Alpine Peaks
Canyon Network
Caustic Valley
Crimson Strait
Forest Colony
Frozen City
Grim Plexus
HPG Manifold
Polar Highlands
River City
Terra Therma
The Mining Collective
Tourmaline Desert
Viridian Bog

Examples:
COLD WORLD
CW map: Boreal Vault
QP maps: Alpine Peaks, Frozen City, Polar Highlands

HOT WORLD 1
CW map: Victric Forge
QP maps: Caustic Valley, Terra Therma, Viridian Bog

HOT WORLD 2
CW map: Sulfurous Rift
QP maps: Caustic Valley, Terra Therma, Viridian Bog

HOT WORLD 3
CW maps: Victric Forge, Sulfurous Rift
QP maps: Caustic Valley, Terra Therma, Viridian Bog

Idea here is that it would make building drop decks simpler and tuned towards Planet types instead of map

PLANETARY VALUE / LOGISTICS
By including the Repair/Refit system, planets can now be valued where they affect repair costs and timers. Factions that begin to lose planets, repair costs and timers would begin to increase.
Special planets can be labeled to affect the repairs towards specific mechs and/or specific weight classes as well. Encouraging factions to hold or take these planets.
MC can still be used as an added reward, keep costs similar to those that would cover repair costs for unit members

END GAME OBJECTIVES / SEASON END / MAP RESET
Clans: Capture Terra
Houses: Capture majority of House capitals (3)

The idea here is that by sharing objectives this will encourage Clans and Houses to fight not only each other but themselves as well. Upon completing these objectives, the unit with the most impact towards a faction’s victory will receive rewards that they can show off next season.

If Clan win:
Loyalist
Leader: Title, Decal, and Camo - ilKhan
Unit members: Title, Decal, and Camo - ilClan
Mercenary
Leader: Title, Decal, and Camo - Colonel
Unit members: Title, Decal, and Camo - Wolf’s Dragoons

If House win:
Loyalist
Leader: Title, Decal, and Camo - First Lord
Unit members: Title, Decal, and Camo - Star League Defense Force
Mercenary
Leader: Title, Decal, and Camo - Colonel
Unit members: Title, Decal, and Camo - Wolf’s Dragoons

[Andi Nagasia]

On Choosing your Drop Location on Respawn,
-
on death, you can choose where you now want to Drop,
once the Drop Timer Starts(Every 30Secs) your Locked in and cant change your Choice,
(this Stops problems with People from changing their Chose in Route to drop)
-
if more than 4 people have Chosen a Single Drop Location in that 30Sec Window,
each Drop Ship past the First is Delayed more as to allow all to Drop in the Same Location,
(this stops the need for multiple Drop Locations in a single Drop Location)



Invasion Phase Selection Fix,
-
Manipulative Voting per Phase,
1st Phase= Possible Game modes to Vote on(Skirmish, Conquest, Domination)
2nd Phase= Possible Game modes to Vote on(Conquest, Domination, Assault)
3rd Phase= Possible Game modes to Vote on(Domination, Assault, Invasion)



Factions Loyalist Bonuses?
-
give Loyalist Free(Loyalist Patterns) / (Faction Colors)
which are only Available as long as you remain a Loyalist to that Faction,
Change to another Faction and you lose your Faction Patterns/Colors,
(this removal doesnt not remove Patterns/Colors Bought with MC)
-
Also give Loyalists X2 Experience?(Buffer for Skill Trees)?
Higher Tonnage when Droping(Perhaps 10 or 15 more Tons)?

Edited by Andi Nagasia, 27 January 2017 - 08:07 PM.

[Insufferable Smartypants]

Maybe they can add a small (but growing as you get further along in the tug-of-war) chance to spawn an invasion game mode instead of any of the current skirmish/assault/conquest missions.

[Ragedog4]

Voting should be out of CW. It will just cause dropping to slow down. Besides...

...Voting is like telling your Contract or Commander as a Solider you know whats best. Time to follow orders/do your job.

[tworivers]

I totally agree with what Peiper said and that will make a huge difference in game play. Just making balance changes will not give the desired result as it will be the same with a different bow.

[Morticia Mellian]

Un-nerf Clan weights. Or at least have higher weight limits with Loyalists.

[BearFlag]

@Twitch

Their three points are small mechanics in the scheme of things. Not unimportant, but certainly not "most" important.

Most important remains population which ended in single bucket, no factions, no planets (and soon it sounds, no phases). This comes back to match balance. This in turn makes broken respawn miserable at times.

This is what continues to kill FW.

[Ragedog4]

Instead of Tonnage Limits why not go more the Battletech style with Battle Value for each mech?

Example: Battle Value (BV) ranged from 1-20. Each dropship of your 4 mechs has a BV total that is Equal for both IS and Clan. You have a Jenner-D, an Oxide, and a Jenner-IIC. The Jenner D is a value of 6, the Oxide is a value of 9, and the IIC has a value of 10 because clan tech is a bit better (this also depends on if the stats say if Oxide or IIC is better). You might not have enough BV left to take the IIC or Oxide with your other 3 mechs so you take the Jenner-D, or even a bad Medium mech with the same BV, instead.

This way more powerful/OP/Meta mechs are not being taken the entire time, it gives way to variety, and when new Meta Mechs come to light (because of Patch changes), all you have to do is change the BV of that mech to give easy balance.

I want to know what you think! Please give me your ideas around this.

Edited by ragedog4, 27 January 2017 - 07:40 PM.

[Peiper]

ragedog4, on 27 January 2017 - 07:36 PM, said:

Instead of Tonnage Limits why not go more the Battletech style with Battle Value for each mech?

I want to know what you think! Please give me your ideas around this.

I LOVE battle value. Much better than tonnage to show worth of mechs. Should have been done LONG ago before they even worried about trying to make clan and IS mechs balanced/the same.

As far as canon merc units: Make them something a unit could join, gets more money or something and neato stickers for their mechs, but the cost is, they don't choose your faction. The MRBC or other omnipotent (devs) choose which faction you fight for. Could help balance factions.

Regarding mixing clan and inner sphere mechs in a drop deck:

With the new weapons/tech coming out, timeline moves foward, no? by 3060, CSJ is dead, FRR and Ghost Bear are merging. Nova Cats and Clan Wolf in Exile are inner sphere factions with clan tech. Sea Foxes/Diamond sharks are selling mechs to everyone, salvage all over the place. it's time to dump the segregation of tech, and battle value will help determine balancing should any problems occur with that.

But come on, today we spent two hours talking about game balance, drop zones/dropship locations, and how to give out more rewards. Not a single piece of new content was mentioned other than something happening in July. No vision. No forward momentum. Highly discouraging. It seems both the player and the Devs are stuck in a box, can't see out, can't see that there's so many more possibilities. Sigh... As disappointing as the buckets podcast.

Edited by Peiper, 27 January 2017 - 08:02 PM.

[Hobbles v]

My thoughts on the topic of game mode variety.

https://mwomercs.com...y-mode-variety/

[Morticia Mellian]

How would an unit get a representative on these roundtables? At present, way to slanted to Merc and IS. Serious lack of Clan representation.


edit: Other points...

Not much talk about Scouting. With the Bushwacker in Scouting, need to allow Clans to use Stormcrows again.

Stop with the shotgun nerfing approach. 'HunchbackIIC is too annoying with poptarting, so lets nerf that and Huntsmans, and all JJ mechs!'

What is with the fixation on poptarting? At present and in the last six months, it really has not been a problem, and only done effectively by a small segment of players.

Solution to being able to select your spawn point and not have dropships intersecting.... Drop pods.

More love for Loyalists, whether with the skill tree, higher weight class, faction base quirks, etc. In turn, Mercs do not get those and get their own merc theme perks.

Does PGI have an actual QA team? As in, dedicated QA and now a Dev doing the testing?

Edited by Morticia Mellian, 27 January 2017 - 08:17 PM.

[SuperFunkTron]

To the PGI staff that is looking through this thread,

I would be more than happy to open a dialogue regarding the Faction perks and Faction Specific Mechs as well as ways to balance them appropriately to avoid a "meta" faction and to address the benefits that such systems would provide for the overall health and retained population in FP. I have a few posts in this thread already (main one is post 57 on page 3) with some of the ideas introduced. They are rough outlines and are designed to be a start point for the concepts to be discussed and further developed.

Thanks