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[Yanlowen Cage]

we got into a short fight at the beginning of the game and killed two of the other team. in doing so we lost about for seconds off our timer. with 56 seconds still left our medium/light lance ran off and began destroying A and B objective. So we were quickly back to 1 minute. now as we were down a lance we quickly got overwhelmed in the center. (no not directly in the center). thus eventually losing the game.

1st why would a whole lance run off to destroy those objectives?
2nd why would you find it so important to destroy those when we have 56 seconds left?

I have seen this behavior quite often. It doesn't make sense.

So please stop.

The end

[Roadbuster]

[The Unstoppable Puggernaut]

So flip it around and make it so destroying it reduces your countdown timer. Suddenly the objective becomes a bit more of a point if you cap first.

[Mechteric]

I kinda think they should just let killing the mobile bases increase the time beyond 60 seconds, that way it won't matter if some tard on your team does so when its not under or around 45 seconds.

Edited by CapperDeluxe, 01 February 2017 - 08:31 AM.

[RestosIII]

Because this.

[Bombast]

I saw that this weekend. I figure it's from sub-200 match people who don't know what the objectives in Domination actually do.

[Kanil]

Doesn't the objectives say "destroy truck = good"? Therefore they destroy truck, because good. You should be happy they did the good thing.

[Mystere]

CapperDeluxe, on 01 February 2017 - 08:31 AM, said:

I kinda think they should just let killing the mobile bases increase the time beyond 60 seconds, that way it won't matter if some tard on your team does so when its not under or around 45 seconds.

I think this is a good idea as it will probably apply more pressure on either side during a stalemate in the center.

As such, you might want to create a new topic here.

[Reverend Herring]

On a side note, would destroying your own generator(s) omit the enemy from resetting the timer? I mean, if a team would destroy it's own generators right at the beginning of the match (both counters still at 1 minute), the enemy could not destroy them later on.

Just wondering. Never tried it. Is there a penalty for this? I think there should be (like increasing the timer to go over the 1 minute mark etc.)

[Snazzy Dragon]

Reverend Herring, on 01 February 2017 - 10:04 PM, said:

On a side note, would destroying your own generator(s) omit the enemy from resetting the timer? I mean, if a team would destroy it's own generators right at the beginning of the match (both counters still at 1 minute), the enemy could not destroy them later on.

Just wondering. Never tried it. Is there a penalty for this? I think there should be (like increasing the timer to go over the 1 minute mark etc.)

there's a team damage penalty associated with it

[Beaching Betty]

"Braindead PUG"

What else?

[Reverend Herring]

Snazzy Dragon, on 02 February 2017 - 12:13 AM, said:

there's a team damage penalty associated with it

That makes sense. Thanks.

[Lykaon]

Yanlowen Cage, on 01 February 2017 - 06:45 AM, said:

we got into a short fight at the beginning of the game and killed two of the other team. in doing so we lost about for seconds off our timer. with 56 seconds still left our medium/light lance ran off and began destroying A and B objective. So we were quickly back to 1 minute. now as we were down a lance we quickly got overwhelmed in the center. (no not directly in the center). thus eventually losing the game.

1st why would a whole lance run off to destroy those objectives?
2nd why would you find it so important to destroy those when we have 56 seconds left?

I have seen this behavior quite often. It doesn't make sense.

So please stop.

The end

Because many if not most players of MWo are bad at tactics and critical thinking (to be honest most people are bad at these things)

Domination on most maps is best played totally differently from how it is typically played in the pug queue.

Typical match: everyone runs to the edge of the domination circle and starts to play poke and shoot.

A tactically viable match: Fastest two mechs hold the domination circle while the rest of the mechs in the drop form up and sweep in on a flank in one momentous push.

Domination is easily won by simply being more aggressive than hide and poke.