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[Carl Vickers]

A good idea Tarl but wont work all the time as in the Oceanic TZ there are not always groups on both sides.

[justcallme A S H]

Tarl Cabot, on 09 March 2017 - 04:14 PM, said:

One way to work that would have another check box, if 8+ group/unit wait x amount of time for another 8+ unit to drop. Or an active lobby/UI piece where units can indicate looking for unit drops, and those that have selected to be situated as such but are in a drop would show how long they have been in a drop and K/D count. As units ready up, it looks first if in setup then fills up the open slots w/pugs and drops those teams who have readied up. Of course, if one side has 2 teams ready to go and the other side has 4 teams, at least in 2 drops units would not know the exact team they are being dropped against.

Just thinking outside the box to allow large unit groups a way to try to drop against another large unit group...

I hear IS won the last 2 Euro Phases as well

[Fiachdubh]

Well this is disappointing. It has been a while since I last played but I have never been able to get into a FP match. When I saw the email trying to sell me a civil war pack I figured they must have fully FP up and running smoothly, otherwise they are just pushing the timeline forward and selling more content for a game that, despite being released over three years ago, is still confined to meaningless variations of death match.

Edited by Fiachdubh, 14 March 2017 - 01:31 PM.

[ForumWarri0r]

Today saw the first 8 hour attack phase where the IS didn't win a single match, balance is fine, working as intended, time to move on.

[Christophe Ivanov]

Lately, I see mostly scouting which I do. I have only won one FP match doing this. As for Invasion, I have only won again only one match. f I were to play more, I would love t be able to choose which mech I have which I know which part of the FP I am doing. NOT before.

Example: If I were to DEFEND the orbital cannon, then let me optimize my selection just for that and vise-versa. Same should go for QL too.
Can you play without Team speak? I do 100% of the time and not by preference, but because I have no choice too. Not equipped for team chat and mostly because I cant hear well to begin with. Having said all this, is there a place for me in FP on a Clan or IS faction? I'm not so sure if they relay on 100% team speak ad not wanting a player who never is on team speak?

I'd love to hear your opinions on this?

Thanks folks!

Edited by Christophe Ivanov, 16 March 2017 - 10:53 AM.

[justcallme A S H]

Christophe Ivanov, on 16 March 2017 - 10:52 AM, said:

f I were to play more, I would love t be able to choose which mech I have which I know which part of the FP I am doing. NOT before.

Example: If I were to DEFEND the orbital cannon, then let me optimize my selection just for that and vise-versa. Same should go for QL too.

It tells you if you are defending or attacking before you drop. Just look at the screen while in lobby. You then select the mechs from that.

Edited by justcallme A S H, 16 March 2017 - 12:21 PM.

[SuperFunkTron]

Is anyone else having trouble getting a FP match lately? I've tried 4 days in a row in the NA evening hours and have waited up to 20 minutes multiple times before canceling. Is it only groups getting in now or do I just have bad timing when I'm trying to PUG in FP?

[Carl Vickers]

Mercs have shifted causing an imbalance in population on Clan side. Hope some shift out soon. For the last 2 weeks AW0L has not had any issues getting a match as IS, shifted to Clans yesterday and ghost drops galore.

[Danjo San]

Carl Vickers, on 16 March 2017 - 03:30 PM, said:

Mercs have shifted causing an imbalance in population on Clan side. Hope some shift out soon. For the last 2 weeks AW0L has not had any issues getting a match as IS, shifted to Clans yesterday and ghost drops galore.

nothing new

[justcallme A S H]

SuperFunkTron, on 16 March 2017 - 03:12 PM, said:

Is anyone else having trouble getting a FP match lately? I've tried 4 days in a row in the NA evening hours and have waited up to 20 minutes multiple times before canceling. Is it only groups getting in now or do I just have bad timing when I'm trying to PUG in FP?

Yep too many Mercs have stacked Clan this week. Half of them can't play IS properly anyway, they want EZ mode, so they sit eternal Clan side as Mercs

We were same as AW0L - IS was deluxe for a fortnight. We are doing 2 weeks on/off. However given the amount of ghost drops and stupid wait times, I understand we are going back to IS early next week. Hopefully a few other Merc units do that and balance it out a bit.

I am already fearful of how long the search time is going to be during weekend US prime time... I would expect 30mins+ given how it's been stacked this week. NFI why either, not even a new mech out!

Danjo San, on 16 March 2017 - 03:38 PM, said:

nothing new

lol nothing new... Just how it goes sometimes given PGI doesn't calculate population correctly so no-one has any idea what is going on to even try and balance it.

There were 4-5 other Merc units I drop with all IS for the past fortnight. It was good, everyone got fast games the last 2 weeks. Clan wait was only 5mins apparently, so, balanced enough.

In fact we were ghost dropping hard 4 weeks ago as IS because the Clan Loyalist LRM boaters kept getting flogged like a redheaded stepchild, so they just stopped playing (which is both sad and funny at the same time).

Edited by justcallme A S H, 16 March 2017 - 03:46 PM.

[Commander A9]

Doesn't seem dead to me...we got matches tonight.

[Xaat Xuun]

was in a match till the server disconnected me, .. currently in a 20+ minute wait searching
earlier in the day, searching is less then five

switched to my IS account thought maybe speed things up, but nope .. still searching.
there is no more population

[nehebkau]

Xaat Xuun, on 16 March 2017 - 11:25 PM, said:

switched to my IS account thought maybe speed things up, but nope .. still searching.
there is no more population

It's pretty much dead outside the North American prime-time window.

[Bjorn Coston]

Almost my entire friends list is Clan right meow. Which explains the wait for Clan. IS most likely isn't playing because they're probably tired of getting stomped so that may explain the wait for IS as well.

[Christophe Ivanov]

I was in a IS invasion match last night. I got ONE kill in with my Bushmaster and it was a truly lopsided loss for IS Unit. After my second mech loss, the score was 26 Clan to 4 IS. By the time I got in my last mech, a King Crab, it was pretty much a lost match. I lasted the longest in my Spider just because I could move around faster.

Balanced? might be, but was kinda a crap shoot on my side
All-in-all, the last 5 matches I played for IS invasion was a lopsided loss. So I'll wait to play Clan invasion or stick to Scouting which is fun.

[FallingAce]

Definitely a clam problem. Call to arms for both invasion and scouting the whole time i was logged in last night.

Too many grab bags to get to be bothered with F.W.

[justcallme A S H]

Christophe Ivanov, on 17 March 2017 - 10:23 AM, said:

I was in a IS invasion match last night. I got ONE kill in with my Bushmaster and it was a truly lopsided loss for IS Unit. After my second mech loss, the score was 26 Clan to 4 IS. By the time I got in my last mech, a King Crab, it was pretty much a lost match. I lasted the longest in my Spider just because I could move around faster.

Balanced? might be, but was kinda a crap shoot on my side
All-in-all, the last 5 matches I played for IS invasion was a lopsided loss. So I'll wait to play Clan invasion or stick to Scouting which is fun.

That is your problem right there.

You dropped your assault last.

Don't ever do that again.

[xX PUG Xx]

No idea what has been said before (TL:DR) but the wait times on Clan is just redonkulous....one match in over an hour and still waiting for our second game.

The fact we can no longer see where we are in the queue, yet alone choose what planet we are going to attack/defend, is one of my main bug bears of 4.1. I wish the queue screen was re-instituted, at least to give a visual representation of where the group is in the queue.

[justcallme A S H]

Hopefully some of the Mercs see the light and head IS in 3-4 days, 54MR will be.

The wait times are absurd.

The main issue is the way PGI calculates population/contract percentage. It's not even close to accurate, causing all these problems. If people could actually SEE the imbalance, Units could select contracts accordingly... Especially given our Clan contract at the moment - is a POSITIVE bonus... lol.

Edited by justcallme A S H, 17 March 2017 - 04:06 PM.

[xX PUG Xx]

Aye we (IDI) are swapping to IS tomorrow, in approx 14 hours, however it doesn't change the fact that we have no REAL way of gauging where we are fighting, whether we will have an opponent or if we are wasting our gaming time.

Edited by xX PUG Xx, 17 March 2017 - 04:23 PM.