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Jaybles, on 09 March 2017 - 10:38 AM, said:
We like the IP, so we invest in both clan and IS mechs. We like FP, so we choose the career path that lets us play both tech bases. And because of this we screw up FP?
Give me away to separate my $1500+ investment in this game between IS and clan and I'll gladly join a IS faction and clan faction. Unfortunately, PGI released clan mechs and packs before CW and the career system. If I'd known then what I know now, I would have split my investment between 2 accounts. Sadly, I was much to invested when PGI released the career paths with 3.0.
Don't blame mercs for playing the game. Blame PGI for making the loyalist path pointless and painful in relation to the game mechanics PGI implemented.
As clan, I play against IS groups everyday. Loyalist and merc. This past sunday I ran up against 3 different davions mixed 12 mans. (HHOD, C4, etc.) as well as a couple of mixed FFR hub 12 mans, and merc groups like AWOL. If us mercs screw it up, why are there so many 12 mans and groups dropping on both sides? If it's dying, why do I continue to see different groups of players everyday?
You keep quoting evidence from December when there was a massive clan population imbalance, (mostly as a consequence of 3.0 btw) but you seem unable to acknowledge that the two sides have balanced themselves out now population wise. And when one side does get a bit bloated, it usually levels out within a week because merc groups are constanly shifting for a variety of reasons. Some shift every week, some shift ever 2 weeks, some shift every month, some shift when a mech is released, some shift when they just get bored with one side, hell some shift everyday looking for the best fights. Having been a merc all along, I can tell you that with the units I've been in, "where can we farm the most potatoes?" was never a question that was asked in regards to shifting factions before 4.1 and now shifting sides. But I won't tell you that, because you won't believe me, after all, I'm screwing up CW by spending money on MWO and playing almost exclusively FW near everyday since FP 4.1 dropped.
OK, Pgi is mostly to blame for allowing mercs to do whatever they want with almost zero down side.
As for using all your mechs,how many loyalist do you think I only has one side worth of mechs? I have more pay clan mechs than I have paid for is mechs.
As for "massive clan population imbalance" there has always but once been one. That was when they buffed IS and some mercs got pissed and moved to IS side. Then not long after almost all of them move to IS( but that was just "coincidence"). Of course clans got pushed back to thier planets by ghosts drops. This was about the time MS got caught cheating using alt accounts to seed to Q but nothing really happen to them. (Or maybe this was little after)
Not long after IS got a 70+ mech nerf and they all moved to clans, again coincidence
Maybe we can have another round table with all mercs but 1 loyalist lol
Edited by Monkey Lover, 09 March 2017 - 11:18 AM.
