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[dario03]

Could we get this? A drop down option where we could have check boxes like the servers have but instead it would have boxes for quick play, invasion, scouting. And then also have it so we can set a preference for which modes we want the most.

I ask because sometimes when playing during slower times a player or groups can end up searching for a very long time. This is especially true for the FP modes but I and some that I play with do like those modes. So instead of having to choose between waiting forever and then cancelling to redo the groups for a different mode it would be nice if we could just hit launch and get a game in any mode.

So for example my group would be marked as a all mode group with say scouting as primary, invasion as secondary, and qp final. So the players in my group would be limited to 4, need to be all Clan or all IS, and have mechs ready for all modes. However the game would search for a bit for scouting, then like the tiers in qp mm it would open up and add invasion, and then after a bit more time it would also search for qp. Whatever game it finds first is what we would end up playing.

Edited by dario03, 18 April 2017 - 06:28 PM.

[dario03]

So nobody else plays multiple modes?

[Deathlike]

"I don't have time for FP."

Scouting isn't worth the time (rewards suck), and FP tends to lock down more time than I'd want.

In other words, the current setup works, even if the other options suck.

Edited by Deathlike, 19 April 2017 - 03:50 PM.

[dario03]

Deathlike, on 19 April 2017 - 03:49 PM, said:

"I don't have time for FP."

Scouting isn't worth the time (rewards suck), and FP tends to lock down more time than I'd want.

In other words, the current setup works, even if the other options suck.

Well then you would just only select one option, no harm done.

Also scouting pays pretty well when theres enough playing to get match after match. They are often times quick matches and if you do most of the work you can make a lot. I just now finished a match that paid 210,000 before cbill bonus perks.

[Deathlike]

dario03, on 19 April 2017 - 04:01 PM, said:

Well then you would just only select one option, no harm done.

Also scouting pays pretty well when theres enough playing to get match after match. They are often times quick matches and if you do most of the work you can make a lot. I just now finished a match that paid 210,000 before cbill bonus perks.

I'm not saying that this isn't doable, but the likely defaulted behavior. You may indirectly gain a population increase for other modes (because queuing up for quick play doesn't queue you up elsewhere), but it would be akin to when Conquest was really bad and only a small minority selected it back when we did have mode picking options.

I do have bigger mechs to grind after all (the list grows).

[Vellron2005]

dario03, on 18 April 2017 - 02:29 PM, said:

Could we get this? A drop down option where we could have check boxes like the servers have but instead it would have boxes for quick play, invasion, scouting. And then also have it so we can set a preference for which modes we want the most.

I ask because sometimes when playing during slower times a player or groups can end up searching for a very long time. This is especially true for the FP modes but I and some that I play with do like those modes. So instead of having to choose between waiting forever and then cancelling to redo the groups for a different mode it would be nice if we could just hit launch and get a game in any mode.

So for example my group would be marked as a all mode group with say scouting as primary, invasion as secondary, and qp final. So the players in my group would be limited to 4, need to be all Clan or all IS, and have mechs ready for all modes. However the game would search for a bit for scouting, then like the tiers in qp mm it would open up and add invasion, and then after a bit more time it would also search for qp. Whatever game it finds first is what we would end up playing.

We used to have those, but since the playerbase is tiny, the MM was struggling, and wait times to get a match were too long.. ergo - map and mode voting.

[dario03]

Vellron2005, on 20 April 2017 - 01:23 AM, said:

We used to have those, but since the playerbase is tiny, the MM was struggling, and wait times to get a match were too long.. ergo - map and mode voting.

Thats not quite what I am talking about. I don't mean checkboxes for each QP mode, I mean check boxes to have the game search QP, and the 2 FP modes scouting and invasion. In other words if you or your group are open to play any kind of MWO and have the mechs ready you could just launch into any match. So if you want invasion instead of trying for that and waiting forever you would try for it, then after a while it would start searching the other modes then put you in a match.

Basically I'm asking for this because sometimes when playing at slow times I will be in a group and we will want to play scouting or invasion. So we will pick one, say scouting and start searching but after searching for a while (10+ minutes), we will decide that there must not be anybody playing it, so we will try invasion and search, then we will switch to QP and get stuck searching in that for a bit and finally get a match (or not and have to go solo but that doesn't happen as much). Hopefully with this change we wouldn't have to decide when enough is enough we could just let it search, and it would probably get more people in FP since I know some players that want to play but don't want to search forever, might help the QP MM some too.

Edited by dario03, 20 April 2017 - 02:29 PM.