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[Naqser]

The thing that "plagues" QP in my opinion is Sync Dropping to bypass the tonnage limits. This kind of unbalance the matches when it's not that rare to see matches with 6+ assaults, or even 8+ assaults.

So, one thing that'd be interesting to see would be an Event in which players group up in order to receive prizes. For instance:

Full Group: Play 10 matches in a 12-man with a score of atleast 80 matchpoints.

Jousting: Play 10 matches in a 4-man group with a score of atelast 80 matchpoints.

Lance Down: Get 20 Lance in Formation

My buddy and I: Get 20 Kill Assists

Personal Challenges oriented towards helping the team.
Would be interesting seeing the tonnages be evened out.

[LTDominator]

nope

[Naqser]

LTDominator, on 06 May 2017 - 08:57 PM, said:

nope

Because it'd be difficult for players to find groups to play with despite the LFG button in the lower right corner?
Because we don't want to group up?
Because T1 groups would stomp Pugs? (As if that doesn't happen atm)
Because some horses are brown instead of grey?
What exactly?

[LTDominator]

look for a unit and drop with them or visit a open MWO teamspeak to join a group, just that simple. since the matchmaker struggle to balance teams, in group there is a way better chance to get good matches with skilled players playing as a team. setting up an event like this and you have random pugs vs random pugs again like in solo drop. so the team players get much more "pain in the butt" matches while the event is running.

[Zigmund Freud]

There was this kind of event before there was LFG button. It's quite fun. Don't know about tonage issue, but it did make people who usually solo que play in groups, it was interesting, and let you find nice group to play with, even after the challange.

[Naqser]

LTDominator, on 07 May 2017 - 11:08 AM, said:

look for a unit and drop with them or visit a open MWO teamspeak to join a group, just that simple. since the matchmaker struggle to balance teams, in group there is a way better chance to get good matches with skilled players playing as a team. setting up an event like this and you have random pugs vs random pugs again like in solo drop. so the team players get much more "pain in the butt" matches while the event is running.

Do you think this suggestion stems from an inability to find team mates to play with?

Yeah I am well aware that the MM system struggle to balance teams, especially if it has to take into account tonnages and tiers, the latter which matter little to the MM when it groups people up.
Having an event, or as a feature suggestion I posted earlier, more groups would be larger and thus at least tonnages between team would be easier to match up and as such provide a more fair matchup in the sense of tonnages, skill is another question entirely, which would be easier to do when there are more groups of the same size.

You do realize that team players atm who opt for larger groups get the bad end of the draw when they face a large group synch dropping as smaller groups in order to bypass their true tonnage restriction and have the ability to bring heavier mechs.

Take one 12-man group vs three groups of 4-man.
That's max 600 tons vs max 1020 tons,
Or even a 12-man vs two groups of 6-man
600 max vs 810 max.

While it is personal experience and thus not verifiable, I have seen quite a few matches when I've been in 12-man groups against synch drops having 6 or even 8 assaults in their group.