El Bandito, on 30 October 2017 - 07:39 PM, said:
this has nothing to do with the OP from the PO either tho
you cannot know if someone with more than 8 mechs will have brains. he can just buy them. and its even worse for people who actually do have the ability to play skilled to have to farm the first 4 mechbays. which is a bit hard without playing FP in the first place, if you do not pay, since you get the mechbays for playing there...
a general rule of thumb is, that a player who is usually more willing to learn a game in depth, and try to play smart and skilled, will be less willing to grind. Players who however are willing to grind and get a lot of things, usually tend not to improve in their gameplay or care about the teamwork.
It is a sad truth, and no matter how many mechs you take as entry point, you will always have bad players in the pug crowd.
competitive players should be exposed to FP rather sooner than later, since it is one of the points in the game they might decide its worth playing.
but i do agree, you should not be able to get into fp with trial mechs, so at least have a full owned dropdeck to join. chances are, most players will buy IS and Clan mechs mixed anyway at start, because they are so delighfully highlighted in the list somewhere as an entry in an obscure popup, so they might have to grind a bit anyway.
Also, i have seen, MWO has a special antidote against the lonely clueless pug. once a good leader enters, who just tells others what to do, people follow. As long as it is not toxic after-battle-criticism only, or useless "do not do this advice", but really orders that make sense, usually pugs can become a fun and strong team and even enjoy the round going down.
Just saying, I do not think the random trial mech user is your real problem, you just blame the immigrant.
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Anyway, all this has nothing to do with organized long range ER laser farming or similar, the OP is talking about. I don't like the obsession with long range weaponry anyway, and find if a weapon is intended for long range use, it should at least suffer in mid range downwards. for a fact, i do not like the whole IS vs. clan philosophy in FP. while the philosophy is interesting for fitting and mech lore, using only clans or only IS kinda calls out for abuse.
Edited by g4borg, 31 October 2017 - 04:10 AM.