Phoolan Devi, on 09 January 2018 - 04:27 AM, said:
I don't know what you did wrong, but it must've been massive if you think you had to grind less as a new player under the old system!
I had to redact what I wanted to say..........to answer you... Apologies.
I was a new player, played all of the previous MW games, bought 1 mech series of 6 vehicles (NTG's) and it was taking a while to master them but,
the long grind was pretty fun actually. It took at least a 100 matches to start. I had a
great performing mech series to break your teeth on. It was fun! (Feb to May 20017).
Fast forward to May. Oh my God.... PGI massively nerf'd the NTG's: they became ANH ponderous and forced right out of the premium heavy mech class into being a pop-tarting/sniping platform only. The new skill tree was then attempted on the mechs I picked up
to replace the retired NTG's.... No historic points. No premium time; and, I just finished grinding freaking yesterday as a matter of fact on the last un-mastered mech (I have 20 mechs I purchased or was rewarded with.) That's 7 months of insane grinds; sometimes, as said earlier in the thread,
well over 100 games per vehicle. We are not all Elite players with large teams to "farm" with you !!! Some of us, did it on our own and, to be honest, a complete un-recommendable misery. The CW patched in and the team I am on gave up MWO as the "first game" and it got a lot worse. You do understand that: gave up MWO as their "go to" game.....
We lose new players every month and, as I have said before many times, I work at a large University with a "Gaming Union" where gamers of all types meet to play, demo new or old games, recruit and hang out (VG corporation reps often visit since we have a Sim programming degree program to recruit). Hundreds of players and I've demo'd MWO to large groups to include, since it is required if you are demo'ing a new game, the learning curves.hacks and the grind facts.... 0 new recruits for MWO, zero....... I was hoping to start a school team; and, we actually have, in a outer-space game.....any questions as to why???
I'm glad it is easy for you and a lot of better players ! I really am.... It's just a shame that we can't expand the player base because the game
is anti-new player; and, if you doubt that, read the warning to FP.......it doesn't get any dumber than that and, to make it worse, take a new player out as a team and have the entire team get devastatingly farmed, massacred three or four drops in a row...
Good luck with that recruiting tool....
Edited by Asym, 09 January 2018 - 08:32 AM.