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[KingCobra]

I have to ask PGI could you remove the VOTE MM SYSTEM and just go back to random maps and game modes per battle?

Week after week every night same maps same game modes are played it is so boring now its beyond a joke .

PGI just go back to the random map and game mode system it was much better and we ex least got to play all the maps and game modes every night.

Edited by KingCobra, 30 January 2018 - 09:11 AM.

[Bombast]

Democracy was a mistake.

[KingCobra]

Bombast, on 30 January 2018 - 09:11 AM, said:

Democracy was a mistake.

Its beyond a joke the system is so abused.

[Nameless King]

Random Maps and Modes would be best.

[DaZur]

Oh you should have heard to outrage voiced over being FORCED to play a certain map or mode or a combination of the two when it was all random...

As much as I agree with you (quite frankly I've stopped voting most of the time) the voices of discontent and the number of DCs you'd see would be deafening.

Ya see... Certain folks are so bound to the meta and a particular playstyle, they just can't abide with having to improvise and adapt.

[KingCobra]

DaZur, on 30 January 2018 - 09:22 AM, said:

Oh you should have heard to outrage voiced over being FORCED to play a certain map or mode or a combination of the two when it was all random...

As much as I agree with you (quite frankly I've stopped voting most of the time) the voices of discontent and the number of DCs you'd see would be deafening.

Ya see... Certain folks are so bound to the meta and a particular playstyle, they just can't abide with having to improvise and adapt.

I would say to bad get over it and learn to play the maps all of them.

[El Bandito]

King Alen, on 30 January 2018 - 09:19 AM, said:

Random Maps and Modes would be best.

Only after Escort is removed.

[Luminis]

KingCobra, on 30 January 2018 - 09:30 AM, said:

I would say to bad get over it and learn to play the maps all of them.

They don't. They AFK or suicide, leaving either team with a most certain loss.

However, I do agree that seeing Plexus, Polar, Frozen and Tourmaline in 95% of my games gets tedious.

[Helsbane]

Luminis, on 30 January 2018 - 09:44 AM, said:

They don't. They AFK or suicide, leaving either team with a most certain loss.

However, I do agree that seeing Plexus, Polar, Frozen and Tourmaline in 95% of my games gets tedious.

Or Canyon Network. Seriously, I'm there so often I'm thinking of just having my mail forwarded...

[K O Z A K]

only if we can select mech/loadout after map/mode is determined

otherwise you'll just see most ppl use gauss vomit and nothing else because it kind of works everywhere

[Luminis]

Helsbane, on 30 January 2018 - 09:48 AM, said:

Or Canyon Network. Seriously, I'm there so often I'm thinking of just having my mail forwarded...

Lucky you.

I love that map and it actually gets a lot of votes whenever it pops up, but if I had to break it down, I'd say my map distribution looks like this, lately:

• 20% Grim Plexus
  
• 15% Frozen City
  
• 15% Polar Highlands
  
• 10% Tourmaline Desert
  
• 10% HPG Manifold
  
• 10% Rubelite Oasis
  
• 5% Canyon Network
  
• 5% Mining Collective
  
• 5% Crimson Strait
  
• 5% Other (Terra Therma, Forest Colony, River City, Alpine Peaks, Viridian Bog)

[Nameless King]

El Bandito, on 30 January 2018 - 09:42 AM, said:

Only after Escort is removed.

If we get random maps and modes I am willing to cut escort.

Escort could be fixed, they just need to add a vip to both sides so not both sides have to defend and attack. Also add the path the vip is going to take on the mini map so we can actually escort the vip.

[R Valentine]

I'll never understand why they didn't do random mode/maps and allow you to pick your mech after you know both. It just makes absolutely no sense. Because you don't know what map or mode you're going to get, it makes way more sense to play generalist mechs than it does specialized mechs. Brawlers get screwed on a lot of maps, so why take a brawler at all if you're chances of getting Polar Highlands is fairly high? Instead we end up with all Deathstrikes as the assault lance. Why? Because Deathstrike can play any map at peak, or near peak, effectiveness.

[Nameless King]

Helsbane, on 30 January 2018 - 09:48 AM, said:

Or Canyon Network. Seriously, I'm there so often I'm thinking of just having my mail forwarded...

I almost never get Canyon.

Hazeclaw, on 30 January 2018 - 09:50 AM, said:

only if we can select mech/loadout after map/mode is determined

otherwise you'll just see most ppl use gauss vomit and nothing else because it kind of works everywhere

No no and no. Also lots of things work everywhere if you know how to play.

[Nameless King]

Kiran Yagami, on 30 January 2018 - 10:01 AM, said:

I'll never understand why they didn't do random mode/maps and allow you to pick your mech after you know both. It just makes absolutely no sense. Because you don't know what map or mode you're going to get, it makes way more sense to play generalist mechs than it does specialized mechs. Brawlers get screwed on a lot of maps, so why take a brawler at all if you're chances of getting Polar Highlands is fairly high? Instead we end up with all Deathstrikes as the assault lance. Why? Because Deathstrike can play any map at peak, or near peak, effectiveness.

I play brawlers all the time, Polar is my best W/L record.

[Mike McSullivan]

...and while you are at it (removing the minigame) please remove the Ready-up screens. Makes no sense, since noone is chatting or talking about tactics of any kind. maybe keep it in groupQ (dont know if ppl chat there^^)

[K O Z A K]

King Alen, on 30 January 2018 - 10:03 AM, said:

I almost never get Canyon.



No no and no. Also lots of things work everywhere if you know how to play.

Unfortunately if your opponents also know how to play lots of things don't work everywhere

[NRP]

Nope. We tried random maps. Everyone DC'd when crap maps like Terra Therma came up, leaving the remaining teammates at a disadvantage. I'd rather play decent maps over and over than be forced to play a garbage map like Terra Therma.

[M34T]

I would say your in the minority on this, the general consensus is that most players want the CoD or Battlefield style map/mode choice. I've also heard people complain about the map multiplier system and how it's not fair. Please voice your opinions, that's how the developers know something is in need of a revision.
As far as going random and then being allowed to choose your loadout, you think you have a problem with boredom now! Wait until it's just endless games of the same mech/loadout on the same maps all the time. You do have a logical point, you don't send your desert troops to a mountain range but on the other hand your troops are trained to fight and survive in all weather and terrain. However in MWO QP, your more of an all purpose force or a fast response force. There is also the fact of all the different worlds you could find yourself on so it's not much of a stretch to only know the details of what your dropping on at the time of the drop.

[Mystere]

King Alen, on 30 January 2018 - 10:00 AM, said:

Escort could be fixed, they just need to add a vip to both sides so not both sides have to defend and attack. Also add the path the vip is going to take on the mini map so we can actually escort the vip.

I disagree. I'm tired of the symmetrical nonsense.