calmdawn, on 23 April 2018 - 11:34 PM, said:
Why to continue measuring drop deck in weight?
Maybe there is an other way?
War thunder does it pretty well but in that situation each vehicle has *1* loadout, maybe with minor changes to gun etc. but they are minor.
The problem with MWO is that builds vary wildly even on the same chassis variant.
You could give certain weapons performance values but that is obscured by the mobility / armour of the mech it is loaded on so that wouldnt work either.
The only choice they hreally have left is quirks / individual weapon tweaks to balance and then adjust by tonnage. This still isnt perfect and results in the comp divisions having specific rules to restrict certain loadout items, mech combinations etc. in order to make matches more balanced but even here you quickly find a "meta" team composition which just out performs anything else.
The problem with any sandbox design element is that the community will always find ways of manipulating the game rules in ways which were unexpected so the result becomes that the community balances itself by having a "meta" which generally becomes controlled by PGI in this case with fairly blunt instruments.
Tonnage is one of these blunt tools but because certain mechs perform better than the rest of their weight bracket (or worse) it rarely has the intended effect as the meta just cycles around specific mechs and builds which fit in to the new weight restrictions.
Interestingly though I play IS exclusively in FP and my deck rarely uses all the tonnage, im usually 5 or 10 tons short for most decks or sometimes more depending on the game mode etc.
I have seen the clan players failing to make good use of the tonnage so far, just increasing the weight of their LRM boats rather than actually thinking about what the current meta builds are and trying to get them to fit in to the new weight limit, this wastes the extra weight they have been given.
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