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[lazorbeamz]

Why do they nascar to the right all the time?

Maybe because the Earth rotates to the right?
The same reason why helixes are always right handed?
Vortexes are always right handed.
Most humans are right handed.

There must be some fundamental physics behind the fact that MWO lemmings always propel themselves counter clockwise.

Edited by lazorbeamz, 20 April 2018 - 03:49 AM.

[w4ldO]

most mechs have the bigger part of their weapons on the right side.
RL NASCAR drives counterclock, too

[lazorbeamz]

And the people who designed said mechs did choose them to be right handed for SOME reason. So in the end the underlining reason for right sided nascar is fundamental.

Edited by lazorbeamz, 20 April 2018 - 03:54 AM.

[Flutterguy]

Natural selection. The people who went left died leaving only the people who go right.

[LowSubmarino]

Theres always a percentage that runs left and instadies vs huge army of team red.

Theres always a percentage that runs left and instadies vs huge army of team red.

Theres always a percentage that runs left and instadies vs huge army of team red.

Theres always a percentage that runs left and instadies vs huge army of team red.

[ChapeL]

If 100% of the team decides to go left instead. They will catch the enemy off guard however.

[Lily from animove]

nascars, maybe because it is more safe, because if you bump sideways into the wall it doesn#t hits the driver side.

Vortexes on the southern hemnisphere go left around.

right handed actually means your left brain is in major control of your body. Because below your head, brain body controls is crossed.

And counterclockwise is a thing in MWO, because many IS mechs have a heavier right sided loadout hardpointwise, and going clockwise would mean exposing most wepaons AFTER your mechs body, not very well working. Symmetric clanmechs for example could go both ways, but since there is a chance of meeting right sided IS mechs with their more powerful side firts, they also go counter clockwise.

[Angel of Annihilation]

It is pretty simple. 90% of the people in the world are right handed and 66% are right eye dominant. Also at least in the United States, we are taught nearly from birth that you walk on the right, always enter through the right side door if their are two doors, drive on the right hand side of the road, etc. This translates into a near unconscious tendency to drift to the right whenever there is movement involved. Basically it is just a more comfortable to move to the right than the left. Hell I wouldn't doubt that linguistically, the reason we use the word "Right" to describe a direction, is because it is the other definition of right is the opposite or wrong.

[Alexandra Hekmatyar]

Because if you go left to much you end up being commies killing and starving each other off instead of killing the enemy.

[Xiphias]

It originated back around the time of the Highlander, Cataphract poptart meta. Highlander builds are naturally right stacked (due to hardpoint locations). When your weapons are on the right you want to peak from the right because you present the least mech necessary to get your weapons out. If you rotate clockwise (left) you have to expose the left side of your mech before you can get your weapons to bear and you will lose trades.

Side stacked highlanders caused the current rotation direction and it continues in part for the same reasons, but mainly out of habit now.

Edited by Xiphias, 20 April 2018 - 05:43 AM.

[yrrot]

"I wanna go fast and turn left"

It's called nascar for a reason...

[lazorbeamz]

Lily from animove, on 20 April 2018 - 04:42 AM, said:

nascars, maybe because it is more safe, because if you bump sideways into the wall it doesn#t hits the driver side.

Vortexes on the southern hemnisphere go left around.

right handed actually means your left brain is in major control of your body. Because below your head, brain body controls is crossed.

And counterclockwise is a thing in MWO, because many IS mechs have a heavier right sided loadout hardpointwise, and going clockwise would mean exposing most wepaons AFTER your mechs body, not very well working. Symmetric clanmechs for example could go both ways, but since there is a chance of meeting right sided IS mechs with their more powerful side firts, they also go counter clockwise.

By right handed i mean not ambedextreous ofc. When one direction is prevalent. You can find a lot of examples in nature and physics. And all of that somehow translated into MWO with counter clockwise nascar. That is impressive

The asymmetry. If i remember correclty, amino acids also prefer to be right (or left?) handed. In any case they are not ambidextrous. In both hemispheres.

Edited by lazorbeamz, 20 April 2018 - 05:57 AM.

[GuardDogg]

I wrote a threat like this many years ago. Comes to the conclusion, if a team goes right (or both teams). They have no strategy, fun. Their will be times, you will get someone..."Any plans?" I have came up with a plan, Idea, and told team here what I have. Half (or so) of the team will follow your plan, others will go right, or head on, and the plan fails. Then you/team gets blamed for that idea at the end (then a quick disconnection from that player blaming team). No one takes command anymore, but then some will go blaming for not saying a word. So, when teams go right, their is no plan. Been like this since Alpha, beta and for years. It is a huge problem.

Here was my thread with the problem (do not reply to it.).

https://mwomercs.com...-right-tactics/

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Edited by GuardDogg, 20 April 2018 - 06:19 AM.

[Angel of Annihilation]

Honestly what just boggles my mind is that such an obvious fail tactic continues to persist. I mean teams will continue to rotate even when it mean rotating into an inferior position or blatant death trap. I also don't understand the point between swapping sides with zero engagement happening prior to the swap. I mean I have seen it happen where the team on the Citadel side of River city will rotate away from the massive strong point of the citadel and give it up to the enemy, just because I guess.

Normally such fail tactics eventually get figured out by the players and the tactic will mostly die away as people slowly develop a better way to win however the NASCAR persists even on maps that don't lend themselves to NASACR. It is just crazy.

[Jack Booted Thug]

Viktor Drake, on 20 April 2018 - 06:35 AM, said:

Honestly what just boggles my mind is that such an obvious fail tactic continues to persist.

It's only a failure for the losing team if both are doing it.

[R Valentine]

I hear in Australia they NASCAR the other way.

[Angel of Annihilation]

Jack Booted Thug, on 20 April 2018 - 06:54 AM, said:

It's only a failure for the losing team if both are doing it.

No, it is a failure for both teams because inevitablly your mechs with the most firepower either get caught by the other team or end up being ineffective because they are too focused on moving rather than fighting. The only winner is the faster mechs on the team and then only half of them become a winner because one side has to lose. Basically it ends up a fail tactic for 75% of the players each and every match if you really want to get down to it and worse, it isn't even that much fun.

Edited by Viktor Drake, 20 April 2018 - 09:13 AM.

[Nightbird]

Nascar ensures that the LRM boats and snipers contribute to the match. Always Nascar!