Why don't we have like mini tournaments with specific rules guidelines? Solaris arena is not just one big end of the year tourney. It's circuits and seasons.
And this is where the part where pgi has to do some work... just program a tournament only arena where they can dictate conditions and mech loadouts. For example, people don't have the idea of restricted mechs. People hate the idea of always stock. So, maybe tournament A in April will be these mechs with restrictions on setup like in Battletech (no engine switch, only weapon modification)
Maybe tournament B can be like a light fest in October. Where you can't play anything BUT lights.
And for the love of god, just post your circuit schedule early, and just let people sign up for whatever they want to up to say.. 2 weeks before start of circuit tournament. No more of this "hey, go play as much as you want, and let EMP farm every single one of ya" Cause you know, that's always fun.
(single elim small tournaments that don't last more than a week, top)
4-5 tournaments yearly, tournament winner automatically gets a seat in the semi of the end of year tourney. Those are your one method of qualifying. And then you can still run your main qualifying tournament (with much better format than this of go figure it out amongst yourself, we will just some banner ads in october when nobody has one iota of interest left)
This way, people can sign up for tournaments that play to their strengths. It's not a burden to players that just wanna play. It keeps the interest up for the whole year. It's different and refreshing, rather than just 40 consecutive matches of canyon network where one side try to air strike and range the other team to oblivion.
Is that not more fun?
Edited by razenWing, 07 October 2018 - 06:37 PM.