Fp Weekly Report - Mar 22-2019
#1
Posted 22 March 2019 - 04:23 PM
As mentioned in the Global Update, the Faction Play Update will be delayed by a month (i.e. coming in the May patch).
The root cause was the extent of the Match Maker revision and how deep the code had to go to achieve what is required. The Match Maker revision has come along since the Global Update and is a few days from core completion so internal QA can look at it.
While this is happening, the code base for the Event System is being worked on sequentially after the Match Maker work is done. This is basically because the MM work needs to be completed for the Event System to work correctly.
I can take this moment to also announce that we are tentatively targeting the week of April 2nd to be a potential first pass of a PTS of the Faction Play Update. If we are unable to do it the week of April 2nd, it will be the following week.
"But Paul.. what about April 1st?"
Quit calling me "but Paul" and I don't want people to think this is an April Fools prank.
Since I'll be updating every Friday, knowing which week PTS will actually fall on will be clarified as we get completion of the systems involved.
-Paul
#2
Posted 22 March 2019 - 04:56 PM
You should totally do a PTS on April 1st where when everyone logs into PTS they can only use urbanmechs. That seems like a pretty good stress tester of the event system to me...
1st annual urbie derby.
#3
Posted 22 March 2019 - 04:58 PM
Paul Inouye, on 22 March 2019 - 04:23 PM, said:
"But Paul.. what about April 1st?"
Quit calling me "but Paul" and I don't want people to think this is an April Fools prank.
… You don't want us to think this is an April Fool's prank … this soon.
#4
Posted 22 March 2019 - 05:42 PM
#6
Posted 22 March 2019 - 07:22 PM
#7
Posted 22 March 2019 - 07:41 PM
#8
Posted 22 March 2019 - 09:21 PM
#9
Posted 22 March 2019 - 10:25 PM
GweNTLeR, on 22 March 2019 - 09:21 PM, said:
Eh... They could throw an Event on the PTS that gives Rewards to the Live Account afterward. That would forcibly draw a lot of attention, unlike how Events were launched on the Live Servers during the Missile PTS that recently happened.
Paul Inouye, on 22 March 2019 - 04:23 PM, said:
Hello, Paul... I just had a thought for you, which would satisfy a lot of the Community in one clean shot. Heck, it might even help with making your Code-Writing Work easy, albeit that I don't entirely know that for sure. (I'm just trying to be optimistic, so please read on!)
You could potentially design the FW ("Faction Warfare", also referrable to as "Faction Play") Special Event Handling -- including Drop Deck Setup -- as being completely agnostic of a particular Pilot's current choice of Faction Affiliation setting. This would completely circumvent & remove the Issues that have been making Loyalists and Units angry over the current state of FW Special Events and how they're handled. All it would take is a couple pairs of the "Fight Now" & "Scout Now" Buttons, with one pair of them being for each side of the Battle that's running during a FW Special Event. Beyond that, stop limiting the Drop Deck configuration at any time by a person's current Faction Affiliation setting, as some have trusted that to their Unit Leader's choices and has its' own ramifications. With that done, that part would be totally out of the way, and the MatchMaker could be more easily focused upon without having to try to bend either it or the FW Special Event Handling around each other anywhere near quite so much.
So, what do you think of this slightly more loose-styled idea? I'm realizing that this could even allow for easy launch on some of those "Civil Wars" that were supposed to arrive with that Era's Weapons and such.
EDIT :: By the way, I almost forgot to mention... This idea would not be meant to affect the Drop Deck Restrictions on the Main Conflict Battles. We are pre-agreed on not allowing Clanners to take an Inner Sphere Drop Deck into the Main Conflict Battles, and vice versa with not allowing Inner Sphere to take a Clan Drop Deck into the Main Conflict Battles. This is literally only meant to diffuse the problem with Faction Affiliation when considered around Special Events.
...and pardon me while I vanish into the shadows... for now.
~D. V. "just trying to build simplistic & hard-to-corrupt solutions where none may have seemed present before" Devnull
Edited by D V Devnull, 22 March 2019 - 10:32 PM.
#10
Posted 22 March 2019 - 10:44 PM
I play FP every single day... a lot of that is waiting for a lobby, ghost dropping and other symptoms of too low a player population.
So I think you will need to put in place incentives to get enough players onto a FP PTS. Please consider.
#12
Posted 23 March 2019 - 12:56 AM
I am with Devnull and Appogee here. Get a nice Event on the PTS with the prices injected to the live account. Think u did something similar a while ago that worked pretty well.
#savecommunitywarfare
#makecwgreatagain
#idontknowhowhashtagswork
Grim out
#13
Posted 23 March 2019 - 01:29 AM
Thank you for the update. I and my friends really appreciate this. Look forward to further updates eagerly. No buts about it.
#14
Posted 23 March 2019 - 01:30 AM
GrimmigerPetz, on 23 March 2019 - 12:56 AM, said:
I am with Devnull and Appogee here. Get a nice Event on the PTS with the prices injected to the live account. Think u did something similar a while ago that worked pretty well.
#savecommunitywarfare
#makecwgreatagain
#idontknowhowhashtagswork
Grim out
I know I will sound irrational, but... snapshot accounts, stop the Premium Time passage, shut down live servers and go 100 % PTS Faction play only. I know it sounds crazy, but that would help populate the PTS server.
#15
Posted 23 March 2019 - 01:49 AM
#16
Posted 23 March 2019 - 02:01 AM
You will almost certainly have to incentivize the PTS to get the numbers for FW, but then again, ALL PTS's should be incentivized by default. Why would someone spend time on the PTS if they get nothing in return?
This community is pretty good about being involved in the continued development of MWO, but it's also difficult to give up hours of regular play time where rewards are earned for nothing.
#17
Posted 23 March 2019 - 02:24 AM
Paul Inouye, on 22 March 2019 - 04:23 PM, said:
I agree with some of the others who said that PTS needs to be incentivized so that people will try it out. More people would mean a better matchmaker. I suggest that loyalty medallions (faction chosen by player) be given out to help alleviate how long it takes to grind a faction ladder, else maybe c-bills or MC.
#19
Posted 23 March 2019 - 04:26 AM
#20
Posted 23 March 2019 - 04:35 AM
Also,if traditional PTS are 4v4 to make them viable, how is that going to work in an FP PTS, where the 12v12 aspect is kind of essential to the whole point of the mode and seemingly pretty key to the MM changes?
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