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[1Exitar1]

Ever started a match and get to the screen where it lists the people in the battle and predict if you are going to win or lose just by the people you see listed?

I do almost every single match. Seems like I'm correct most of the time too. Which is not a good thing.

[Flyby215]

I think we all do that.

Sometimes the names we recognize are in a group, so inevitably on the same team. It bothers me when said names are apparently (or at least appears to be) playing solo but still stacked to one side: that would suggest a matchmaking problem.

Alternatively; I know when I see certain players on the enemy team I know it's probably going to be a fun match (42, BAGr, frenemies) or the enemy will have a very specific mech (Taekwonv [sp?], Vyx).

Edit: Corrected a typo.

Edited by Flyby215, 21 March 2025 - 08:28 PM.

[Dasha Wayne]

1Exitar1, on 21 March 2025 - 08:20 PM, said:

Ever started a match and get to the screen where it lists the people in the battle and predict if you are going to win or lose just by the people you see listed?

I do almost every single match. Seems like I'm correct most of the time too. Which is not a good thing.

So far being kinda new I can't predict a match based on player names but I'm starting to see a pattern with the amount of enemie kills vs your teams kills.

[martian]

Dasha Wayne, on 21 March 2025 - 08:56 PM, said:

So far being kinda new I can't predict a match based on player names but I'm starting to see a pattern with the amount of enemie kills vs your teams kills.

KursedVixen, please stop using your sock puppet accounts Heat Skink and Dasha Wayne to pretend that you are a new player.

Thank you.

Heat Skink, on 12 June 2024 - 02:45 PM, said:

I'm new so i don't have many mechs to use... not to mention i'm out of mechbays..

Heat Skink, on 07 June 2024 - 08:20 AM, said:

Why is this a 'leak' why can't this information be public? (new player btw)

a 'leak' implies it's hidden why are such details hidden from the playerbase at large?

Your "I am a new player" trick is getting old ...

Edited by martian, 22 March 2025 - 07:11 AM.

[CFC Conky]

If not by looking a the players before the match, about a minute into it generally tells me how things are going to end.


Good hunting,
CFC Conky

[Equuleus]

Frankly, why should you see the enemy's names in a battle sim? It is not a battle sim like that at all and is more like a murder plot?

And then, when your community gets small, it turns into politics? I prefer to keep jackazz out of the game? And if you like to put your politics into a game, then maybe you should go find a game with jackazzes playing politics with guns. Or is that this one?

If you did not see their names, you would just be killing an enemy and if you get killed you were killed by the enemy?
If you do not want that toxic effect, then don't create it in the game or put it in there to start with? They are all the enemy, who cares what their names are? I only play quick play and do not friend in this game as now I may have to shoot them, if they are on the other team and since I really don't know them from another robot who pushed the friend button. in other words, I am only going to push that button if you truly are somebody I know, and not a random robot name I may have played with along the way?

[Saved By The Bell]

Hmmm, an interesting idea: to hide enemies names until the end of fight.

Edited by Saved By The Bell, 22 March 2025 - 10:00 PM.

[MrMadguy]

Player names? Too easy. How about predicting results of match via map/mode vote screen? When something like Alpine Peaks wins, while Canyon Network is also available, you usually already know, that things are going to go wrong.

[martian]

Equuleus, on 22 March 2025 - 11:16 AM, said:

Frankly, why should you see the enemy's names in a battle sim? It is not a battle sim like that at all and is more like a murder plot?

And then, when your community gets small, it turns into politics? I prefer to keep jackazz out of the game? And if you like to put your politics into a game, then maybe you should go find a game with jackazzes playing politics with guns. Or is that this one?

If you did not see their names, you would just be killing an enemy and if you get killed you were killed by the enemy?
If you do not want that toxic effect, then don't create it in the game or put it in there to start with? They are all the enemy, who cares what their names are? I only play quick play and do not friend in this game as now I may have to shoot them, if they are on the other team and since I really don't know them from another robot who pushed the friend button. in other words, I am only going to push that button if you truly are somebody I know, and not a random robot name I may have played with along the way?

The answer is quite simple: eSport.

Originally, Russ Bullock wanted MWO to become eSport. He had great plans about tournaments, factions and such things, etc.
Of course, all his plans flopped because of his and PGI's failure to understand that the majority of his customers, i.e. MWO players, has never been actually interested in such eSports.

Anyway, this is why you see other players names. I mean, take any sports competition: Ice Hockey World Championship, Olympic Games, Champions League, Cup Winners' Cup, etc.

You - as a player - are not facing some anonymous Spanish, American, Canadian or Brazilian team with some anonymous striker, defender or goalkeeper. No, you know that you are facing Benfica Lisbon, Arsenal London or Inter Milan and that enemy players are Ronaldo, Berger or Zubizarreta. You can even see their names on their T-shirts.

Thus, it makes sense that you see the enemy's names in MechWarrior Online.

[Equuleus]

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Got a Basketball Jones, oh baby, oo-oo-ooo

Yes, I am the victim of a Basketball Jones
Ever since I was a little baby, I always be dribblin'
In fac', I was de baddest dribbler in the whole neighborhood
Then one day, my mama bought me a basketball
And I loved that basketball
I took that basketball with me everywhere I went
That basketball was like a basketball to me

I even put that basketball underneath my pillow
Maybe that's why I can't sleep at night
I need help, ladies and gentlemens
I need someone to stand beside me
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Someone I can pass to
Someone to hit the open man on the give-and-go
And not end up in the popcorn machine
So cheerleaders, help me out

{cheerleaders sing repeatedly...}
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(I got a Basketball Jones, oh baby, oo-oo-ooo)

{while Tyrone Shoelaces sings/speaks...}
Oh, that sounds so sweet
Sing it out
C'mon Coach Booty, Red Blazer, sing along with me
That be bad, *****
Yeah
I want everybody in the whole stadium to stand up and sing with us
Oh yeah, sing it out like you're proud
All right, everybody watchin' coast-to-coast, sing along with us
Bill Russell, sing along with us
Chick Hearn, sing along with us
Chris Schenkel, don't sing nothin'

Oh, it feels so good
Gimme the ball
I'll go one-on-one against the world, left-handed
I could stuff it from center court with my toes
I could jump on top of the backboard, take off a quarter, leave fifteen cents change I
could, I could dribble behind my back I got more moves than Ex-Lax I'm bad I could
dribble with my tongue Here I go down court, try to stop me You can't stop me 'cause I
got a Basketball Jones Here I come That's my hook shot with my eyebrow Yeah, I could
dunk it with my nose I'm, I'm bad as King Kong, gimme the ball I'm hot, I'm hot as...,
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(Baske

Edited by Equuleus, 23 March 2025 - 05:21 AM.

[LordNothing]

i do recognize names, both those who are exceptional and those who are less so. i recognize unit tags as well. though some older unit tags (mostly from fp) dont seem to hold the weight they once did. a tag which once meant instandt death is more like a mild annoyance. but i find if i use this information to predict the match the results aren't much better than 50/50. still better odds than vegas.