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[Turbo Corvair]

This game is about teamwork.... role warfare ya know? You don't have to join a faction or a unit to drop with a team!

Go join a voice comm server. Go to No Guts No Galaxy or some other MWO voice server. I say again, you don't have to join a unit to play in a four man team!

If you choose not to use voice comms that is on you, not PGI.

Go ahead, call me a fanboy and ignore my advice. If you insist on throwing yourself under the bus you don't have anyone to blame but yourself.

[Lee Ving]

Is NGNG really that much more popular than Comstar? I'm going to have to start hanging out over there in that case...

[Daekar]

Can I call you a fanboy but still use voice comms?

While I understand where you're coming from (I just spent several lovely hours pugging with the guys on the EU TS3), if your solution is the only one, the game will die a horrible death, and it won't take that long.

Solo pugging MUST be viable for the game to succeed. Encouraging people to join on TS3 is fine, but please remember that if the game is successful, MOST players will never use a microphone.

All this hubbub will be mostly taken care of when Phase 3 matchmaking comes in.

Edited by Daekar, 27 December 2012 - 12:16 PM.

[Taryys]

[Guide] Playing with Friends, Groups, and Teams

[DogmeatX]

Who are you talking to? The guys who don't read the forum and don't know about the public 3rd party servers? Oh wait that will be most gamers...

I'm sure they appreciate your sentiment though. Instead of palming off with weak sauce "argument" like that why not pool together to think of real improvements to the game which would make it a better experience for everyone (I've posted elsewhere ideas, can't be bothered to repost. Anyone with half a brain can work them out)

[Cerlin]

NGNG seems to have more merc unit players (not a bad thing) and comstar has sheer volume. I Alternate between both myself. Highly Recommended.

[Dane Dread]

The desire to login and play 2 - 3 matches without going to the overhead of finding a group is a valid play style. It's what I do. It's OK not to be hyper serious about your gameplay. This game caters very well to us "I've got 20 minutes to blow" players.

Come the day I want to sit down and play MWO for hours straight, your advice is good. We'll see if I ever hit that day.

Although I'm not complaining about losing to an organized team. It seems a lot of coordination can be accomplished by paying attention to what your teammates do and a little use of text chat. Personally I suspect the next iteration of the match making will take steps to match us casual players together and put the more serious players together. There is room in MWO for us too. Quit implying we're bad and should leave because we don't play like you.

[Joseph Mallan]

And who's fault is it that they don't know about those servers? PGI? IGP? The OP?

[AlexWildeagle]

YAY!!! another BS thread on this. It mus be another day of the week that ends in Y.

[skelley92]

Dane Dread, on 27 December 2012 - 12:20 PM, said:

The desire to login and play 2 - 3 matches without going to the overhead of finding a group is a valid play style. It's what I do. It's OK not to be hyper serious about your gameplay. This game caters very well to us "I've got 20 minutes to blow" players.

Come the day I want to sit down and play MWO for hours straight, your advice is good. We'll see if I ever hit that day.

Although I'm not complaining about losing to an organized team. It seems a lot of coordination can be accomplished by paying attention to what your teammates do and a little use of text chat. Personally I suspect the next iteration of the match making will take steps to match us casual players together and put the more serious players together. There is room in MWO for us too. Quit implying we're bad and should leave because we don't play like you.

I agree. When I know I'm going to play for a couple of hours or more, I join a group. I feel it's only far it join a group if I can commit to it for awhile. However, when I only have time to for a match or 2, I PUG. I think that is very common. A good, fair PUG system is very important for the long term enjoyment of this game.

Edited by skelley92, 27 December 2012 - 02:25 PM.

[ElmoWithAGun]

Daekar, on 27 December 2012 - 12:15 PM, said:

Solo pugging MUST be viable for the game to succeed.

Couldn't agree more. I usually play with a friend or two, but the lack of cooperation and common sense of the other players is enough to still have the other team walk over us. Running 4 mans is useless if that's the case.

[Sean von Steinike]

Oh look, the OP sounds like another person trying to feel good about his pugstomping and inflated stats.

[DaZur]

Just for clarity and to harp on a slight technicality...

When we "solo" players are group by the game and dropped "together" we technically for all intent and purpose are a "team". Granted... not typically a very coordinated or tactically sound group, but a "group" non-the-less...

"Team / group" is not the issue... it's the average disorganized chaos, absence of tactics and lack of goal focus and leadership!

Edited by DaZur, 27 December 2012 - 02:49 PM.

[Sinnersaix]

Taryys, on 27 December 2012 - 12:15 PM, said:

[Guide] Playing with Friends, Groups, and Teams

That sad about this is that some ppl realy NEED a Guide for Teamwork and Friendship Oo

[Kaspirikay]

Dont tell me how to play this game

[The Exiled]

Turbo Corvair, on 27 December 2012 - 12:11 PM, said:

This game is about teamwork.... role warfare ya know? You don't have to join a faction or a unit to drop with a team!

Go join a voice comm server. Go to No Guts No Galaxy or some other MWO voice server. I say again, you don't have to join a unit to play in a four man team!

If you choose not to use voice comms that is on you, not PGI.

Go ahead, call me a fanboy and ignore my advice. If you insist on throwing yourself under the bus you don't have anyone to blame but yourself.

oh pls if all the pugs did that you would cry like a baby, you don't want competition or you would be telling all those 4 man groups to double up and pay 8 man for a challenge, this thread was nothing more than some scrub pug basher wanting to sound like 'da man' in his own mind

[Kraven Kor]

Nadia Winson, on 27 December 2012 - 12:13 PM, said:

Is NGNG really that much more popular than Comstar? I'm going to have to start hanging out over there in that case...

It certainly seems like it.

[Kaspirikay]

The Exiled, on 27 December 2012 - 02:51 PM, said:

oh pls if all the pugs did that you would cry like a baby, you don't want competition or you would be telling all those 4 man groups to double up and pay 8 man for a challenge, this thread was nothing more than some scrub pug basher wanting to sound like 'da man' in his own mind

This

[JSparrowist]

The Exiled, on 27 December 2012 - 02:51 PM, said:

oh pls if all the pugs did that you would cry like a baby, you don't want competition or you would be telling all those 4 man groups to double up and pay 8 man for a challenge, this thread was nothing more than some scrub pug basher wanting to sound like 'da man' in his own mind

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[Kaspirikay]

Also why do ylu care about pugs if youre in an 8 man all the time