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Don't misunderstand folks. I love the game. It has taken the spot as my defining hobby and personal recreational activity. My hat is certainly off to PGI and everything they've accomplished thusfar. It's been loads of fun and I'm ready and willing to allot more of my hard earned money to support the company and ensure that I continue to have this outlet to amuse myself with.
However I begin to feel some time ago that my input didn't really matter. Not that that seemed implausible, with the sudden dramatic increase in player base and the forum-herd mentality that had lots of people bitching about what everyone else was bitching about, or just berating the Dev's because X game was better and they wanted the money they didn't pay back, etc. etc. (if you sifted through those you found the actual constructive criticism from those trying to test the game and help make it better.)
But! In the spirit of stalwart optimism, decided to cap out the year by once again being a constructive participant. Instead of wallowing in self-pity laced moaning (Ermahgerd! Turned into a BetEmo Tester!)
Here I've listed the things I feel strongly enough about to discuss changing and my opinions on what might be done to improve them. If you guys see a topic you agree or disagree with, please respond in a similar fashion. With each list item you wish to discuss clearly demarcated. (Trying to make it so the things we all feel most strongly about are clearly reflected in this, single thread, instead of making the dev's read through post after post... you get the idea)
- Testing / Training Area
My first and foremost suggestion. Having a free zone where new players can learn the controls and experienced players can test chassis configs without fear of messing up their score or ******* off their teammates, etc. Not to mention a place to test graphics and sound settings, or try out alternate control layouts. (Bless us all if we had somewhere quiet and safe to try out the damn hacked config files to get our expensive joysticks working properly).
Extra points if this bit can be accessed without being connected to the internet.
- Customizable Trial Mechs
Trial mechs are and should be "fixed", not subject to all the things you are priviledged to do when you own your own machine. However letting new users at least swap the weapons around abit would aid their learning curve immensely. - MC Pricing
Guys, I am by far your favorite type of customer. The impulse spender. And as I mentioned, I'm happy to pay to support you guys so you can keep doing this so my friends and I can get our kicks. But $15 for the Christmas lights was kinda like "WaitWut?!". The lights themselves were awesome, but I choked on the MC cost.
Give us a lower price point to shoot for (for everything) and more of us would impulsively do so. Y'know? Personally I'd love to see the current real-world cash prices moved to one level higher MC. (3000MC for $7, 6500MC for $15, etc.) then I'd basically consider it fixed. - Mechbay
Organize the mechbays... I would love to be able to just shuffle my mechs around. This one doesn't seem unreasonable since its essentially just moving buttons.
I'd also like to see my paintschemes accurately represented on the mech icons in my mechbay, but I realize that'd be taking it to a whole new level of PITA, so disregard that I said that.
- Weapons
The only thing I feel strongly enough to mention on this front is Streaks are OP, need to scatter a bit more. But I think you guys are already working on that, so nevermind!
Excellent job with the PPC, by the way! Love it. (Also love how every step of weapon balancing brings it closer and closer to MW4,
, which is better and better) - Cockpit / HUD
Said it many times before. I doubt I'll ever get it, but I'll never stop fighting for it. When you believe in something strongly enough.. you must be true to yourself. With my dying breath I shall be requesting...
..the ability to customize the color of the HUD. I mean dang, spent all this time and money on green controls which matched every single MechWarrior game prior to this one and what do we get? Orange? Gold? Whatever! I wanna change it. Not a deal breaker or anything, I just want to change it. - ECM
I won't harp on this. But I do have onnne idea for "balancing" ECM.
Let us mount it on whatever chassis we want. Just make it cost something serious. (C'mon, if we can put it on an Atlas, jeez). I'd make it prohibitively expensive, have it take up a critical slot or two (or however many), and make it use two module slots. (Or have it where if you take ECM you can't use any of your module slots). I don't know, I'd just rather be able to mount it on whichever mech, but in exchange for some serious tradeoff. Perhaps taking ECM causes you to suffer a -%12 C-bill earning or something, lol.
Lets go back to five second sound bytes.
