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[Lee Ving]

SI The Joker, on 01 February 2013 - 12:53 PM, said:

To be fair everyone said the same thing about the lag shield fixes... and while still not perfect, it's a ton better than before and much, much sooner than pretty much anyone thought.

No question, I'm not trying to be hateful towards PGI - and I still enjoy MWO enough to put in 3+ hours a week (sometimes a night). It just seems like poor planning not to implement some community friendly features earlier than later to help prevent beta-fatigue.

[Navid A1]

does that even need a poll?
of course its a must have.

[Havyek]

Bryan Ekman, on 22 January 2013 - 01:09 PM, said:

Q: Is a lobby system being looked at so that players can join selected matches, organize matches based on previously established teams (i.e support for ladder/league format fights), drop matches that are other than 8v8 or 12v12 (like 1v1 if decided, 6v6, 5v5 etc), see which map they are going to drop on so they can plan appropriately etc?
A: Lobby is on the board, but not a high priority yet.

/thread

[Solis Obscuri]

Mister Blastman, on 01 February 2013 - 04:59 AM, said:

Lobby is what Mechwarrior always was about!

Not really.But I think it would be helpful to get people grouped up a bit more orderly before the drops.

[I R O N Patriot]

I just want BIDDING a match back... I miss the days of bidding...

[Apoc1138]

a lobby is already on the board, but after or as part of Community Warfare
I would much rather they work on CW than a lobby personally

[Joseph Mallan]

This is a good idea, You should keep lobbying for it

[Johnny Morgan]

Apoc1138, on 11 February 2013 - 04:13 AM, said:

a lobby is already on the board, but after or as part of Community Warfare
I would much rather they work on CW than a lobby personally

Ditto but I thought we were getting some limited 'match selection' with the coming Dropship game mode and/or MMv3

CW is going to be the life blood of this game, really hope they have some serious BETA time scheduled for it

[Havyek]

Personally, I would prefer that a lobby take priority over Community Warfare simply because it would allow a means of user created ladders/leagues to be set up and run ala MWL or NBT.

This would also help to keep interest up and hopefully encourage new players to join up with (or at least start looking for) organized groups.

[Taizan]

When I joined for Open Beta I was completely stumped. Hitting the "Social" button did not open up a lobby. It showed me some empty lists. About a month later I accidentally found out there is some basic chat.

I am happy that focus is on the game performance and bringing out new mechs, maps and content, but the social system really needs an overhaul. Messaging, decent chat (even when someone is in a match!) and a pre/post match lobby are expected features.

[DeeSaster]

It got a bit overlooked in this thread, but I really would like to get the "number of players online" counter (back), so I can start collecting proper data that will help me decide if I should migrate to the EU servers once they are up.

Edited by DeeSaster, 11 February 2013 - 05:59 AM.

[grayson marik]

Well, something like that was already suggested multiple times, one time here:

http://mwomercs.com/...ost__p__1757837

The big point about a lobby system is that it would not only make this stuff more interesting, it would also temporary solve all the balancing issues people have with ecm and stuff and would provide wonderful telemtric data for PGI based on the droplayouts people would use.

So this would be a win win for us players as well as PGI rather sooner than later and would help keeping motivation up untill CW and stuff.

btw. I also currently write some small planetary... have a look:

http://mwomercs.com/...some-planetary/

Edited by grayson marik, 11 February 2013 - 06:33 AM.