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[Lyoto Machida]

Adrian Steel, on 20 February 2013 - 09:35 PM, said:

Unless Bryan Eckman was trolling when he dropped into a thread at one point..... the Elo ratings are by mech class.....so each player would have at least 4 ratings.

Ouch.

In any case, I'll be in my Atlas as well. Gotta make sure Assault is taken care of first.

[Vrekgar]

Well currently Elo only cares about Wins and Losses. So if your trying to farm Cbills or EXP then prepare your ****, you need to Tank your ELO so you get some wins where you can be awesome.

Facing team after team of 4+ Assaults with 3L escorts while your team seems like its the short bus without a single assault on the field is really really fair.

Its still Super fair that unless your group brings a prepared ECM lance that your probably not going to have anything that counters the enemy teams ECM yard sale.

Matches are closer affairs for the most part. Stomps are still prevalent. Pugs are still unable to focus on the broad side of a dropship.

[jakucha]

Relics, on 20 February 2013 - 07:13 PM, said:

Even if it is working, I will be piloting an Atlas every match, because I actually care about ELO and playing in good matches. And the match making system doesnt care what mech you take. I want to win, so guess what. I and the rest of my unit of very highly skilled players will do the same. And when we reach the ELO level we want to be at, then we will test mechs etc. Its not worth Testing mechs etc and going to ELO hell.

It takes into account individual experience you have in a mech, so if you suck *** in a big mech you're going to be beaten by a smaller one 1 on 1. If it doesn't do that yet, they said it would eventually anyway.

[Chemie]

We dropped and had a nice mixed team of a few of each weight class. The other team had 5 lights. It was ugly for them.

I think there should be some total weight or class balancing as before to avoid those silly sort of match ups (which is why PGI started the class balance thing to begin with).

[Shredhead]

Please don't forget the devs have clearly stated, that the ELO ranking is still ongoing and needs some weeks to settle properly. You will still see lots of noobs who pandered their ELO the last weeks simply by driving hard hitters or dropping in VOIP teams. Their scores will go down accordingly, and then we will see way more equal fights.