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[Mechwarrior Online] The FWL doesn't pay enough to stay here (THREAD OVER!)

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  • GaslightGaslight Registered User regular
    Gaslight wrote: »
    Buttcleft wrote: »
    Starting March 3rd they will be able to have different tonnages in IS vs. Clan matches. IS will get more tonnage.. small to start 160 to 250 for IS

    Wooooo!

    I don't understand why they let IS have more tonnage, why not just limit clans to 10 (two stars) vs an IS Company (3 lances)

    I think they've intimated in the past that for whatever reason their matchmaker would more or less shit all over itself if it had to make games between numerically asymmetrical teams. My impression is that the matchmaking system in general is held together with patchwork repairs and prayer, the finer points of its functioning understood only dimly if at all... basically it's a WH40k Golden Throne situation.

    So I just want to bump my own post on the matchmaker in light of the fact I am currently getting "Failed to find a match" every time I try to get in a game.

  • Gnome-InterruptusGnome-Interruptus Registered User regular
    Ugh i hate the community in these town halls and how pgi seems to think that they have good ideas. Limiting CW drop decks to 1 of each class is a garbage idea Russ. The turrets that you added to assault maps ruined an entire game mode and smaller maps which you still haven't figured out.

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  • nonoffensivenonoffensive Registered User regular
    Ugh i hate the community in these town halls and how pgi seems to think that they have good ideas. Limiting CW drop decks to 1 of each class is a garbage idea Russ. The turrets that you added to assault maps ruined an entire game mode and smaller maps which you still haven't figured out.

    I love mechanics that obsolete lighter mechs in a given weight class. Why drop an Awesome when you can bring 20 extra tons FOR FREE! Why drop a Mad Dog when you can bring the BEST MECH EVER!

    The current drop deck system is the best thing outside of a BV system. Replacing it would be a terrible idea.

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  • GaslightGaslight Registered User regular
    My conviction that I made in the right choice in deciding to ignore that CW exists is reinforced.

  • HydroSqueegeeHydroSqueegee ULTRACAT!!!™®© Registered User regular
    Gaslight wrote: »
    Gaslight wrote: »
    Buttcleft wrote: »
    Starting March 3rd they will be able to have different tonnages in IS vs. Clan matches. IS will get more tonnage.. small to start 160 to 250 for IS

    Wooooo!

    I don't understand why they let IS have more tonnage, why not just limit clans to 10 (two stars) vs an IS Company (3 lances)

    I think they've intimated in the past that for whatever reason their matchmaker would more or less shit all over itself if it had to make games between numerically asymmetrical teams. My impression is that the matchmaking system in general is held together with patchwork repairs and prayer, the finer points of its functioning understood only dimly if at all... basically it's a WH40k Golden Throne situation.

    So I just want to bump my own post on the matchmaker in light of the fact I am currently getting "Failed to find a match" every time I try to get in a game.

    If it locks your mech, rejoin. Get free deathstar achievement.

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  • GaslightGaslight Registered User regular
    Gaslight wrote: »
    Gaslight wrote: »
    Buttcleft wrote: »
    Starting March 3rd they will be able to have different tonnages in IS vs. Clan matches. IS will get more tonnage.. small to start 160 to 250 for IS

    Wooooo!

    I don't understand why they let IS have more tonnage, why not just limit clans to 10 (two stars) vs an IS Company (3 lances)

    I think they've intimated in the past that for whatever reason their matchmaker would more or less shit all over itself if it had to make games between numerically asymmetrical teams. My impression is that the matchmaking system in general is held together with patchwork repairs and prayer, the finer points of its functioning understood only dimly if at all... basically it's a WH40k Golden Throne situation.

    So I just want to bump my own post on the matchmaker in light of the fact I am currently getting "Failed to find a match" every time I try to get in a game.

    If it locks your mech, rejoin.

    It never gets that far.

    I've never understood why people game out the easiest and most artificial ways of getting achievements. Doesn't it take the satisfaction out of "achieving" something?

  • ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    Gaslight wrote: »
    LD50 wrote: »
    So I guess I bought a resistance pack? I don't remember doing so, but whatever.

    I'm trying to figure out how to build the enforcer variants, and this is what I've come up with:

    ENF-5D

    ENF-4R

    ENF-5P

    Lemme know what you think.

    Just say no to IS small pulse lasers. (Unless maybe you're a Firestarter).

    Your 4R looks pretty much the same as a build people have been reporting success with.

    You, um, don't have any autocannon ammo on your 5P.

    Don't listen to this man, SPLs are great weapons on the 4R, and you wont cook yourself like a Christmas ham shooting them.

    Why get rid of the ultras on the 5P? Do you not serve the gods of Dakka?

  • LD50LD50 Registered User regular
    edited February 2015
    I love ultras, but I don't think the enforcer carries enough of them/a good backup load out for jamming reasons. I could be wrong though.

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  • GaslightGaslight Registered User regular
    edited February 2015
    Buttcleft wrote: »
    Why get rid of the ultras on the 5P? Do you not serve the gods of Dakka?
    Buttcleft wrote: »
    Okay I'm starting to get fed up with UACs and might drop my enforcer down to vanilla AC5s, they might not shoot as often but at least the motherfuckers wont fucking goddamn jam when I'm one shot away from coring ou an enemy and leave me a goddamn standing fucking target to be picked at until I die



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  • HandgimpHandgimp R+L=J Family PhotoRegistered User regular
    Gaslight wrote: »
    Gaslight wrote: »
    Gaslight wrote: »
    Buttcleft wrote: »
    Starting March 3rd they will be able to have different tonnages in IS vs. Clan matches. IS will get more tonnage.. small to start 160 to 250 for IS

    Wooooo!

    I don't understand why they let IS have more tonnage, why not just limit clans to 10 (two stars) vs an IS Company (3 lances)

    I think they've intimated in the past that for whatever reason their matchmaker would more or less shit all over itself if it had to make games between numerically asymmetrical teams. My impression is that the matchmaking system in general is held together with patchwork repairs and prayer, the finer points of its functioning understood only dimly if at all... basically it's a WH40k Golden Throne situation.

    So I just want to bump my own post on the matchmaker in light of the fact I am currently getting "Failed to find a match" every time I try to get in a game.

    If it locks your mech, rejoin.

    It never gets that far.

    I've never understood why people game out the easiest and most artificial ways of getting achievements. Doesn't it take the satisfaction out of "achieving" something?

    Don't worry, PGI is on the case!

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  • LD50LD50 Registered User regular
    Anyone else having problems connecting?

  • ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    LD50 wrote: »
    Anyone else having problems connecting?

    down for maintenance

  • Eat it You Nasty Pig.Eat it You Nasty Pig. tell homeland security 'we are the bomb'Registered User regular
    yay twist fix

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    hold your head high soldier, it ain't over yet
    that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
  • SyngyneSyngyne Registered User regular
    yay twist fix

    Chubby Checker approves.

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  • KonphujunKonphujun Illinois, USARegistered User regular
    Servers are back up!

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    Elvenshae
  • ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    I present to you, a case study in why I hate contests that require a mission win on top of everything else.

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    I literally took out an entire enemy lance by myself (an assault, two heavies and a medium) and the rest of the team couldn't do shit.

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  • KonphujunKonphujun Illinois, USARegistered User regular
    :bro:

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    Elvenshae
  • GaslightGaslight Registered User regular
    You'll be happier if you just forget the challenges even exist and try to play as well as possible. Been in three matches since the servers went back up and I'm already seeing so much rage and whining from people trying to chase the challenge requirements, complaining about people "stealing" "their" kills, etc. Setting up these challenges the way PGI has basically just encourages people to play badly and act like douchebags.

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  • HandgimpHandgimp R+L=J Family PhotoRegistered User regular
    edited February 2015
    Padre get thy cleft buttocks into Vent.

    Handgimp on
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  • BetsuniBetsuni UM-R60L Talisker IVRegistered User regular
    I miss the earliest challenges where they only required you to get 5 wins or something simple like that. It allowed people to just play.

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  • ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    I'm getting in vent, I had to spend 10 minutes chasing down a stupid raven on tourmaline who wouldn't give up.

    Elvenshae
  • KonphujunKonphujun Illinois, USARegistered User regular
    @Elvenshae I see you reacting to posts but not in MW or vent. You should rectify that. Not sayin, just sayin.

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  • ElvenshaeElvenshae Registered User regular
    Konphujun wrote: »
    @Elvenshae I see you reacting to posts but not in MW or vent. You should rectify that. Not sayin, just sayin.

    Work. :)

  • NipsNips He/Him Luxuriating in existential crisis.Registered User regular
    Elvenshae wrote: »
    Konphujun wrote: »
    @Elvenshae I see you reacting to posts but not in MW or vent. You should rectify that. Not sayin, just sayin.

    Work. :)

    Some of us, like Elvenshae and I, exist multi-dimensionally in many places, states, and forms. Unfortunately, our Overlords have the corporeal, game-playing parts of our existences on lockdown most days.

    It's really an unfortunate kind of existence.

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  • KonphujunKonphujun Illinois, USARegistered User regular
    Bought 12,000 MC about 45 minutes ago. I have no Orion champion. :| Maybe I can e-mail support about it?

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  • ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    Konphujun wrote: »
    Bought 12,000 MC about 45 minutes ago. I have no Orion champion. :| Maybe I can e-mail support about it?

    I think its injected on the hour or maybe daily

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  • KonphujunKonphujun Illinois, USARegistered User regular
    Buttcleft wrote: »
    Konphujun wrote: »
    Bought 12,000 MC about 45 minutes ago. I have no Orion champion. :| Maybe I can e-mail support about it?

    I think its injected on the hour or maybe daily

    As soon as you said that it appeared in my mech bay. :twisted:

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  • NipsNips He/Him Luxuriating in existential crisis.Registered User regular
    edited February 2015
    The landing page for Clan Wave 3 is up:

    https://mwomercs.com/wavethree

    I'm a little worried about the Hankyu, its silhouette is a little chunky.

    Mmmm, ECM-capable Hankyu and Shadow Cat. Fancy.

    [edit] HOOO LEEE SHITE. The EXE-D has ten energy hardpoints. Woof.

    Nips on
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  • ErlkönigErlkönig Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited February 2015
    I'm curious about that page. So if you buy before the end of the month, you get a fourth mech variant...or is that "Early adopter" bonus mech already rolled into the mechs list? If it's a fourth variant, do we get a fourth mechbay that's not listed? I mean, I could assume we do...but assumptions and MWO haven't really gone that well in the past.

    EDIT: Nvm...just had to scroll down past the grid of buy-in options.

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  • Eat it You Nasty Pig.Eat it You Nasty Pig. tell homeland security 'we are the bomb'Registered User regular
    the cheetah actually looks pretty interesting; five energy hardpoints and ecm, tops out at 142 and change with speed tweak

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    hold your head high soldier, it ain't over yet
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  • BolthornBolthorn Registered User regular
    Well, looks like I'll still probably be whaling it up. I just can't help myself. I have over 7,000 hours of banked premium time that for some strange reason I just never seem to use. That's nearly a year damnit. What the hell self? I have a ton of c-bills that I never really spend. Damn, I'm a virtual hoarder aren't I? Well shit. At least I'm still having fun, except when I'm trying to get the first win of the day in the Summoner B.

    Still wish we could mix IS and Clan mechs in CW. That's why I pretty much don't do it. I mean, I get why they don't want to from a lore standpoint, but can anyone argue why not to do it from a fun standpoint now that there are quirks for IS mechs?

    Apologies again to the folks that I did run that with one night and didn't really have a dropdeck put together so I just sort of threw something together quickly. Downside to switching engines all the time from prior to CW.

  • Eat it You Nasty Pig.Eat it You Nasty Pig. tell homeland security 'we are the bomb'Registered User regular
    haha it looks like you can fit an 8xMG shadowcat

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    hold your head high soldier, it ain't over yet
    that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
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  • NipsNips He/Him Luxuriating in existential crisis.Registered User regular
    edited February 2015
    Bolthorn wrote: »
    Well, looks like I'll still probably be whaling it up. I just can't help myself. I have over 7,000 hours of banked premium time that for some strange reason I just never seem to use. That's nearly a year damnit. What the hell self? I have a ton of c-bills that I never really spend. Damn, I'm a virtual hoarder aren't I? Well shit. At least I'm still having fun, except when I'm trying to get the first win of the day in the Summoner B.

    Still wish we could mix IS and Clan mechs in CW. That's why I pretty much don't do it. I mean, I get why they don't want to from a lore standpoint, but can anyone argue why not to do it from a fun standpoint now that there are quirks for IS mechs?

    Apologies again to the folks that I did run that with one night and didn't really have a dropdeck put together so I just sort of threw something together quickly. Downside to switching engines all the time from prior to CW.

    You and me, Bolt. I'm eyeing that Gladiator package, doing the napkin math on amortizing the cost, and figuring out my Clan-account drop deck with it.

    The bonus +4 mechs for buying in before the 28th is so killer. That is literally the sneakiest bait, that this whale is weak to. I have to think long and hard about this one, but right now I'm leaning towards Take My Money.

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  • BolthornBolthorn Registered User regular
    Yeah, I'm sure I'll bite. Although it's probably between this and a really nice bottle of scotch sometime next month. I guess I can just keep drinking beer.

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  • Eat it You Nasty Pig.Eat it You Nasty Pig. tell homeland security 'we are the bomb'Registered User regular
    honestly the heavy/assaults still suffer from an acute case of Not A Timberwolf Disease

    executioner can mount a truly silly number of energy weapons, but you probably won't have the heat to use that many

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    hold your head high soldier, it ain't over yet
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  • BetsuniBetsuni UM-R60L Talisker IVRegistered User regular
    Ok, so I completely suck at the whole Timberwolf thing. What makes these guys so special? I end up either blocking teammates (j/k) or getting smeared by some light.

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  • Eat it You Nasty Pig.Eat it You Nasty Pig. tell homeland security 'we are the bomb'Registered User regular
    you get one faction package thingy per level of package, right? What's included in those, the colors, the camos and the warhorn/cockpit items?

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    hold your head high soldier, it ain't over yet
    that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
  • NipsNips He/Him Luxuriating in existential crisis.Registered User regular
    Betsuni wrote: »
    Ok, so I completely suck at the whole Timberwolf thing. What makes these guys so special? I end up either blocking teammates (j/k) or getting smeared by some light.

    They're a near - optimal blend of firepower, speed, and durability. That's why.

    you get one faction package thingy per level of package, right? What's included in those, the colors, the camos and the warhorn/cockpit items?

    Yes. And yes, yes, yes.

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  • OpposingFarceOpposingFarce Registered User regular
    Why would they not show all the concept art? Hopefully it is all revealed before the 28th.

    Was considering a pack until they finally gave IS more tonnage on CW. And I don't feel like having two accounts.

    Heroth
  • ErlkönigErlkönig Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    Nips wrote: »
    Betsuni wrote: »
    Ok, so I completely suck at the whole Timberwolf thing. What makes these guys so special? I end up either blocking teammates (j/k) or getting smeared by some light.

    They're a near - optimal blend of firepower, speed, and durability. That's why.

    you get one faction package thingy per level of package, right? What's included in those, the colors, the camos and the warhorn/cockpit items?

    Yes. And yes, yes, yes.

    Generally speaking, I've found I've been getting far better results in either my Mad Dogs or Hellbringers (mostly the Hellbringers, though). For whatever reason, the Timber Wolf just hasn't clicked with me and is right up there with the Adder in terms of performance.

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