Instead of having universal rotation, randomise the rotation completely per account to minimize spam

(JonesyIrl) #1

Got 215+ upvotes on reddit I’m talking about classes of course, this wont fix the problem, but it will help change the low level server composition, which right now is 8v8 nader only.

(JonesyIrl) #2

Bump?

(TeeKayM) #3

Great idea. I support 100%

(Dirmagnos) #4

Its obviously better than current system.

(Ghosthree3) #5

(glossyFish) #6

Ghosthree3, do you just go around inflating your post count by telling people who are trying to make constructive threads that’s it already happened before, because you’ve become exceedingly efficient at it.

(Ghosthree3) #7

I’ve done this less than 5 times, possibly less than 3, go review all my posts if you don’t believe me.

(Eox) #8

Bad idea. Some people may create alt accounts just to have a chance to play with the merc they want, and not buy anything. Splash Damage may loose money here.

(sharpSubmarine) #9

Pretty much this. In a perfect world where nobody cheats or lies, OP’s idea would work nicely.
Not in this world though, sadly.

(Viquel) #10

That is a super-weak argument you have there. Whoever has the time and patience to cycle through steam accounts every week to find the preferred merc, has currently also the time to play the account to level 4 and use the credit-shower to get the specific merc.

It’s fairly easy to create a steam account for every single merc - if you can stand switching around all the time, go ahead and play truly for free - if you time and convenience really is worth nothing.

It’s the same through the whole digital world - when you jump through hoops, you get it free. When you make your own money, you realize that your time and convenience isn’t worthless and you can afford spending 10 bucks every other week.

(srswizard) #11

@Viquel imo it’s not a weak argument, at all.
If someone just wants to try out a merc, he could rotate through his accounts, to see if any of them has that exact merc on free rotation, instead of using credits or even real dosh, to unlock the merc.
With the current system, people are more likely to unlock mercs, because people like to have things now, not 2-6 weeks later.

(Kroad) #12

make it ip based, maybe even country based. Just to prevent 8 naders vs 8 sparks kind of stuff

(noupperlobeman) #13

Agree 100%

Promoting class diversity among the playerbase should be top
priority. The current merc rotation system really skews the game
dynamic.

(Szakalot) #14

not gonna happen as it goes against the business model.
the ‘credit shower’ is just 24k, so not even half the price of most mercs

(AnimeDude) #15

[quote=“Eox;38621”]Bad idea. Some people may create alt accounts just to have a chance to play with the merc they want, and not buy anything. Splash Damage may loose money here.[/quote] So we should just accept the huge lack of merc variety and play with 7 other naders?

(Ghosthree3) #16

Not only would this system have to make sure that everyone got the latest merc free - eg. if half the players right now had Sparks and half didn’t it’d be messed up - but it’d also have to make sure that everyone was also randomly rotating through new mercs each week and that no one got repeats.

(noupperlobeman) #17

Not buy anything for a rotation, then spam new accounts until they
get what they want for a new rotation?

I don’t buy it. Think of the number of fake emails a person would have to
go through. Anyone willing to put in that much effort every rotation wasn’t
going to spend money on this game anyway.

(AnimeDude) #18

For how few mercs there are right now, I think 3 is way too many.

(Gi.Am) #19

As someone who suggested something similar I don’t see the problem. Yes as @Ghosthree3 points out atleast one Merc would still need to be global to ensure everyone can test the new Merc as soon as possible, but otherwise it would improve the current situation quite a bit both by reducing Merc stacking and making teams overall more diverse.

As for financial damage I would say it has to be seen what is more damaging people getting turned off from the game altogether, because they face stacked teams 50% of the time (atleast every first week of the 2 weeks rotation) or an increase in smurf accounts that some people make to have all mercs avaible imidiently.
Which btw. has some limitations. First you have to make new accounts every rotation to ensure you really have all mercs avaible because in a random rotation it could very well happen that your accounts will have overlaps that they didn’t 2 weeks ago.
Second got a cool loadoutcard for a merc on one account, but the Merc isn’t free on that acc? Though luck still gotta wait till you can try that sweet loadoutcard or still have to buy that merc.
Which brings us to third. You are effectively splitting your total playtime across several acc. and therefore splitting your total credit income. Sure you would benefit from the nice start lvl. cash boni but that would maybe buy you one merc. However all the credits you make on one account are credits that are not avaible on another and that slow you down in acquiring new Mercs on a main account (And hopefully some other cool stuff in the future).

(Ghosthree3) #20

Multiple accounts would get stale very quickly. I can’t imagine there’d be much fun to be had with no loadouts and all the switching.