Improving Random Battle Selection

we found KOTH battles had less wait times when running a full squad verses going solo or in smaller groups. My crew has been running in the evenings and your more then welcome to join us As i recall the last time I picked you up we had a pretty good run. KOTH matches for us have been excellent and im enjoying a 75% win rate at present.

I would prefer if they rolled KOTH, Domination and Beacon Rush into one. I don't like the idea of mixing Domination and TDM.

Or better, have 5 different game modes: KOTH, Domination, Beacon Rush, TDM and Random.

Players that choose random get a ~50% bonus to their silver reward. There would be enough random players than to help fill any given queue at any given time.

4 modes, choose the one you want. Simple.

The ONLY reason we can't choose is that they want to sell hangars. The more people who fall into Pix's plan and buy the hangars are more people who'll buy more bots / weapons / silver / upgrades. With a supposed 1 million players, I really don't think wait times are an issue.

You can't put Dom with TDM. Dom, as is, is fine (maps are debatable), but TDM is garbage.

I think mixing domination and beacon rush together then TDM and KOTH is the way it should have been done. That way if people want to play the old modes they can. If not they can play the new modes. Otherwise separate all 4 modes. Or just get rid of KOTH and TDM completely.
I don't play KOTH or on IOS, so I have no idea what wait times are like there. If wait times are more than 5 minutes, I'd imagine it's safe to say KOTH is unpopular.

Just get rid of random modes, or add it to the individual mode options. Give me my $&@?!%# choice if I want it.

No argument here. Too bad we’re not in charge. ?

This really has nothing to do with number of players, it is matter of organization. Saying we don't have enough players is unnecessarily shielding Pixonic, let's not do that.

If you add a 5th random mode, and give bonus rewards for people who play it, you can use those players to fill wherever necessary. That would function properly if the rewards from the random mode were sufficiently high (ie 30-50% of the player base queues random, and are used to fill whatever is being queued up by people who select a mode at the time).

The reason Pixonic doesn't do that is because they want to sell additional hangers. They've said as much in response to players who have questioned it, talked about how players need to "adapt" to the circumstances of the battle.

It really feels like we have come full circle on this one and don't take my word for it as there are numerous posts out there on MM dating years back.

War Robots was built on the back of Domination mode. Love it, hate it, that's a fact and there is no changing it. Their entire franchise is based on this mode, placing pilots onto classic maps in tried true mech builds.

Okay so that's the nostalgic view which as we all know never lasts.

Players wanted new modes and new machines okay BUT they wanted them NOW. Pressure mounted on Pix to produce and like any new TV show it started off fairly well. BR and Knight Bots (Not in those order BTW. Who were also much maligned when they appeared.) Lets not forget the once dreaded and feared Gepard. But things were more or less balanced. This was back when Pix was Pix not Mail.r.u.

The result was that sales climbed as participation climbed and the app rose to new heights and settled in around top 20. THIS is what eventually attracted Mail.r.u. as they troll for these types of apps which fuel their primary business, Internet email services. It's a multi billion dollar industry so War Robots is quite inconsequential its just one log among many such apps on the Mail.r.u. fire. Fills one of their many revenue streams.

Since then they applied Mail.r.u's model of, bigger, better, newer, faster, get those that will pay to pay, reduce frills that avoid spending etc.., you get it as you are living it. But when it is all over War Robots will be sold yet again for whatever they can get for it.

And here we are. The correct thing, IMHO and it is only that, is to put all 4 choices out there for 3 to 4 weeks and track attendance with the understanding that only 2 would remain those with the highest attendance and lowest match wait times. My guess is that Dom and BR would remain. Drop the others because you are all correct, there are simply not enough pilots to make games on 4 modes. HOWEVER: You can drive ALL the sheep through multiple modes and offer them purchases like multiple hangars to help get them through it.;-) For a mere 7,500 AU each. Want to buy more AU...well right this way my friends...right this way.

You are correct runamok there were no issues with the old system of match making but to quote a popular song phrase 'Welcome to the new age' and it is indeed radio active.

Happy Hunting as always.