Prestige and the promotion farming apocalypse.

Note: Our prestige bonuses are capped, so you can't grind your way to unstoppable godliness. Player skill is intended to remain a key ingredient, even for long-term players.

In a way you are pretty much telling us that these prestige bonuses (post-promotion a la Dragon Age Inquisition?) do exist and are in all likelihood permanent. Having a hard cap that is reasonably within reach even for the casual player is only sensible.

Thanks for clearing that up.

Is there any information pertaining to lag issues when playing off-host you can share with us?

Leaderboards mean nothing in ME3MP.  I'm N7 120 and I'm in the top 0.0000001%

That's good to hear, but still leaves a very important question unanswered. Will players be able to opt out of acquiring these bonuses by not promoting? Or are these prestige levels and bonuses not tied to promoting at all and will be acquired automatically even by playing Lv. 20 characters?

I'd appreciate it, if you could clear that up. It's an issue that has been bothering a lot of us ME3MP veteran players.

I think most of the people here are mature(ish) adults with genuine and legitimate concerns about the game. Maybe too critical and cynical, but if you played DAMP you would be cynical too.

When the devs are silent about critical glaring issues it causes concern. We have a shred of information now that there will be a cap, which is really great. Having a cap solves the major game breaking problems associated with the Prestige system. So we can all relax about that.

But there are still other issues. Well, one major issue for me/anyone not in the US/Canada, and that is the issue of LAG. This issue is really the paramount issue, because if you can't play with other people, then it doesn't really matter if the game is imbalanced or deeply flawed or whatever, because you can't play with other people anyway.

I have always been able to find ME3MP matches, and a good 80-90% of the time the lag is acceptable. I don't expect to be able to vanguard off-host, simply being able to hit things and not rubber-band is enough. Literally after 4 months of DAMP's release, it became problematic to find games. And again being literal, 90% of players on my friends list stopped playing. At this point I resorted to adding people from BSN from other countries to my list, and tried to play with them by joining their matches once they had started (since you would get a black screen if you tried to join from the lobby), but it was so terrible to try and play with the LAG that I gave up after about 2 weeks. I could play ME3MP on these exact same hosts just fine, with absolutely no problem. I could even run the pizza. But the netcode for DAMP was AWFUL. I quit playing when the Dragonslayer patch was released because I was disgusted that it didn't address any of the balance or connection issues (and it still crashed far too frequently to be tolerable). I fired it up a few times over the months after that and occasionally found the same 1 or 2 odd people playing, but there was really no hope for it, especially when I could still just fire up ME3MP and jump into a lobby straight up and just go for it.

The point of all that ranting being, DAMP had major issues. I'll be overjoyed if bioware learnt from DAMP and all the negativity is unwarranted, I'll be more than happy to admit that I was wrong if they do a really great job making a totally awesome game that surpasses ME3MP. But until there is more of this gamer-to-gamer talk where they tell us honestly and candidly how it's going to be, I will continue to assume to worst, with no hope for anything better.

YES! Goddess bless you!

There is this thread over here, but it does have a moderately high level of cynicism.

Given that MEAMP is likely to have a much larger player base than DAMP, the inability to play with people from other countries may not be such a gigantic problem, as there could be a critical mass of players. It would still be nice though. Interacting on the forum is fun, but getting to complain about how bad the game is while playing it together is better

Also if you play non-standard hours, and only have the same 3 douchebags available to play with. Like that guy who is always broadcasting his music into that game, that guy who lives in his mum's basement and talks about C4 every game, and that guy who doesn't ever help with objectives.

would someone care to explain to me the downside of this system? cuz i honestly see nothing wrong with it.
A. yea u getting huge advantage over the rest of players but damn its just typical co-op so a slight advantage is actually good for the whole team, right? or is a killstealing/score whoring still a thing?
B. you gotta work so hard to get that. I mean aint nobody got time for that. I mean in my experience back in the day when Black Ops II came out I've stopped all that prestige thing in a halfway just because it got boring and annoying real quick.

Yea well u got me here, never played DAI but iv seen some MP streams of the game, and it looked like a complete and utter trashy clown fiesta but yea i have no idea what is this prestige system looks like...

yea it doesnt sounds good like not at all...thanks for clearing it up to me, bud

 hopefully that was just a test and they learn from their mistakes

Great news.  Thank you.

Now, for the sake of clarity, mind tipping us on who was responsible for the decision to enable the "grind your way to God-mode" in DAIMP, and what role this genius has in MEAMP, if any?