The only reason they took it away was Defenders were swatting MCC out of the air WAY too quickly. It was a fun game type, and as long as they cut back on the amount of AA defenses in the first zone, I think it would still be a lot of fun!

Hey guys... new idea. Don't just bring the old mode back, renovate it...

First stage is the current Skirmish.

When one team's MCC is destroyed, the other team become the "attackers" and can push forwards if their MCC is still strong enough (more than 50% armour). If this happens, a new portion of the map opens out (redline shift) and the MCC starts moving towards an enemy base in the now-accessible area, which also has several more NULL Cannons, all of which are already controlled by the defenders. The attackers have to move up to capture the new NULL Cannons before their MCC moves into range. The defenders just have to make sure the MCC doesn't reach the base.

If the surviving MCC has less than 50% armour when the enemy MCC is destroyed, then the battle is a pyrrhic victory to the team whose MCC survived. They still technically won, but it's not so much a "victory" as it is "losing less badly than the other guys".

If the surviving MCC gets destroyed in the latter part of the mission, then it's a stalemate. Both sides lost an expensive and important asset, and need time to recover from their loss.

If the surviving MCC reaches the enemy base, VICTORY! To the winner go the spoils.

In this battle type, a negative modifier would be applied to any ISK earnings, and a positive modifier would be applied for successfully capturing the enemy base. This means a solid victory gives better rewards, and being beaten would become less of a profitable option for the redline-camping snipers who ignore their team's attempt to actually PTFO.

If that mode is brought back I think the map would have to be bigger. At least one of the objectives you hack/destroy need to be indoors, or at a high elevation. Before both objectives were destroyed pretty quickly most of the time.

Another balance that might work is the fact that you can jump out of the mcc now. They just need to make it so when the mcc reaches the goal It actually takes extra time to dock when it is over the area. That way even if you couldn't hack the terminals before to spawn in you have the option of jumping on the objectives for a last chance hack before your mcc blows up.

That's what happened near the end of the build, after they were mucking with some of the mechanics and turret placements. Heavies would roll up and wipe out the first 2 objectives, thus shortening the match so the Defenders couldn't possibly win in time.

I guess they were having so many balance issues, they just scrapped it.

Have you seen this? Skip to 16:00 to get them to play the damn game.

I think this would be a great game mode, especially considering they've already created the game mode, now they just need to copy and paste it to our newer and shiny-er beta.