Mechwarrior0311, on 02 February 2014 - 12:02 AM, said:
Why did you cave in to these hardcore Battletech guys who are strangling your game to death with their stickler rules and so on? Why can't you just let it run free and be what it is?
Also, why are your prices so insanely high for Mechs?? $240.00 is a lot of money... $500.00 for a single mech?
You do realize that the economy is {Scrap}, gas and food prices are high, unemployment is at an all time high, and Obamacare is wrecking the healthcare industry?
So, you want to start a political slapfight as well as bieng pretty much ignorant about what "Hardcore Battletechers" want?
Firstly "Obamacare" is not wrecking the health care industry, indeed Rep. Paul Ryan has it in his Budjets because even he knows that it's just more affordable and he needs the savings to make his sums balance. That means it costs less, which is why the Heritage Foundation proposed it as a libertarian alternative to a National Health Service in the 1980's, and that noted commie Bob Dole advanced the same plan as an alternative to Hillarycare in the 1990s. And Mitt Romney implemented it in Massachusetts. Go read what's actually in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and not get your silly talking points from FOX. The reason nowhere in the world uses a system like the US had is that Its so goddam expensive. And before you bring up the 20,000 people that come to the US for health care every year, 10 times that leave the US every year for affordable Health care to Mexico alone. US Healthcare is great if you have enough money to avoid dealing with the "death Panels" in the insurance companies. Maybe you aught to check out the website to see what affordable plans you might be entitled to, now that there are actually a few rules to help prevent the Insurance companies from robbing you blind for sod all coverage?
Food and Gas prices were the same under George W Bush, They crashed down at the end of his term because the economy crashed and there was no-one left who could pay those stupid prices. Oh and us Euros have been paying something like 10 dollars to the gallon for petrol forever. The Shop down my street right now is advertising 1.50 Euro for a LITER of gas. You work out how much that is per gallon in dollars, and then figure out how the hell the rest of the world survives. Might upen your eyes a little.
And finally, far from bieng unheard of, unempyment in raw percentages was worse under Saint Ronald Regan. It peaked under Ronnie at 11%, though it improved later as he spent the last 6 years of his term RAISING TAXES. All he did was one huge tax cut in 1982, and 3 months later he was back to congress asking for a third of it back. George H W Bush was ripped apart for doing openly what Reagan had been doing by stealth for 6 years, namely, raising Taxes. By the way, The Laffer Curve, on which the whole theory of cutting taxes to raise revenue is based, actually showed that revenue would start dropping if taxes were rasied to 90%. Cutting taxes to 27% just drops revenue, and there no serious economist who would argue it. And yes, revenues dropped drasticly the Year after Reagans huge tax cut, after having been consistently rising under Carter. After that, Reagan becan raising taxes and vevenues started climing again.
As for the die hard Battletech guys, I played Battletech for years and I knew damn well that turning the Clans lose like they were in Tabetop was a ludicrous idea. All the old gamers,had been telling PGI that clanners needed a rething for years not becasue we are stuck in the oldtimes but becasue we cared about balance and everyone having a good time. Simply, the Clans pack more guns onto a chassis than the Inner Shere mechs and have ludicrous abilitoes on top of that, such as no minimum range on their LRMs. Do you want to face a mech with effectivly a Streak 40? Even though you would probably have fantasies about blowing everyone else away with the Clan Mechs you played, everyone else would leave the game in droves if they pulled that {Scrap} off. I'm sure you would be ideologicly pure and have awful armour all over your clan mechs as well, just like they were in the tabletop designs (with a few exceptions such as the Mad Cat) one of the few things the TT designers did to even up the odds a bit. But there was nothing to stop someone designing their own clan mechs with proper armout
I'm willing to wait a bit to see what they come up with but so far their ideas are interesting and have at least the potential to have an interesting flavour. They reduction oif the head suckage of double heat sinks was a very good sign that they can tweak things properly for balance. If they hadn't we would be awash in a sea of lasers.
And I'm not paying a cent for clan mechs, the only ones that interest me at all are the Mad Cat and the Diashi, but I was always an IS player at heart.
I'm sure you will dismiss this post as commie propoganda and whatnot, but this post does have the benefit of bieng all true.
Edited by Sir T, 02 February 2014 - 03:51 AM.
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