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[Boris Javorina]

... well that is oldschool!

[IraqiWalker]

Gentlemen, this sure makes me proud to know you.

Edited by IraqiWalker, 02 September 2014 - 02:09 AM.

[Ovion]

Draven Darkshadow, on 01 September 2014 - 03:07 PM, said:

it'd be interesting to use the urban mech as a secondary mech as your primary mech goes down in a fight. something like the new factory map where you see a couple mechs in the back ground. if the head or cockpit isn't destroyed the player can have a second smaller mech choice 20 tons or less to continue playing the match at the friendly base.

maybe introduce tanks/hovercraft or even helicopters in to the game all under 20 tons.

You know the Urbie is a 30 tonner right?

Also, yes. I think you should have a vehicle.

Tanks and Aircraft (VTOLs and Helicopters).
You get one of each class 'free' as a trial, then can buy numerous variants.
Then when dropping you choose a 'mech and a support vehicle, then when dropping you choose which you deploy in first, and if you hit the Eject button in time when killed (1-3 second time frame or something), then you get to deploy from an entrance point at a map edge as 'reinforcements'

Have paint colours work across everything, the support vehicles could have their own camo schemes and 'hero' variants

Think of all the extra sales they'd make selling that stuff!

[wanderer]

The problem is that the map would rapidly be obliterated by sheer Urbie power.

There'd soon be no place for anything else. Or indeed,anything.

Except Urbies.

[Dawnstealer]

Frosty Brand, on 01 September 2014 - 12:49 PM, said:

if nothing then just making engine code work for all size types, I hope someone is working on this. 46 pages now, they must agree that adding the Trash Can-o-Doom^tm is worth the cost of putting a model out. Keep the model as basic as needed if they must.

Well, there's occasionally a new person adding to the convo, but a lot of us are just replying over and over. Still...

wanderer, on 02 September 2014 - 02:11 PM, said:

The problem is that the map would rapidly be obliterated by sheer Urbie power.

There'd soon be no place for anything else. Or indeed,anything.

Except Urbies.

They'd be like Critterball in Critters 2, only with Urbies.

[Kifferson von doober]

even with the horrible joke on the front page, this is still my fave thread!

[General Pete]

here here!

[Sir Crazy]

When will Urban Mechs be added to the game? Based on this thread alone it seems it would be very popular.

[Tank]

I think Urb would be a great indicator if a pilot is true Mechwarrior and not just come to be OP meta, LRM, or other boat thing.

Sir Crazy, on 02 September 2014 - 02:40 PM, said:

When will Urban Mechs be added to the game? Based on this thread alone it seems it would be very popular.

Sir, you don't understand full magnitude of an Urbanmech - it's already legendary.

[Dawnstealer]

It needs 3 AMS and ECM.

[ApolloKaras]

Dawnstealer, on 02 September 2014 - 02:51 PM, said:

It needs 3 AMS and ECM.

nahhhhhhhh no need, it would just cut into my ammo reserves.

[CycKath]

Dawnstealer, on 02 September 2014 - 02:51 PM, said:

It needs 3 AMS and ECM.

But then people would consider it viable and not call it DOA, leading the non-hardcore/non-true fans to consider piloting it, how dare you suggest such insanity!?

[IraqiWalker]

CycKath, on 02 September 2014 - 03:18 PM, said:

But then people would consider it viable and not call it DOA, leading the non-hardcore/non-true fans to consider piloting it, how dare you suggest such insanity!?

I know right?

However, in all honesty. The Urbanmech is one of those that are decidedly going to be inferior to most of their counterparts, however, they are going to be in high demand by us crazies that play the game for fun.

[CycKath]

Will admit while not a fan of ECM, having a lot of AMS would track with more defensive designs such as the UrbanMech.

[stjobe]

Sir Crazy, on 02 September 2014 - 02:40 PM, said:

When will Urban Mechs be added to the game? Based on this thread alone it seems it would be very popular.

There's also a 39-page petition to add the Urbie in the Feature Suggestions forum. That thread was started back in 2011, and even featured in one of PGI's first official gaffes and subsequent public excuses.

So yes, the Urbie is quite popular. Here's a 20-page pro- and con-thread from 2012, here's Bishop Steiner's Urbie Love thread, and here's the first thread I could find about Urbie Day.

Googling "site:mwomercs.com urbanmech" gives 6,170 results, and since there's been 1037 days since November 1st, 2011, this means the Urbie is mentioned on these forums an average of six times a day!

You're damn right it is popular.

[IraqiWalker]

stjobe, on 02 September 2014 - 08:36 PM, said:

There's also a 39-page petition to add the Urbie in the Feature Suggestions forum. That thread was started back in 2011, and even featured in one of PGI's first official gaffes and subsequent public excuses.

So yes, the Urbie is quite popular. Here's a 20-page pro- and con-thread from 2012, here's Bishop Steiner's Urbie Love thread, and here's the first thread I could find about Urbie Day.

Googling "site:mwomercs.com urbanmech" gives 6,170 results, and since there's been 1037 days since November 1st, 2011, this means the Urbie is mentioned on these forums an average of six times a day!

You're damn right it is popular.

Terrifying stats there stjobe. Now if only PGI would give us the Urbie, how happy would everyone be? It wouldn't really cost them much. Yes, there are a few players that would think it's a crap mech, but hey, those same players are thinking the vindi is a crap mech, so who cares!?

[Ovion]

Ay, and if you actually build an urbie, run an urbie, you'll see they're actually pretty effective.

[jper4]

wanderer, on 02 September 2014 - 02:11 PM, said:

The problem is that the map would rapidly be obliterated by sheer Urbie power.

There'd soon be no place for anything else. Or indeed,anything.

Except Urbies.

you say that like it's a bad thing?

[Dawnstealer]

I'm in that camp, too. While I think it's a goofy mech, I also think it has the possibility to be a goofy, EFFECTIVE mech.

In the right hands.

[Arete]

Dawnstealer, on 03 September 2014 - 06:43 AM, said:

I'm in that camp, too. While I think it's a goofy mech, I also think it has the possibility to be a goofy, EFFECTIVE mech.

In the right hands.

The hands that touches the Urbanmech are already on the path to righteousness.