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[Sirius Drake]

Hanseatische Liga FTW ^^

[Keira RAVEN McKenna]

My old home Hellsgate...

[mithril coyote]

The Advisor, on 26 August 2014 - 12:19 PM, said:

I was going to make a retort to the look what the bear dragged in but I think "You guys are colorless" is good enough. Literally look. No border lines, no faction color. Nothing at all yet.

Nice to see they included the Pentagon worlds though yes indeed.

actually the lack of color seems a fair approach to the complexity of clan territory.. few few worlds are held by only one clan, most have control of varying proportions of the different worlds. so like jade falcon holds 45%, wolf 35%, etc. representing ownership of various regions, communities, and infrastructure of the world. nor are these holdings always contiguous in terms of stellar geography.. some smaller clans might have their main world on one side of the homeworlds, and their other holdings mostly on the other side. the distances involved are short enough that you only really have one jump between most holdings of your clan. and with the clans using almost exclusively a challenge based warfare system in the homeworlds prior to the invasion, you can generally assume you'll have safe conduct between your various holdings, barring the occasional trial of posession for your cargo, which almost never involves the cargo dropships and the jumpships moving them, just the warrior caste escorts.

on the tabletop versions of the maps the homeworlds are usually just surrounded by a single grey area to mark all the clan's shared territory. but in the time MWO is currently set, the IS doesn't know where the homeworlds are, so the lack of any colored field to mark borders probably represents the fact those worlds are 'hidden' from the IS.

interestingly, the area the clans conquer in the IS is about 10x larger than the entire homeworlds.. and has about 2000x the population of the entire homeworlds.
the clan's had expected to blitzkreig to terra, where one clan would become the 'ilclan' as a result of conquering the home of humanity, and expected to become the head of a new star league. the plan looked something liek this:

step 1: invade a region more than 10,000,000x people than you
step 2: conquer terra, become ilclan
step 3: ? ?
step 4: profit!

Grimwill, on 27 August 2014 - 06:07 PM, said:

Comstar discovery here picking up five more planets on satellite !!!

the pentagon worlds.. the five worlds where kerensky formedthe clans after the SLDF in exile fell apart.

[_Comrade_]

You know whats weird? If you go to the faction tab in game as a clan loyalist it will say you are apart of clan ghost bear. I guess all loyalist are actually ghost bear bondsmen

[Keira RAVEN McKenna]

Thats why Clan Snow Raven will win, back alley deals, underhanded politics, Overwhelming naval assets and vague allegencies

[_Comrade_]

I want Eden.....that planet is legendary in JF lore

[CyclonerM]

You know what is weird?

If i am not wrong, Atreus (the Kerensky Cluster planet, not the capital of the FWL) is colored with green

[Keeshu]

I'm not lore buff on battletech. Just glancing at sarna I didn't see anything special about it, does anyone else know what it might mean?

Edit: Or do you think it might be an error or them testing something? I wouldn' be surprised if that was the case since I've seen some games do that with similar features before.

Edited by Keeshu, 01 September 2014 - 10:09 AM.

[CyclonerM]

Keeshu, on 01 September 2014 - 10:08 AM, said:

I'm not lore buff on battletech. Just glancing at sarna I didn't see anything special about it, does anyone else know what it might mean?

Edit: Or do you think it might be an error or them testing something? I wouldn' be surprised if that was the case since I've seen some games do that with similar features before.

I think it is an error, to be honest. There is literally no reason why it should have that color.

Besides, there are other oddities, like Tamar being showed as part of the FRR rather than Lyran.

[CoffiNail]

Like Terra being within the Lyran Border and not neutral?

[CyclonerM]

CoffiNail, on 01 September 2014 - 10:18 AM, said:

Like Terra being within the Lyran Border and not neutral?

True that!

Or a LOT of missing (aka not highlighted) district capitals like Oriente, Andurien, Pesht..

[Repasy Cooper]

Clan Home World Space in 3 quick steps:

1: Zoom out as far as possible on the star map.
2: Position the map so that the word "Rasalhague" is visible at the middle-bottom edge of the screen.
3: Zoom in until you see the planets.

Easy.

[VoodooLou Kerensky]

CyclonerM, on 01 September 2014 - 10:16 AM, said:

I think it is an error, to be honest. There is literally no reason why it should have that color.

Besides, there are other oddities, like Tamar being showed as part of the FRR rather than Lyran.

http://www.sarna.net...planet)#History It might be green like that to indicate a Revolt or Massacre took place. But Im leaning towards a error.

HA! Got the full link this time (I hope)

Edited by voodoolou kerensky, 06 September 2014 - 09:27 PM.

[CyclonerM]

voodoolou kerensky, on 06 September 2014 - 09:23 PM, said:

http://www.sarna.net...planet)#History It might be green like that to indicate a Revolt or Massacre took place. But Im leaning towards a error.

HA! Got the full link this time (I hope)

Well, to be honest i think it is definitely a bug

P.S. A Clan mate made me notice that in the map Tamar is considered part of the FRR instead of Lyran.. I think i already mentioned it.

voodoolou kerensky, on 06 September 2014 - 09:23 PM, said:

http://www.sarna.net...planet)#History It might be green like that to indicate a Revolt or Massacre took place. But Im leaning towards a error.

HA! Got the full link this time (I hope)

Well, to be honest i think it is definitely a bug

P.S. A Clan mate made me notice that in the map Tamar is considered part of the FRR instead of Lyran.. I think i already mentioned it.

[Gremlich Johns]

Although this starmap from NBT-HC is dated 3072, it will give you guys an idea of how immense the invasion task is.