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[Divine Retribution]

Wait wait wait.... Has it been Prussian and his alts that have been paying you to swap around this whole time?

Has anyone else actually hired MS?

[Saace]

CWI had three guys who shouldered the cost of hiring MS for three weeks towards the end of the first beta run. We broke it up into a two week and a one week contract. That last wolf stint was simply because we had such a good time playing with teams like CWI, SWOL and the rest of the wolves.

[Onmyoudo]

Prussian Havoc: how many c-bills do you actually have? You appear to be able to bankroll the entire Inner Sphere on a whim.

[Novawrecker]

Onmyoudo, on 02 May 2015 - 02:05 PM, said:

Prussian Havoc: how many c-bills do you actually have? You appear to be able to bankroll the entire Inner Sphere on a whim.

Blake comes to him for loans

[Prussian Havoc]

What use are a billion C-bills if you don't use them?


And what better way is there to use C-bills than try to show PGI and fellow gamers that the development and realization of true #MercLife functionalities is something that is viable and can take MWO,CW to the next level.

Where today in many instances I have to leave my Unit and Faction, travel to a prospective Mercenary Corps Unit, accept an invitation, make a small "good faith" donation to their Unit Fund, then leave Unit wait the 72-hour penalty, return and game in my original Unit. ALL having to just be repeated once again at the conclusion of a Unit's contract to complete payment of the base remuneration as well as any earned Performance Based Incentives.... is all so very cumbersome.

Perhaps one day, Unit Commanders (or officers with the appropriately delegated capability) will be able to pay Mercenaries directly from a Unit Fund without all the need for movements to and from actual Units and the resulting lost gaming time.



Through contracts and subsequent payments, I hope to get the gaining Mercenary Units to pursue short term goals this is true... but I also hope to communicate the potential inherent in #MercLife functionalities and hopefully convince others to similarly reach out to PGI.

Ideally PGI would continue to evolve CW so that PERMCON (Loyalist) Units form the static framework of CW's "Universe" and TEMPCON (Mercenary Corps) Units serve as fluid combat power that ebbs and flows to better augment Factional Offensive Campaigns or perhaps backstops Factional Defensive Efforts.

Different Mercenary Corps Units could become specialliEd at different combat missions - 12v12 but also the upcoming 4v4 mission sets. Differentiation of Unit and their subsequent remimbersement "prices" could then be developed, complete with dynamic market forces that effect Unit "Prices" driving down prices when too many Meecenaries are in play / simultaneously driving up PERMCON Unit incentives, and vica versa,



There really is a truly excellent and immersive quality to hiring Units like -MS-, 228, VRGD and Antares Scorpions. I would GREATLY prefer this immersive experience be shared by the vast bulk of gamers at the Unit level (where it belongs imo) than by individuals.

We can only hope CW Phase 3 or at the very least Phase 4 or 5 (as Russ alluded to at the last Townhall) moves MWO incrementally closer to #MercLife functionalities.

Edited by Prussian Havoc, 02 May 2015 - 04:02 PM.

[Deadfire]

Thanks to Havoc, 228th will have a Warship by time they are in the game.

[Connor Sellock]

Gordon Gecko, on 01 May 2015 - 12:21 PM, said:

The Merc Star Alliance is pleased to announce that we have accepted a contract with House Kurita. We look forward to working with other HK units.

o7

Many Mercenary Corps Units provide results.

Elite Mercenary Corps Units provide exceptional results.

The MercStar Alliance provides incomparable results:

Edited by Connor Sellock, 03 May 2015 - 10:29 AM.

[Oldbob10025]

Gordon Gecko, on 30 April 2015 - 02:22 PM, said:

On the eve of our victory over Tukayyid......

The Merc Star Alliance [-MS-] is seeking a contract w/ a House Employer, preferribly a 1-2 week contract length. If you are a IS House unit leader interested in procuring the services of MS please contact Antonius Rex or any MS officer and feel free to stop by the MS teamspeak.

We are going to leave this open for 24 hours so time is of the essence.

Update:
We are pleased to announce that MS has accepted a contract with House Kurita. Thank you to all the Unit Leaders that reached out to us.

Joining a house or anything means nothing just means you get some c-bills and some goodies from faction warfare.. There is no fluff in this game or anything that should resemble a game we loved as kids but now its Pew Pew pew we win...

Nothing.. so join any house you want because who cares means nothing but now you get to fight some other meaningless house for nothing..

Wish they made this game better and not set along the path of most games goes "Money" and not the fans.. Did these guys really play battletech or explore the universe we call the Inner SPhere? or clan space for that matter? Money money money money money money

Sigh

just a rant

[reign]

MS does as MS wants.

it is the largest faction in the game. As we can see on the CSJ boarder. (well what use to be CSJ).

Just don't fight em and they will get bored and move on. only strategy that works.

[Novawrecker]

Czarr, on 01 May 2015 - 09:06 PM, said:

They went to a faction who kills clanners in their under-roos how exciting

Cause nothing adds more insult to injury than "I keel'd you ... in MAH 'ROOS!"

PANTSLESS NATION!!!!!!!!

Edited by Novawrecker, 04 May 2015 - 02:16 PM.

[HARDKOR]

Ooooh, I am excite.
*puts on mortal kombat underoos*

[Crockdaddy]

Deadfire, on 02 May 2015 - 03:53 PM, said:

Thanks to Havoc, 228th will have a Warship by time they are in the game.

We need Prussian in Star Citizen!!

[Crockdaddy]

reign, on 04 May 2015 - 04:23 AM, said:

MS does as MS wants.

it is the largest faction in the game. As we can see on the CSJ boarder. (well what use to be CSJ).

Just don't fight em and they will get bored and move on. only strategy that works.

Actually that is kinda true. -MS- is fun to fight though for actual CW matches that don't end in seal clubbing. As long as we don't face two large MERC cartels at the same time I would normally consider it fun to fight them.

That being said ... I think map reset happened WAY to fast. I just spent 60+ hours dropping on Tukayyid and now the map is reset. I'd rather have CW beta 2 relaunched as an event with some updates and I could have built up momentum and energy in the unit. Instead ... meh. We field a 12 daily. Our Steam accounts however are fielding 2 full 12 man groups spread across Civ V, GTA5, ARM3, Path of Exile, etc.

[hybrid black]

Triskin, on 04 May 2015 - 02:46 AM, said:

Joining a house or anything means nothing just means you get some c-bills and some goodies from faction warfare.. There is no fluff in this game or anything that should resemble a game we loved as kids but now its Pew Pew pew we win...

Nothing.. so join any house you want because who cares means nothing but now you get to fight some other meaningless house for nothing..

Wish they made this game better and not set along the path of most games goes "Money" and not the fans.. Did these guys really play battletech or explore the universe we call the Inner SPhere? or clan space for that matter? Money money money money money money

Sigh

just a rant

MercStar has been under contracts from a few players for the last few months, the event was just a freebie for wolf.

[Armando]

Lily from animove, on 30 April 2015 - 11:03 PM, said:

I would suggest, make yourslefl a a big merc unit a little quest: , go liao, and try to open an attack lane up to the clanners.

While I enjoy the idea put forth, the reality is going Liao means nothing but turret drops. In my experience nothing is more boring than repeated turret drops. I have no idea how [TCAF] does it all the time but much respect for any unit with that much patience.

That said [-MS-] is all about the money... Marik, Liao, Davion...if one (or more) of them pays [-MS-] to open a lane up, the lane will get opened up. Simple as that.

Edited by Armando, 06 May 2015 - 11:55 AM.

[Prussian Havoc]

Crockdaddy, on 05 May 2015 - 06:24 AM, said:

We need Prussian in Star Citizen!!

I already have my Mustang Delta, military-grade Fighter ready for flight operations.

And I am wondering how this whole part ownership of Star Citizen Capitol Ships (Carriers, Battle Cruisers and Dreadnoughts) is going to go. When crew sizes get larger than 10, do you buy a "Gunnery Chief's position" or a "Navigator's position" or "Flight Operations position" (for Carriers)?

I enjoy the Arena Comander module and you know what the best part of Star Citizen is????











...EVERYONE use missiles!
(Sorry couldn't resist!)

[Connor Sellock]

Gordon Gecko, on 01 May 2015 - 12:21 PM, said:

The Merc Star Alliance is pleased to announce that we have accepted a contract with House Kurita. We look forward to working with other HK units.

o7

My contract with MercStar is now complete.

-MS- has contributed immeasurable to the full realization of OPN BULLDOG:



http://www.sarna.net...eration_Bulldog

[reign]

Connor Sellock, on 10 May 2015 - 03:43 PM, said:

My contract with MercStar is now complete.

-MS- has contributed immeasurable to the full realization of OPN BULLDOG:



http://www.sarna.net...eration_Bulldog

Congrats

[Tom Sawyer]

And in unsurprising news Smoke Jaguar High Command threw a ton of creds at -MS- who promptly rolled over and took back all twelve worlds in Operation Castrated Chihuahua.

When the High Khan of Smoke Jaguar was asked why they had to hire mercenaries to do what their own vaunted true born pilots could not said Khan flew into a rage and had the reporter spaced. He was last heard muttering just because he only had 5 true born pilots still loyal to the jags fighting there was no reason for such insolence.

Edited by Tom Sawyer, 11 May 2015 - 04:31 AM.

[reign]

Tom Sawyer, on 11 May 2015 - 04:30 AM, said:

And in unsurprising news Smoke Jaguar High Command threw a ton of creds at -MS- who promptly rolled over and took back all twelve worlds in Operation Castrated Chihuahua.

When the High Khan of Smoke Jaguar was asked why they had to hire mercenaries to do what their own vaunted true born pilots could not said Khan flew into a rage and had the reporter spaced. He was last heard muttering just because he only had 5 true born pilots still loyal to the jags fighting there was no reason for such insolence.

5 is a pretty high number I would think.