Okay to help sumarize here's the Google+ post from
Mechwarrior Online.
Okay so Russ was clarifying stuff relating to the founders packs and here's the skinny I pulled out of the conversation:
1. All founder packs that have mechs will still leave you with 4 extra garage slots. That means if you buy the Legendary pack you will have 8 slots, 4 of which will be filled.
2. All founder mechs are the PRIME Variants, i.e. the
sarna.net defaults in the sidebar mechs. This also means they overwrite the "first tier" defaults for each of these mechs. As such they are fully customizable and have the exact same hard-points as the non-founder variants. The only bonus is the paint and a lifetime 25% C-bill bonus.
3. You MAY upgrade packages up to August 7th. So buy early and upgrade if you can' t pay for it all now. Also sales should be open to at least July 15th. (he's not confirming past that point)
4. The "month of premium" provides a 50% Boost to XP and C-bills. The Founder mech 25% bonus to C-bills STACKS with the premium time.
5. All you EU and other place players will be allowed to move whatever you have on the NA server to the EU server FOR FREE when the EU (or wherever) server opens.
6. The "$80 of in game money" is "ballpark subject to change" equal to about 8 Medium mechs. So about $10 a medium mech. We're guesstimating that you can probably get 6 Heavies and 4 Assaults with that money. TOTAL CONJECTURE AT THIS POINT AND NOT CONFIRMED!
I hope this helps you make any purchasing decisions!