Shar Wolf, on 03 April 2014 - 08:30 PM, said:
Fixed that for you - specific designs still appear a lot more in specific houses.
True, but the purpose of
MWO isn't to build a canon Mech company, following standard-vs.-non-standard-unit rules. If you want to form a player-guild based on a specific House, and set "Only X% of players may use a non-standard Mech" as a guild rule, then feel free. But it's not mandatory. If anybody asks, you can always come up with a reason why your Marik character is traipsing about in an Atlas.
Shar Wolf, on 03 April 2014 - 08:30 PM, said:
1) Most people are mature enough to realize that: Fiction is just that - fiction
2) Most people are mature enough to realize the difference between a company saying "group-Y is like this" and a company saying "X years into the future a fictional group Z will be idolizing certain concepts will hold group-Y up as the ideal of that concept, while it being very obvious, even in the 80s, that group Z has no real idea what they are talking about"
3) Most people have never heard of Fasa, Battletech, or Mechwarrior, let alone be familiar enough with the factions to take offense.
You could apply the criteria of maturity and obscurity to a great number of class-action lawsuits...but somehow, people still brought them to court.
I'm not saying it
should have happened; I'm just expressing surprise that in 30-some years of BattleTech history, it never did.
IraqiWalker, on 03 April 2014 - 11:44 PM, said:
No one made that claim, I said some people see some american traditions in there. Mostly the AC fetishism I guess, as far as the political structures we've been mostly saying 100-years war era France/England.
Forgive me, my Overlord, but
Ghost Badger made that exact statement.
Ghost Badger, on 02 April 2014 - 06:40 AM, said:
Honestly, I've always thought of Davion as holding onto a LOT of French chivalric values with a sprinkling of American libertarian policy.
Now, I'm not a libertarian, but I know enough about the philosophy to recognize that a
centralized federal government in which most of the power is retained by a
hereditary monarchy whose monarchs
ARE REQUIRED BY LAW TO BE ARMY OFFICERS...is almost the opposite of libertarianism. That's like saying Sweden "has a sprinkling" of Genghis Khan's "Yassa" law-code. If we insist on attaching real-world political concepts to characters in a game of Giant Laser Robots...and apparently we do, for some reason...let's at least stick 'em with concepts that maybe make some kind of sense. Such as:
http://en.wikipedia....ened_absolutism
Or maybe even:
http://en.wikipedia....ederal_monarchy