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[Pariah Devalis]

Hawk819, on 30 May 2014 - 12:55 PM, said:

that's precisely what I mean. Or how can we select the variants themselves??

They are selling mech variants as mechs. IE: The Prime is one mech, the Bravo is one mech, the Sigma is one mech. Choosing one or another will be just like choosing to pilot a Highlander over a Victor or a Raven. It will be in your mechlab to choose as usual. The center torso and legs of the mech is what the system uses to ID the mech as a given variant, and you need a three variant system to use the current XP system. The omni-pods that constitute the arms and side torso of the various "variants" of the same chassis are interchangable, is all.

[Alaskan Nobody]

Pariah Devalis, on 30 May 2014 - 12:59 PM, said:

The omni-pods that constitute the arms and side torso of the various "variants" of the same chassis are interchangable, is all.

Which brings up some interesting imagery.

Since you would need to take the arm-pods off to put them on another mech - will we potentially have half-built chassis sitting in our mechbays?

IE a TW that is just the CT head and legs?

[Mechwarrior413183]

I think I'll go Jade Falcon or Smoke Jaguar anyone recruiting eager nabs?

[CyclonerM]

Mockeryangel, on 31 May 2014 - 07:31 AM, said:

I think I'll go Jade Falcon or Smoke Jaguar anyone recruiting eager nabs?

Check their subforums, there are a couple of units recruiting.

[Kodiak Jorgensson]

Shar Wolf, on 30 May 2014 - 05:06 PM, said:

Which brings up some interesting imagery.

Since you would need to take the arm-pods off to put them on another mech - will we potentially have half-built chassis sitting in our mechbays?

IE a TW that is just the CT head and legs?

if you read the command chair posts it sounds like we might be able to swap legs too...so maybe just a CT held up by a crane

[Alaskan Nobody]

Kodiak Jorgensson, on 31 May 2014 - 05:30 PM, said:

.......held up by a crane

I can only hope ...

[StormDll]

What is Clan Banner? what to do with this?

[Javin]

I would be excited if clans mattered. Right now there is no CW. So clan mechs only add better mechs to the game. I wish this was different. I wish clans and houses ment something. I would love this game so much more. I want planets and battlegrounds and our fight to MEAN something. Right now it is just grinding.

All I see is tons of people using clan mechs because they seem to be so much better than IS mechs.

[CyclonerM]

StormDll, on 31 May 2014 - 06:05 PM, said:

What is Clan Banner? what to do with this?

It is one of the cockpit items you get buying a Clan pack, the May monthly reward. From the picture on the website i guess it is a map of Strana Mechty basically. Not bad, but i would have preferred Kerensky's hologram or the Clan dagger-star..

[Dark DeLaurel]

CyclonerM, on 01 June 2014 - 02:54 AM, said:

Not bad, but i would have preferred Kerensky's hologram or the Clan dagger-star..

We did get Kerensky's hologram, check your inventory.

[Josef Koba]

I purchased a Clan pack, and will no doubt be driving Clan mechs here and there. I don't know how they're implementing CW and as of now they aren't restricting purchases to Houses (in terms of pilotable mechs), so at this point it's moot. However, I will not be switching my allegiance to a Clan. Probably not ever. I'm House Davion until the day I die and I will pilot my (non-house) Atlas with the intent to destroy clanners with impunity.

[CyclonerM]

Dark DeLaurel, on 01 June 2014 - 05:37 AM, said:

We did get Kerensky's hologram, check your inventory.

But it was a monthly reward a few months ago and i purchased a Timberwolf on the 30th of May.,,

[Pariah Devalis]

Yeah.... but it was not exactly unlisted. Unlike the community rewards.

[Elric Tchernovkov]

If PGI was going to follow canon, there would be no ER large Lasers or Streaks currently. Same to be said for numerous weapons and equipment currently available to IS chassis.
That being said, why are there only going to be 4 available Clan tags? Will there be more eventually? Or will everyone who calls themselves a "Clanner" eventually have to adopt one of the 4 "main" Clan factions.
Seeing as this is a primarily a community driven game, why can there not be more factions? Especially since the way they have it now, everyone has to join Big Brother or be no better than a mercenary unit.
Speaking of which, what role will mercenary units play? As it stands now you can have a mercenary unit of unlimited size, but be unable to attack anything but border and periphery worlds? As a member of a Clan who is not in "The Big Four" I feel highly insulted and left out. Why not let a Clan who has the numbers take the spot of a clan who invaded by canon, but in MWO is a virtual unknown with little to no membership or active players? I mean if Canon is such gospel why are there mechs in this game already that were not created until 3055? Look up the Raven if you do not know what I mean. PGI has proved many times that canon is just a crutch for them to lean on when they do not want to do something.
So, I challenge you PGI, truly make this a player run community. Grant faction tags based on player base and not some stupid "Canon Bible" you feel the need to fall back on when you do not have an answer. I mean honestly, who is in Clan Diamond Shark? Sorry guys I know there are a few of you.
And for that idioy who had the audacity to mention a Clan that has been reaved.... I will see you in game.

[Alaskan Nobody]

Elric Tchernovkov, on 02 June 2014 - 07:57 PM, said:

That being said, why are there only going to be 4 available Clan tags?

For someone complaining of another person not following the Canon - you seem to display a lack of awareness of it yourself.

There were only 4 invading clans to begin with.

[Lukoi Banacek]

So which Raven variant wasn't created until 3055?

So why your Clan (btw, no idea who you're with, never seen you in-game, or in competition unlike most of the other units here) over CDS? By your argument, both should be equally available for representation, so why throw them under the bus?

Lastly...paragraphs help your presentation come across as meaningful feedback and potentially criticism worth considering, but a giant block makes it look like a rant. In my limited experience, that kind of stuff just tends to get ignored, whether it's worthy feedback or not. Just food for thought.

Edited by Lukoi, 02 June 2014 - 08:37 PM.

[Dark DeLaurel]

Elric Tchernovkov, on 02 June 2014 - 07:57 PM, said:

If PGI was going to follow canon, there would be no ER large Lasers or Streaks currently. Same to be said for numerous weapons and equipment currently available to IS chassis.

ER Large Lasers were around starting @ 3037 http://www.sarna.net/wiki/ER_Large
Stream SRM-2 were around starting @ 3035 http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Streak_2

Name the others and I have no problems looking them up for you, as you do not seem to want to look at Sarna or grab one of the many sourcebooks out there.

Elric Tchernovkov, on 02 June 2014 - 07:57 PM, said:

That being said, why are there only going to be 4 available Clan tags? Will there be more eventually? Or will everyone who calls themselves a "Clanner" eventually have to adopt one of the 4 "main" Clan factions.

As Wolf, Jade Falcon, Ghost Bears, Smoke Jaguars were the ones that won the trials for Operation Revival http://www.sarna.net...eration_Revival So it makes sense for them to be the first Clans in the timeline.

Elric Tchernovkov, on 02 June 2014 - 07:57 PM, said:

Seeing as this is a primarily a community driven game, why can there not be more factions? Especially since the way they have it now, everyone has to join Big Brother or be no better than a mercenary unit.
Speaking of which, what role will mercenary units play? As it stands now you can have a mercenary unit of unlimited size, but be unable to attack anything but border and periphery worlds? As a member of a Clan who is not in "The Big Four" I feel highly insulted and left out. Why not let a Clan who has the numbers take the spot of a clan who invaded by canon, but in MWO is a virtual unknown with little to no membership or active players?

This is not a numbers game per say. If they stray too much from the source they will kill off the rest of us that love BattleTech. It is a fine line they are walking and are doing a so-so job of it right now. The same could be said for the Inner Sphere units, there are no Periphery states.

Elric Tchernovkov, on 02 June 2014 - 07:57 PM, said:

I mean if Canon is such gospel why are there mechs in this game already that were not created until 3055? Look up the Raven if you do not know what I mean. PGI has proved many times that canon is just a crutch for them to lean on when they do not want to do something.
So, I challenge you PGI, truly make this a player run community. Grant faction tags based on player base and not some stupid "Canon Bible" you feel the need to fall back on when you do not have an answer. I mean honestly, who is in Clan Diamond Shark? Sorry guys I know there are a few of you.
And for that idioy who had the audacity to mention a Clan that has been reaved.... I will see you in game.

The Raven was put into production in 3024 by the Capellan Confederation. So what is wrong with it? Please before you start ranting and raving and posting walls of incoherent text, do your research and then take the time to post a well thought out and laid out post.

[Gremlich Johns]

Nothing says the Clans cannot have a separate Homeworlds League, eh!