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[Bongo TauKat]

This info has me stoked. Real mech fans making a game for mech fans while showing massive support for said game.

I wonder if MicroSoft ever thought about this sort of reaction, or were they too big to give a crap figuring on quantity to the masses.

I look at Mechwarrior games like Star Trek movies. Sure you will not get everyone in the world to watch them, but the fan base is big enough to guarantee sales at a certain level.

[Threat Doc]

Squidhead Jax, on 30 June 2012 - 04:53 AM, said:

Woo, Capellan Confederation... still the underdogs!

(I wonder if there's going to be some mechanic to account for numerical imbalance, or we're just going to take it up the #%! like in canon?)

I have long been an advocate of having benchmarks for the Houses, and separate benchmarks for Merc units, where all Houses have to meet a certain number ceiling, and then the ceiling could be adjusted from there, whether by 4 members each, or 12, 36, whatever. A lot of folks on these forums have not been fans of doing anything like this, but they simply fail to realize, or acknowledge if they have realized it, how imbalanced EVERY League in the past has been, with regards to the Houses. Davion ALWAYS comes out on top, followed closely by Kurita, then Marik and Steiner, and Liao always ends up at the ***-end of the universe for numbers. It was so bad in Inner Sphere Wars that my merc unit was FORCED, literally transferred while I slept, by Vermatrix to fill out House Liao, a faction I despise equally to the Clans, in February '08, I think it was. I immediately withdrew AU from ISW and never went back.

I'm not saying that Liao should be equal to the other Houses in people, but I AM saying that they should fall within a certain percentage of the other Houses for in-game population.

As for Mercs, I think the benchmark should be adjusted Lance for Lance, but there should be an option for a unit to opt out once it reaches a certain number; say you have a Merc Corps that only wants 12 people in it, they should be able to go Lance for Lance, building up along with everyone else, until they reach 12 members, and then they're removed from that scale, and can not begin building up again until that benchmark is released, some time down the road. I'm looking at placing a maximum of 360 folks in AU, giving us 9 full Battalions of 36 each plus a Headquarters Lance per Battalion, because that's the Fanon strength we were sitting at in 3050.

[Dark Fury]

Just curious how you got the numbers on the mercenary factions? I'd love to declare my support for one.

[Doddadin]

I love the info graphics. Please keep up with these charts in the future, very cool to see.

[Illusion Tokomi]

ShiftyDevil, on 20 June 2012 - 01:16 PM, said:

Heh, the joke yesterday was that I spent $120 on a free to play game that hasn't been released yet.

When you put it that way...

[Wildcat]

omg... they are swimming in my Money !

very interesting data tho


Good Job for a game that hasnt even come out yet lol ! its off to a very healthy start

[HybridTheory]

Comguard, on 20 June 2012 - 01:04 PM, said:

Edit: Why so much hate against Comstar? They are the only light in times of darkness.

I disagree... a pair of flamers and a PPC will light the way very nicely in times of darkness

[ORIGINAL SteelWolf]

Bongo TauKat Talasko, on 30 June 2012 - 05:53 AM, said:

This info has me stoked. Real mech fans making a game for mech fans while showing massive support for said game.

I wonder if MicroSoft ever thought about this sort of reaction, or were they too big to give a crap figuring on quantity to the masses.

I look at Mechwarrior games like Star Trek movies. Sure you will not get everyone in the world to watch them, but the fan base is big enough to guarantee sales at a certain level.

And they have a controller for mech fans in the works. Not just a gaming controller a Mech controller

[takashi]

Great to see the stats, thanks very much

[jrock]

reading this kinda makes you wonder if they have could have self-financed a console and PC proper version of this game with kickstarter or some such thing.

$1MM is a hell of a lot of money, except that I know they already spent a fair chunk of that on those CG trailers in 2009.

[Endless Ike]

Poor house Liao...I do hope they get some more goonswarm bump to help even the numbers a bit...hell, even Marik needs some help.

any chance for updated data? Apologies if its somewhere in here, I didn't read all 11 pages...

[Cole Christensen]

So many Legendary; I feel so much less special.

[Hawkeye 72]

JRock, on 02 July 2012 - 09:27 AM, said:

reading this kinda makes you wonder if they have could have self-financed a console and PC proper version of this game with kickstarter or some such thing.

$1MM is a hell of a lot of money, except that I know they already spent a fair chunk of that on those CG trailers in 2009.

1 million is not nearly enough to fund such a venture. While this is a great number to see, it is a small drop in the bucket in the big scheme of things.

Endless Ike, on 02 July 2012 - 09:31 AM, said:

Poor house Liao...I do hope they get some more goonswarm bump to help even the numbers a bit...hell, even Marik needs some help.

any chance for updated data? Apologies if its somewhere in here, I didn't read all 11 pages...

I update every week or two. However the recent midwest storm has prevented me from doing some updated statistics before I leave to go camping for a week. When I get back I will run all the numbers again.

[Aidyan Pryde]

I must admit i am surprised to see the release of financial data... must be some sort of Comstar ploy to get the Mercs interested and promise some sort of loyalty based on cash..

If only companies realised they could offer loyalty for a price... Oh wait

[Schtirlitz]

Hawkeye 72, on 02 July 2012 - 01:03 PM, said:

1 million is not nearly enough to fund such a venture. While this is a great number to see, it is a small drop in the bucket in the big scheme of things.

You're right but i hope this will motivate them to oper Euro servers sooner

[Gamgee]

Cool stats, love em.

[Accuso]

are you going to update them once again :-D and if yes... when ???

[Hawkeye 72]

Accuso, on 03 July 2012 - 02:12 PM, said:

are you going to update them once again :-D and if yes... when ???

Oh yes these stats are updated once a week or so. I was hoping to update this week, but alas I JUST got power restored (since Friday afternoon, so 4+ days with no power) and as a result I am leaving for my camping trip/vacation ASAP. If I don't go tonight, I will do a full update. If I do, then Sunday evening I will drop new statistics.

While I am on vacation I will be working (ha ironic I know) on a new idea of how to provide this data and make it readily available whenever anyone pleases. OSD has a few things in the works and hopes to initiate phase II by August 7th.

[Nikohki]

As a scientician, I can appreciate reporting of relevant data. Thanks.

[Threat Doc]

Hawkeye 72, on 03 July 2012 - 03:20 PM, said:

Oh yes these stats are updated once a week or so. I was hoping to update this week, but alas I JUST got power restored (since Friday afternoon, so 4+ days with no power) and as a result I am leaving for my camping trip/vacation ASAP. If I don't go tonight, I will do a full update. If I do, then Sunday evening I will drop new statistics.

While I am on vacation I will be working (ha ironic I know) on a new idea of how to provide this data and make it readily available whenever anyone pleases. OSD has a few things in the works and hopes to initiate phase II by August 7th.

Hawkeye, I just heard about the sudden storms and the power being out. This is not a requirement for you, man, so go and enjoy your camping trip, don't worry about Sunday... just, when you can, alright?