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[Vassago Rain]

Sephlock, on 02 August 2014 - 04:21 AM, said:

More likely they'll have Clan "Merc Units".

I bet they'll be clan house units. You'll fight to take planets for the house known as CLANS. I'll be STEINER. Can't wait for CW phase #675: blue fists versus spinning bearpaws.

[GalaxyBluestar]

Sephlock, on 02 August 2014 - 04:21 AM, said:

More likely they'll have Clan "Merc Units".

stars instead of lances are hard to program brah.

[Sephlock]

Vassago Rain, on 02 August 2014 - 04:23 AM, said:

I bet they'll be clan house units. You'll fight to take planets for the house known as CLANS. I'll be STEINER. Can't wait for CW phase #675: blue fists versus spinning bearpaws.

It's not completely out of the question .

[Vassago Rain]

Sephlock, on 02 August 2014 - 04:39 AM, said:

It's not completely out of the question .

At least there's no way CW will be less exciting than the clan invasion.

[Sephlock]

Alistair Winter, on 02 August 2014 - 04:23 AM, said:

I would think loyalty points would be delayed untill we actually had faction vs faction matches. Right now, I'm likely to kill as many FRR guys as Kurita guys in any given match. Would be silly to get loyalty points for killing Kuritas, when I'm butchering my own "countrymen" left, right and center.

It happens

[Livewyr]

I thought I heard this somewhere, but could someone clarify?

Loyalty Points (when they arrive) will be earned *only* if you are in a mech that fits your faction? (Like a Steiner piloting a Dire Wolf would not earn LP?)

[Cion]

Sephlock, on 02 August 2014 - 04:45 AM, said:

It happens

Lol.

So basically for us Lone Wolves there will be no change, whatsoever in CW phase 1.

Oh well! I suppose it's needed for other stuff.

Russ, you said on reddit here http://www.reddit.co...ent_of_piranha/ (lame phone link) that there would be a map implemented in PHASE 1. Don't forget.

Edit messed up link on phone.

Edited by Cion, 02 August 2014 - 05:40 AM.

[Alistair Winter]

Livewyr, on 02 August 2014 - 05:00 AM, said:

I thought I heard this somewhere, but could someone clarify?
Loyalty Points (when they arrive) will be earned *only* if you are in a mech that fits your faction? (Like a Steiner piloting a Dire Wolf would not earn LP?)

If people can get Steiner loyalty points while piloting Clan mechs, I will be extremely vocal about my discontent. At that point, we may as well abandon any pretense of a Battletech game and just let people pilot AT-AT walkers, Warlord Titans, Gundams and Power Ranger Zords.

[MadPanda]

Good that cw finally has a date. But phase 1 is the most unexciting phase of them so not really excited about it.

[Chemie]

so is this supposed to be "Merc Unit Phase 1"?? which is 56% complete?

Or just the unit creation subbset? (closer 60% complete)

I mean, what is CW Phase 1 anymore?

(Cockpit glass is part of CW implementation according to The Plan)

[Novakaine]

Vassago Rain, on 02 August 2014 - 04:18 AM, said:

Clans were not part of the initial napkin design, as laid down back in 2012. I'm afraid you're gonna have to wait another 2 years, plus 60 to 90 days, before they'll start on clan life phase #1.

Soooooo, they finally found that napkin hmmmmm.

[Livewyr]

Alistair Winter, on 02 August 2014 - 05:39 AM, said:

If people can get Steiner loyalty points while piloting Clan mechs, I will be extremely vocal about my discontent. At that point, we may as well abandon any pretense of a Battletech game and just let people pilot AT-AT walkers, Warlord Titans, Gundams and Power Ranger Zords.

You forgot Voltron.

[Monkey Lover]

Cion, on 02 August 2014 - 05:38 AM, said:

Lol.

So basically for us Lone Wolves there will be no change, whatsoever in CW phase 1.

Oh well! I suppose it's needed for other stuff.

Russ, you said on reddit here http://www.reddit.co...ent_of_piranha/ (lame phone link) that there would be a map implemented in PHASE 1. Don't forget.

Edit messed up link on phone.

You can fix that lone wolf problem real fast Just select the purple chicken and winning will never be a problem

[Willard Phule]

As much as I've been waiting for it, I can't seem to shake the feeling that everyone is going to be seriously disappointed by this whole thing.

One of the biggest problems is something that's been echoed in this thread over and over....a lack of people to join a unit. Originally, PGI put out that you would need a minimum of 12 players and each one would have to pay 18.8 million cbills (a 1/12 portion of the cost of a dropship) as part of the startup cost.

Sure, there are still large, organized units out there that can handle this....but I've got a hunch it'll be a lot less than they were hoping for. They're going to have to loosen up those restrictions if they're going to have as much interest in this as they wanted.

Edited by Willard Phule, 02 August 2014 - 06:54 AM.

[Alistair Winter]

I just found the answer to the question of Loyalty points. Apparently, "Contracts" are "the backbone for earning Loyalty points" and PGI has only marked a 15% progress with Contracts. So it looks like we're still very far from getting any loyalty points at all.

I just think its hilarious that after the game has been out 3 years and most of the people still playing have collected all the mechs in the game, PGI will finally implement a system that gives players a 10% C-bill discount when buying a Jenner. It's like going up to your 40-year-old son and finally giving him the football shoes he needed when he was 11 years old.

What am I going to do with a discount on medium lasers? I have 200 of them in storage. I could probably build a small village made out of leftover gauss rifles, for God's sake.

Chemie, on 02 August 2014 - 06:21 AM, said:

(Cockpit glass is part of CW implementation according to The Plan)

That's hilarious too! Nice find.

[Vassago Rain]

Willard Phule, on 02 August 2014 - 06:52 AM, said:

As much as I've been waiting for it, I can't seem to shake the feeling that everyone is going to be seriously disappointed by this whole thing.

One of the biggest problems is something that's been echoed in this thread over and over....a lack of people to join a unit. Originally, PGI put out that you would need a minimum of 12 players and each one would have to pay 18.8 million cbills (a 1/12 portion of the cost of a dropship) as part of the startup cost.

Sure, there are still large, organized units out there that can handle this....but I've got a hunch it'll be a lot less than they were hoping for. They're going to have to loosen up those restrictions if they're going to have as much interest in this as they wanted.

My hype reserves were drained ages ago. Seems it happened to everybody else, too, since this thread has 2 pages of comments.

I don't know they'll engage old players who have everything, or somehow attract new players who'll run into the old players who have everything, and promptly ragequit the game.

[fleshwoundNPG]

Cool.

Now, about these server issues...

[Willard Phule]

Vassago Rain, on 02 August 2014 - 07:29 AM, said:

My hype reserves were drained ages ago. Seems it happened to everybody else, too, since this thread has 2 pages of comments.

I don't know they'll engage old players who have everything, or somehow attract new players who'll run into the old players who have everything, and promptly ragequit the game.

And that's the part that bothers me the most.

Even if one of the requirements to form a unit is that they own their own dropship, I fail to see why a unit cannot be formed with anything less than a Union (assuming that's what they're gettting at with a 1/12 share of a dropship). A Leopard costs 75 million cbills (for the upgraded version) and fits 4 mechs. That's completely viable.

The concept is that a unit must own it's own ship is completely ludicrous since transportation is a standard in contracts, but I guess we'll just have to wait and see how this portapotty sorts itself out.

[Viges]

Alistair Winter, on 02 August 2014 - 05:39 AM, said:

just let people pilot AT-AT walkers, Warlord Titans, Gundams and Power Ranger Zords.

So many great ideas, so many! Hire that man already PGI! Just imagine how many people would pay for at-at walkers!

[Kinski Orlawisch]

@Viges: Slap. Nobody. This is not Star Wars.

I hope we get more Information soon. But the broken servers are really an issue now. I want CW. I Need CW warfare.
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