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[Odanan]

Good news!

Can we see the Vindicator concept art?

ZIM, on 06 August 2014 - 07:57 PM, said:

Penalize Clan players for hitting multiple targets. Reward them for concentrating on one-on-one duels.

Clan player should get Experience/C-Bills differently: much more for kills, nothing (or negative) for assistance.

[Odanan]

IraqiWalker, on 06 August 2014 - 08:06 PM, said:

All mechs already come with C3i modules in them by default right now.

Without them you wouldn't be sharing targeting data with your team.

And all mechs come with Null Signature System by default right now.

Without them, you could "ping" a mech in radar from kilometers.

[knight-of-ni]

and to think that I was planning on creating a unit called "Shack of Squires"

[Sarlic]

About time. Thanks for the clear communication and working screenshots.

[Bartholomew bartholomew]

When are we gonna get info on the weekend of the 15th clan matchup event. Is it gonna be teams or are you gonna set up Private match pug ups for those interested in participating outside of teams?

Cause it sounds interesting and I can spend some time on it saturday morning, and possibly sunday morning as well.

[Karzer]

I've got a question which is quite important to our unit. If we register as mercs in August, will we be able to "convert" ourselves to being a house unit later on?

Sorry if this has been asked before.

[Tombstoner]

personly dont like the star background... will consider it a grafic bug from taking picture. hope it will be removed or fixed for releace.

[van Uber]

Morang, on 07 August 2014 - 03:15 AM, said:

Here, have it down your throat, lazy greedy schmucks. A list of WoT maps, 44 total (in Russian, 'cause English wiki page is obsolete and faulty formated). "Not a priority"? Your rascal @$$es sinking in Fraser River won't be a priority for me to throw a lifebouy at.

Oh come on. Was it released with 44 maps? No, a year after beta they had what, 15 maps in rotation? And some of them were terrible. Wargaming has done a lot of things "better" than PGI, but comparing MWO to present day WoT is not really constructive.

[Khujjo]

Will we be able to change our pilot names? Our unit placed tags in our names already and would likely prefer to modify them to avoid duplicates.

[CeeKay Boques]

Thanks for the update. I'm glad there is a way to have a unit in the game. I already knew there would be sales every week, I judge on what's been done before, and there you are pretty consistent. This looks like the "Stack up those points for new faction rewards and ranks!" direction I was fearing. Sorry if I'm not excited, but you have 7 pages of people that are excited that mechs are being released, and that there is a map graphic, so you've got that. These are good foundations for the actual CW that you will make after this, I will pretend.

[Tarzilman]

The map looks like it was drawn by a 3 year old child.

[Butane9000]

We've been asking over and over but are you going to allow custom house units to create a in house merc unit or will we be just stuck with the regular house units?

[Jonny Taco]

"Aug 15^th: Faction-themed sale and casual 12 vs 10 Clan balance test using the Private Match window and streamed over Twitch with rewards for participants. Please set aside time this weekend if you feel you have a strong opinion on the 12v10 balance question." -Russ

You know, being bitter just got a bit more difficult. As someone who posts allot of negative comments on these boards I figure it's only fair to say "**** yeah!!" when things I've been clamoring about for the past half year start to go my/our way. I look forward to the event this weekend! Thanks Russ!

[Gyrok]

Yes, this looks good...

Now about clan units?

[TyrEol]

Nice update, good to know roughly what's going on over the next month.

Looking forward to the bare bones of CW phase 1. I'm hoping the unit chat channels as outlined in Paul's post turn up in some usable form and not buried in the UI as far down as the private messages are now.

Think IRC style always visible, click and type chat box in the bottom right or left of the UI whilst not in a match, on that note a faction chat channel would also be good. Chat channels need to be toggle-able on an individual basis though.

[Hungry Hungry Hobo]

Nice

[Gtbuck]

I didn't see it in the June notes, or in this latest update so I'm hoping this is just an oversight. Please go back to the original idea of having some kind of cost to create a unit, preferably a steep c-bill cost, but a small MC charge wouldn't be out of the question.
I really think you guys had a good idea where....I can't remember the number, but somewhere around 5 founding members had to poney up 16 million c-bills each.
Please put in some kind of control to limit the mayhem a bit.

[Gorgo7]

Sandslice, on 06 August 2014 - 08:30 PM, said:

So, a couple questions:

1. (Q) Will Davion and Steiner be merged into FedCom (per tabletop for this time-period) or remain separate (as MWO has so far consistently maintained?) Either answer is fine; it's just a curiosity.

2. Could you patch us in (I'd imagine not, because Russ would have) on the sequence of the remaining Faction Sales? I know we've just had Kurita - and Liao's totally getting their signature medium 'Mech this month...

3. Will units have faction associations, or are they inherently mercenary?
Also, minor feature request: extra presets for faction-themed ranks. I understand that the US Army (why not the Canadian army? ) is a handy default; but the Houses use other naming schemes and ranks.

House - real-world parallel
Steiner - German
Davion - British
Kurita - Japanese
Liao - Chinese
Marik - generally American, though the "Marshal" rank is more typically English or French
FRR - Swedish
Clans - none (unusual)

It'd be a bit more immersive.

There is a button allowing you to rename ranks. Look again.

[Fiona Marshe]

mp00, on 06 August 2014 - 07:43 PM, said:

Though it is already announced and talked about a lot still hard to see the words...

" 2) Unit names must be unique and not one of the existing units in Battletech Lore."

Also of concern is the people who get first crack at names and lay claim to the tags to existing units (non Battletech Lore) like someone else goes out and grabs 228th or SJR before they can...

PGI have had a project running off and on in the background for 3 years? about this. Units that have been around for a while have unit leaders that should be in communication with them. If they haven't, they need to PM Niko quick smart.

My old unit had a leadership team that got to visit PGI for alpha testing occasionally (Clan playtesting... 12 months before they even announced them publicly... *drools*)

[VXJaeger]

We need more than 4 characters for unit names and alternative separators.
Our units tag is [ASE**] in every game we play as community, and we would like to keep it that way.

Edited by VXJaeger, 07 August 2014 - 06:31 AM.