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[Docta Pain]

I am rather lost still with regards to CW & factions.

If a Merc Unit adopts the faction of its founder, how do loyalty points accumulate if you
1) are not in the same faction
2) have a medallion in you cockpit for a different faction
3) are using other-tech (IS with Clan Merc Unit / Clan with IS Merc Unit)
4) do I need to unify all the items (my faction, Unit Faction, Medallion) in the same allegiance to have a bonus

Do I have to resign from an IS unit and join a Clan unit to use clan mechs?

Can I accumulate loyalty points for my Merc Unit if I am not in the Merc Unit's faction?

Does winning create loyalty points for my Merc Unit? Why is there no forum heading dedicated to CW and Factions and how they work?

[CycKath]

All very good questions.

Hopefully PGI will let us know the close they get to releasing CW Module 1 later this month, it would certainly be nice.

[Asmudius Heng]

All questions that should have been answered long before PGI sold people clan mechs and the loyalty points stuff from the phoenix release.

It was highly unethical for them to sell anything faction specific before CW was explained.

[Dirgez]

The way it has been explained is that mercs accept contracts for a specific faction and the merc unit will recieve loyalty points for contract completion.

[Belorion]

Hey Asmu, hope you are doing good.

I am assuming that having a medal from a different faction simply won't do anything for the drop.

[Asmudius Heng]

Hey Bel, doing ok - not much time for meching though in US times

To add to my gripe - I do not think the cosmetic stuff does anything at all - it is just cosmetic but hey, maybe hey are going to make a mini game of it ...

From what has been released you can do anything in the regular drops but you will not be able to use clan in IS and vice versa in general. Though I think swapping factions will not be hard.

That about the extent of the info and subject to PGI whims of change

[Lefty Lucy]

Nobody knows yet.

[Voidcrafter]

Lefty Lucy, on 11 August 2014 - 08:16 PM, said:

Nobody knows yet.

I know right?
We're week away from being hit in the face with it and even so... nobody knows a sheet
Tbh the lag concerns me more - with CW or not, even if they implement Chuck Norris in the game - if the lag renders it unplayeble it won't make any difference...
And the lag IS PGI issue.

[Johnny Z]

Looking forward to phase one of Galactic Warfare, Cw sounds silly and has nothing to do with Mechwarrior so i dont call it CW

Also they recently upgraded their servers for the larger number of players causing lag, and its very rare i ever lag luckily.

Not sure how much they will be explaining about the factions this coming phase, but who know's, they might be showing some of future phases soon?

Edited by Johnny Z, 11 August 2014 - 11:00 PM.

[Lefty Lucy]

Voidcrafter, on 11 August 2014 - 10:54 PM, said:

I know right?
We're week away from being hit in the face with it and even so... nobody knows a sheet
Tbh the lag concerns me more - with CW or not, even if they implement Chuck Norris in the game - if the lag renders it unplayeble it won't make any difference...
And the lag IS PGI issue.

They've even told us that Phase 1 of CW isn't really going to do much for the large majority of the player base. People really shouldn't get too excited yet.

[Belorion]

A day away yeah? Less than even.

[Voidcrafter]

Belorion, on 11 August 2014 - 11:36 PM, said:

A day away yeah? Less than even.

More like a week away as far as I know

[Impyrium]

Voidcrafter, on 11 August 2014 - 10:54 PM, said:

I know right?
We're week away from being hit in the face with it and even so... nobody knows a sheet
Tbh the lag concerns me more - with CW or not, even if they implement Chuck Norris in the game - if the lag renders it unplayeble it won't make any difference...
And the lag IS PGI issue.

Well, really we're only going to get the unit creation. I don't think we'll be able to actually do anything with them yet.

[Davers]

Docta Pain, on 11 August 2014 - 07:11 PM, said:

I am rather lost still with regards to CW & factions.

If a Merc Unit adopts the faction of its founder, how do loyalty points accumulate if you
1) are not in the same faction
2) have a medallion in you cockpit for a different faction
3) are using other-tech (IS with Clan Merc Unit / Clan with IS Merc Unit)
4) do I need to unify all the items (my faction, Unit Faction, Medallion) in the same allegiance to have a bonus

Do I have to resign from an IS unit and join a Clan unit to use clan mechs?

Can I accumulate loyalty points for my Merc Unit if I am not in the Merc Unit's faction?

Does winning create loyalty points for my Merc Unit? Why is there no forum heading dedicated to CW and Factions and how they work?

Merc units by definition do not have a set faction, even though they could just take contracts from that faction. Units that are actually 'part of a house' aka Faction Units were not part of the original CW plan (somehow), and have not been fully fleshed out yet.

[MonkeyCheese]

Docta Pain, on 11 August 2014 - 07:11 PM, said:

If a Merc Unit adopts the faction of its founder, how do loyalty points accumulate if you
1) are not in the same faction

I assume that you will be locked into whatever faction the founder/unit is listed as.

Docta Pain, on 11 August 2014 - 07:11 PM, said:

If a Merc Unit adopts the faction of its founder, how do loyalty points accumulate if you
2) have a medallion in you cockpit for a different faction

I Assume nothing at all will happen.

Docta Pain, on 11 August 2014 - 07:11 PM, said:

If a Merc Unit adopts the faction of its founder, how do loyalty points accumulate if you
3) are using other-tech (IS with Clan Merc Unit / Clan with IS Merc Unit)

Will be pointless at this stage of CW but with time I will assume that IS/Clan sides will be locked with their respective tech for community warfare battles where the public queues will be the current free for all.

Docta Pain, on 11 August 2014 - 07:11 PM, said:

If a Merc Unit adopts the faction of its founder, how do loyalty points accumulate if you
4) do I need to unify all the items (my faction, Unit Faction, Medallion) in the same allegiance to have a bonus

I would say yes

Docta Pain, on 11 August 2014 - 07:11 PM, said:

Do I have to resign from an IS unit and join a Clan unit to use clan mechs?

Can I accumulate loyalty points for my Merc Unit if I am not in the Merc Unit's faction?

Does winning create loyalty points for my Merc Unit? Why is there no forum heading dedicated to CW and Factions and how they work?

Yes, No and and winning what? so far there is nothing to win and no special community warfare queues to win this nothing in. This will all come with later stages of community warfare.

[Belorion]

Voidcrafter, on 11 August 2014 - 11:38 PM, said:

More like a week away as far as I know

Hmmm. 11 + 1 does not eq 19. I blame a long labor filled sleepless night. Carry on.

[Onmyoudo]

I''m sure Russ will tweet about it in a couple months.

[Voidcrafter]

Onmyoudo, on 12 August 2014 - 01:46 AM, said:

I''m sure Russ will tweet about it in a couple months.

Hohoho - good one
Though it's kinda sad that there're people who lost their faith in PGI this badly...
I wonder myself about the same thing the last couple of weeks.

[Sandpit]

Docta Pain, on 11 August 2014 - 07:11 PM, said:

I am rather lost still with regards to CW & factions.

so is PGI....

[Henree]

Voidcrafter, on 11 August 2014 - 11:38 PM, said:

More like a week away as far as I know

2 weeks.