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[William Thor]

This would be epic!

FactorlanP, on 23 June 2012 - 08:42 PM, said:

Agreed... Maybe the Devs need to choose a few hundred players to fill the gap... Pick me! Picki me!

Add in an NDA for surprise effect and enjoy the resulting carnage.

[Evedro Solais]

Cik, on 23 June 2012 - 08:08 PM, said:

LANCE

Hahahahaha, I get it.

[Reported for Inappropriate Name]

yes let's all have a memorable event so I can yet again hear about it the next day and regret going to bed early for the rest of my life

[Jekrump]

William Thor, on 23 June 2012 - 08:53 PM, said:

This would be epic!



Add in an NDA for surprise effect and enjoy the resulting carnage.

But like I said, allowing people to switch to the clans in the middle of the year would be like adding a third faction to Wow, and that third faction is WAY BETTER than anyone else. It would shatter quite a few units, if not all of them. I am seriously hoping for the PVE mode I mentioned before. Everyone stays in their units, and we all slowly acquire clan tech through a scrap system or through some other system. I would be extremely upset if they just let select players switch. I might be the minority, but I would love to have some battles where the enemies have advantages and we need to work as a team more so than usual.

[KailKromier]

i could just see the confusion
Team A: "WHAT?!..MORE!...Those arent ours....are they yours?!
Team B: "Not ours either...who the...aww HELL CLANNERS!!!!!

*ERPPC to the face*

[OfficerTaco]

Paul said we still weren't getting our frickin madcat months ago, he would show up in a pink one, for sure.

[Abagnatius]

MegaBusta, on 23 June 2012 - 08:51 PM, said:

Star.

STAR of Clan 'mechs.

Definitely sounds cool though, but yeah, without outside help there's so few devs a miniscule portion of the population would get to experience it.

Multiboxing (or whatever that's called)! One dev could drive 3 Mechs simultaneously!

[IronEricP]

Alistair Steiner, on 23 June 2012 - 08:50 PM, said:

YES! Like in the novels. Switching between Catapult and Marauder (if they can do that) when facing a Mad Cat (I'm Inner Sphere, deal with it), and such. Eventually, when there's enough intel on the invaders, the Inner Sphere names can disseminate throughout us IS players. Hmm, it would be neat to see Clan-specific (as in Wolf, Jade Falcon, Ghost Bear, Smoke Jaguar, etc) 'Mechs in areas where they'd be attacking. The Dire Wolf/Daishi more prominent in the Draconis Combine, for example, since they're the ones who named it. House Steiner would get hit more with 'Mechs like the Loki and Thor (Hellbringer and Summoner), since Victor fought them on Trellwan.

Just my thought on making things closer to canon, because I'm weird that way.

YES YES YES!!!
Of course, they'd have to do something else with the readout unless the unseen really do make it in But I really do hope the clans are introduced as PvE first, with or without party crashing, maybe for at least two months. I know folks are eager for them but there is no way to make the invasion feel right in PvP (besides, unfair much?). We need to at least have the first couple of waves, maybe make them available starting when Ulric become Ilkhan and resumes the invasion, that's when frontline IS units began fielding large amounts of lvl 2 tech.

[ScientificMethod]

This would make me so happy, at least once I recovered from the rage of getting cored by paul's madcat

[NoFace]

Devs can use some best Lone Wolfs players under NDA for such event.
In the middle of my usual gameday:
"-What do you mean by 'I got strange readings' ?
-*** was that??
-Oh, crap, that was <add some clan mech here>!!!"

Something like that would be very glorious event

[Rimestorm]

Dev controlled clan mechs would indeed be awesome especially as an introduction to the clans when they hit.
If clans do make it as player controlled chassis' one way they could initially limit the volume of players dropping their house/merc corp for clans. Could be to make people apply to own any clan chassis. Much like with closed beta. And slowly increase the amount of people able to join and eventually let anyone join clans/own clan mechs.
But Im sure it would be pretty polarizing initally for players though.

[Cerlin]

Phasics, on 23 June 2012 - 07:58 PM, said:

Just a wistful lil idea that when they decide to start introducing clan mechs for the week prior the devs crash people's games hot dropping in with a lance of clan mechs to try and kill everyone .

No dev post no warning just a SURPRISE Timberwolf lance to the face , so the game really does get invaded by clan mechs before we actually get to buy and use them.

Sounds fun. IT may be fun if they got a limited amount of players to help them as well. A couple Stars of clan mechs in random battles.

[Granimal]

It sounds like an awsome idea.And I agreee with the ones who say there are not enough devs but as others have said recruit from some of the best players stat wise and put them under nda.

[Agent KI7KO]

I'm rather afraid of players getting their hands on clan tech, but this is a wonderful idea. Have one or two Lances drop down midway into the match and annihilate everyone else.

...and that iconic moment where i target a Timberwolf and my targetting computer keeps confusing it between a Marauder (MAD) and a Catapult (CAT) alternating between MAD and CAT.

[Necrodemus]

Yes!
All of my experience with Devs "invading" a game have been great ever since Asheron's Call.

[Damocles 1]

you know what, that would be totally epic
it would be nice to have actual events occur in game and a set progression of the canon

[VK4502B]

Cool idea.
Work on it devs!

[Reported for Inappropriate Name]

Well either way, I'll be sure to stalk myself some dumpster babies

[Hykelion]

If this happened, it'd be great. Really capture the feel that Inner Sphere pilots should have when they see the Clans for the first time. Maybe only the Devs at first during the initial release just to represent the actions in 3049, then the NDA-clad clan invaders are selected and deployed midway through 3050 as the clans hit the point where they and their tech can be gradually merged with the public side of things.

[Devayner]

I like the idea as well would be a blast , but i can hear it now, a boat load of people on the forums crying cos they were not picked to play the clan.All buthurt and screaming foul.

meh that might be fun to watch as well .do it