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[I Make My Living Doing Gods Work]

Dionnsai, on 02 February 2020 - 05:52 AM, said:

I heard a rumor this thread was dead, so I performed some necromancy.



Boogity Boogity

Boo the thread has been lifted to epic status as the BEST PILOT in CSPS has arrived. Let me know who that is

[Lotspeech]

Rumor has it if you go to the MS Teamspeak and sit really still, and be very quiet. You can still hear the last screams of a raging Kwea

[Johnathan Tanner]

Lotspeech, on 09 February 2021 - 12:06 PM, said:

Rumor has it if you go to the MS Teamspeak and sit really still, and be very quiet. You can still hear the last screams of a raging Kwea

Best post 2021. Not that the bar is very high anymore.

[John Bronco]

Actually you can just play the game to hear Kwea screaming again, if that's what you're into.

[B L O O D W I T C H]

BlaizerP, on 10 February 2021 - 07:36 AM, said:

Actually you can just play the game to hear Kwea screaming again, if that's what you're into.

I've had him in tier 3.. ultra rage.

add: to be fair, i had him in a couple of games.
just one game in which our team was exceptionally braindead he absolutely flipped his ****, was pretty funny tho.

Edited by B L O O D W I T C H, 10 February 2021 - 07:49 AM.

[Grus]

Rumor has it, this was brought back from the dead so Kwea could feel some sort of validation...

[Lionsroar]

Rumor has it that MS has crabs

[Commander A9]

Rumor has it MercStar's Crabs have a way to revive long dormant pilots...

[xxREVxx]

Rumor has it Mercstar influenced bringing back 12-man drops to quick play.

[Crockdaddy]

Rumor has it Mercstar has purchased the MWO license and is working with those Star Citizen guys to integrate MWO Faction Play.

[Commander A9]

Rumor has it MercStar 12-mans were the reason PGI removed the ability to drop in 12-man groups in Quickplay.

[xxREVxx]

It was right after the Christmas Eve MS Crabs (2020 or was it 2019?) they shut the door on 12 mans.

[simon1812]

Mercstar?

[Kwea]

B L O O D W I T C H, on 10 February 2021 - 07:42 AM, said:

I've had him in tier 3.. ultra rage.

add: to be fair, i had him in a couple of games.
just one game in which our team was exceptionally braindead he absolutely flipped his ****, was pretty funny tho.

Yeah, I think it is too. Tier 3, huh? Gotta love resets.

I don't even remember when I last played this game, but if you want I can always download some old videos and you can hear me yell there.

[VulkanNo1]

Well somwhere down the pipe line i heard Mercstar infiltrated the Comstar to hid their secret obsession with the forgotton clan. following after them like a predator. that's why our mechs can't spot them, their using unknow variants of mechs that don't register.

Last i heard they had gotton to the out skirts of turian space and where investigating a hidden world. set dark but some unknown mystery. but that's all hear-say. what their really after is a tourist cult in turian space called TFSOFPC. ( The Free States Of The Free People's Confederation )

[Depressing-Fire]

MercStar fired me for not eating babies.

[Grus]

This thread has been going on for over a decade...

Rumor has it MS petitioned Snickers to have the veins on their candy bars to be bigger...

[Balrogos]

what is even mercstar?

[WalterChronic]

Mercstar killed Faction Play

[Void Angel]

simon1812, on 09 April 2023 - 08:57 AM, said:

Mercstar?

Balrogos, on 25 July 2025 - 06:19 PM, said:

what is even mercstar?

WalterChronic, on 27 July 2025 - 09:01 AM, said:

Mercstar killed Faction Play

Partly true. It's better to say that their weaponization of aspects of Faction Play's metagame served to accelerate Faction Warfare's demise.

The game was designed so that every guild would be competing for planetary control during faction play battles. The intent was that each guild would have its own leadership and gain rewards separately - but the Mercstar Alliance saw other possibilities. They realized that if they combined multiple, independent guilds under one in-game "Mercenary Company," they'd have a massive logistical advantage in taking planets (holding worlds awarded MC at the time.) Essentially, all the sub-guilds ran their own affairs, had their own guild ranks and leaders, etc - but since they were all under the same in-game "unit," whatever front they decided to fight on would be absolutely swarmed with Mercstar pilots.

Some of them were pretty good; some of them were mediocre, but there were a ton of them, at all hours of the day and night. So while your unit might contest Planet Battleground for part of the day, players often choose guilds whose members play when they themselves are available (you wouldn't join a guild that focuses on North America prime time if you worked those hours, for example.) That meant that there was a logistical challenge involved in just getting enough players in opposition to Mercstar, before you even worried about winning matches. And when PGI didn't make any changes to stop it, Mercstar just gleefully kept on growing. Soon, Mercstar became the de facto majority on any front they picked to fight on, and people just got tired of wrestling with a giant sack of raccoons all pretending to be one person.

There's more to the decline of Faction Warfare than just Mercstar - if any of their members are around, they'll cheerfully take credit for all of it, but they were a symptom, not the disease. Like with warts. The primary problem was that the strategic over-game aspect of Faction Warfare - and the rewards offered for playing - weren't enough to offset the massively increased coordination and effort requirements, and despite the initial rounds being a ton of fun, interest and participation dwindled. Mercstar accelerated that process, but they didn't cause it.

However, the amount of frustration and resentment their deliberate bad-faith engagement with Faction Warfare caused can be clearly seen by this obviously self-congratulatory troll thread garnering 80 pages.

Edited by Void Angel, 11 August 2025 - 03:09 PM.