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A series of weekend events where:
1. An Inner Sphere capital planet is invaded by a singular Clan.
eg. Luthien is attacked by Clan Smoke Jaguar and defended by House Kurita.
2. Simultaneously a Trial of Refusal is fought on Strana Mechty, the Clan political homeworld.
2. Every player in the game wishing to participate must choose between the attacking Clan or the defending Inner Sphere House. For the period of the event no other planets or Factions are active (meaning everyone playing CW will be divided between the active Clan/House and only 2 planets, hopefully resulting in short queue times).
3. Mercenary and Loyalist Units register their 1st and 2nd choice for each planet in advance to allow balancing of numbers by PGI
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At present the community has no idea when the current phase of Community Warfare will make way for the next, however I came upon an idea a few nights ago when looking at the Faction map.
I was trying to reconcile the state of the current map against what I know of Lore, the loss at Tukayyid by forces that could be construed as ComStar mercenaries in the previous Phase and what the Clans reactions would have been if the Inner Sphere Houses had refuted the deal struck by ComStar.
In Lore the battle of Tukayyid was a proxi fought over possession of Terra, the "Bargain" being struck by Precentor Martial Focht with ilKhan Ulric Kerensky. Again in Lore, the ComGuard won the battle, saved Terra and the Clans agreed to abide by a 15 year truce to attack no further "South" than a line extending "East" and "West" of Tukayyid.
In MWO the Clans WON the battle, so I would imagine the next step would have been for the Clans to fight each other to decide who would become the ilClan; the Clan to mold the new Star League in their image and decide the fate of mankind. I imagine the Clan leadership, the Khans, would have converged on Tukayyid to accept the surrender of Terra by ComStar and begin bidding for the battle to decide who would be ilClan.
Now, to me, the Lore based explanation for the continued fighting (beyond the next Phase of CW not being ready
) can be explained by the Inner Sphere houses refusing to accept the deal brokered by ComStar. The Clans would then have continued on their campaign of conquest, subdueing each House one planet at a time.So the question then becomes; how do you finish this phase, while both acknowledging and explaining the overwhelming success of the Clans over the Inner Sphere Houses?
My idea is to have each of the House capitals come under attack one after another, while simultaneously have the Inner Sphere attack Strana Mechty. This can be explained as a multi-national task force sent out to find the homeworlds of the Clans and in true Stackpole style launching Trials of Refusal as the capital worlds come under attack.
Each world would come under attack one at a time and for the duration of the invasion every player would be either Clan or that Inner Sphere House. So for example Luthien is first to be attacked and by the Smoke Jaguars; each player wishing to play in the event must choose a side, House Kurita (defence) or Smoke Jaguar (attack).
While this capital is under attack Strana Mechty is open for assault and defence by the same Factions, representing the Trials fought to deny the legitimacy of the invasion and giving the IS House a chance to end the attack on their capital by winning on Strana Mechty. So the House may lose on their capital but gain a draw by winning on Strana Mechty, forcing the Clan to withdraw from their capital world.
This could be run over the course of six weekends but the tricky thing would be balancing numbers to ensure each side was close to parity. Lone Wolves (non unit affiliated players) would be free to choose their side for each Faction, with PGI monitoring numbers but units would need to pre register to keep it close to even.
As we know a large group of players from a single unit can influence a battle by virtue of being in communication with each other, some units more than others. So I believe a little forward planning would be required, perhaps in the form of an email to the leadership asking each unit for a 1st and 2nd choice on each of the planets.
For example, the Praetorian Legion may choose to be;
Battle of Luthien: 1st Smoke Jaguar, 2nd House Kurita
Battle of New Avalon: 1st House Davion, 2nd Clan Wolf
and so on until each unit has given their options for each battle. It would then be up to PGI to disperse the units into each Faction to keep the numbers as close as possible. I realise there is a huge deviation from the number of players in a unit to the number of ACTIVE players but that would be down to the unit motivating their members to participate.
To encourage participation by the playerbase as a whole PGI could offer MC, CBill and the usual cockpit trinkets. For example;
Successful capture OR defence of a capital - 1 million CBills per player, 300MC and a victory banner?
Victory on Strana Mechty - as above.
This would obviously be upto PGI and what they feel is appropriate and how generous they want to be
So what does everyone think? Would this interest you and keep in the spirit of BattleTech?
Edited by xX PUG Xx, 11 October 2015 - 11:09 AM.
