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[mogs01gt]

It would help the community to simply ban players like the OP....

[Metus regem]

Felio, on 17 May 2016 - 01:08 PM, said:

Just ask support@mwomercs.com for a refund. They'll probably give it to you.

And come on, people. This isn't as hard a mistake to make as you all are making it sound. All the information should be very clear on the sales page. The onus is not on us to research sarna.

The page does not say battlemech. It does not say omnimech. It simply says 'mech. The only thing he was supposed to notice was that the hardpoints are called "hardpoints," not "omnipod hardpoints."

I would counter with "Emptor esse scientissimo" or "Buyer be knowledgeable".

You wouldn't go out and buy a car with out doing any research correct? Or a new gaming system (PC/Xbox/Wii U/PS4) with out doing a little home work?

I wouldn't expect anyone to have Bishop's level of knowledge or more before buying mechs, but even just putting in "Kodiak Battletech" in google, the first thing that pops up is the Sarna page, and I'm sorry but 5 minutes of reading just one web page would've told him it's a battle mech and not an omni mech. Rather than doing a little home work, the OP comes to the fourms and rages like a toddler about their own inability to do a little leg work before plunking down any cash on a digital good, that in the end you do not own, you are merely renting so long as the servers are alive or PGI decides you are not fit to play their game.

[Mavairo]

Metus regem, on 18 May 2016 - 07:28 AM, said:

I would counter with "Emptor esse scientissimo" or "Buyer be knowledgeable".

You wouldn't go out and buy a car with out doing any research correct? Or a new gaming system (PC/Xbox/Wii U/PS4) with out doing a little home work?

I wouldn't expect anyone to have Bishop's level of knowledge or more before buying mechs, but even just putting in "Kodiak Battletech" in google, the first thing that pops up is the Sarna page, and I'm sorry but 5 minutes of reading just one web page would've told him it's a battle mech and not an omni mech. Rather than doing a little home work, the OP comes to the fourms and rages like a toddler about their own inability to do a little leg work before plunking down any cash on a digital good, that in the end you do not own, you are merely renting so long as the servers are alive or PGI decides you are not fit to play their game.

pretty much this.
If you're willing to shell real money out for Mechs...a little research into them is probably not a bad thing.
I research all mechs I've bought on Sarna first. Just to get an idea what I was looking at, while looking at their ad on the store.

[Mystere]

ToMang07, on 17 May 2016 - 12:40 PM, said:

The lore is dumb, and they listed it as a clan mech. So I guess it should have been made a lot more clear. It's a huge waste of money, regardless.

Oh brother!

[Scout Derek]

mogs01gt, on 18 May 2016 - 07:16 AM, said:

It would help the community to simply ban players like the OP....

as much as I would like to, he's too new around these parts. Not to mention it's a misguided rant.

[DONTOR]

I'm laughing so hard right now (at work), ahhh this community is great, I don't care what anyone says lol.

[GreenHell]

Battlemechs are NOT exclusive to the Inner Sphere
and
Omnimechs are NOT exclusive to the Clans

IS gets Omnimechs too (3060's).
Clan always had Both.

Do your homework guys, this is simple stuff.
Here's a hint too; wanna know something about a mech before it comes out?
sarna.net/wiki/name-of-mech-goes-here <--------
E-Z-P-Z

[Gigashot]

Wait did OP assume all Clan mechs were Omnimechs and buy blindly based on said assumption?

[Dee Eight]

Gigashot, on 18 May 2016 - 12:08 PM, said:

Wait did OP assume all Clan mechs were Omnimechs and buy blindly based on said assumption?

yes

[Death Proof]

How is this thread even real?

[WarHippy]

Scout Derek, on 18 May 2016 - 09:32 AM, said:

as much as I would like to, he's too new around these parts. Not to mention it's a misguided rant.

Misguided I can agree with, but too new?
OP
Member Since 18 Aug 2013...
One would think that after nearly 3 years in this game he would have picked up on how things work.

[Satan n stuff]

Vox Scorpus, on 17 May 2016 - 01:23 PM, said:

Even if you don't like the lore, read the lore, or played TT, the information about the Kodiak clearly stated that it is a Clan IIC. And if you've read into the game at all (be it online or whatever), you should know what that means. It's troubling isn't it that someone will not do any research at all before putting real money down on something (this could apply to anything). It's called shiny new syndrome (or it should be). Look it's shiny, and it's new so it must be great - lets buy it! Personally I've run the 3 variants I have (changed a few things of course) and I think they're great!

It's actually not a IIC, it's a Clan original design. IICs are Star League battlemechs upgraded with Clan tech.

[MechWarrior849305]

Guess he wanted to install 8xC-LRM20... and he couldn't. Because it has IS HARDPOINTS!

Edited by MechWarrior849305, 20 May 2016 - 05:18 AM.

[TKSax]

Doctor Dinosaur, on 18 May 2016 - 12:10 AM, said:

Out of curiosity: Beside the armor distribution, what's so wrong about that build? (Sure, I would try to use pulse lasers, but it's not SO bad, is it?)

Using Regular Clan AC10, You can do that build with a CUAC20 or CLBX20 , 4 CSRM6-A , 2 CERMed or 2 CFLamers and be way more effective that that mish mash of a build

[Scout Derek]

WarHippy, on 18 May 2016 - 12:42 PM, said:

Misguided I can agree with, but too new?
OP
Member Since 18 Aug 2013...
One would think that after nearly 3 years in this game he would have picked up on how things work.

New as in to posting to the forums recently.

The only posts he's had are about this recently. Other post's he's had date back to late 2014. He doesn't get out very often here, rather, to log in that is.

[RussianWolf]

Bishop Steiner, on 17 May 2016 - 02:11 PM, said:

I guess the 3 KGCs I've dipped in butter so far didn't get your memo.....

And the half dozen carebears I've killed in my Maulers????????

[RussianWolf]

Critical Rocket, on 17 May 2016 - 02:00 PM, said:

It's situations like this that maybe PGI should have the web team post some background information on the tech, universe, basic history of the universe and battlemech info for the existing and upcoming units. I know for many here it's a simple case of checking sarna or flipping through a TRO but others who don't care about the Battletech setting and only want 'mechs need a better reference point here on the site. I'm not suggesting new art or special graphics, just an information page for newer players or exisitng players who don't know the universe all that well to quickly be able to see at a glance.

At one point they did. They had descriptions, albeit brief ones, of each mech chassis on the website. Then they stopped updating them. Then they finally got called to task on it and updated the page to include all the chassis by simply including a picture and name. That's it, no information other than weight class.

Just another example of PGI cutting corners on the really easy stuff.

I remember when each new mech had a video as art of the sales pitch. Those days are gone too.

PGI stopped trying. So I stopped buying.

[MrJeffers]

RussianWolf, on 20 May 2016 - 07:53 AM, said:

At one point they did. They had descriptions, albeit brief ones, of each mech chassis on the website. Then they stopped updating them. Then they finally got called to task on it and updated the page to include all the chassis by simply including a picture and name. That's it, no information other than weight class.

Just another example of PGI cutting corners on the really easy stuff.

I remember when each new mech had a video as art of the sales pitch. Those days are gone too.

PGI stopped trying. So I stopped buying.

And they still do have the information and descriptions:
http://mwomercs.com/...-and-blueprint/
https://mwomercs.com/kodiak

Both links above show this is a Battlemech with Hardpoints and not OmniPods. It's even called a battlemech in the 2nd sentence of the lore link

Unlike this which clearly states
OMNIPOD HARDPOINTS

https://mwomercs.com/night-gyr

Edited by MrJeffers, 20 May 2016 - 08:55 AM.

[Joshua McEvedy]

ToMang07, on 17 May 2016 - 12:32 PM, said:

As long as we waited, and as much as we paid, this is BS. I mean come on, seriously?

No, the Kodiak is a Clan totem battlemech and NOT an Omnimech. Anyone who bothers to learn the lore should know this.

[Bishop Steiner]

RussianWolf, on 20 May 2016 - 07:48 AM, said:

And the half dozen carebears I've killed in my Maulers????????

well dats a different story......