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[Lily from animove]

Dark Wooki33 IIC, on 08 May 2017 - 07:52 AM, said:

I find this offensive.

are your pride chromosomes triggered now?

[Dark Wooki33 IIC]

Lily from animove, on 08 May 2017 - 08:06 AM, said:

are your pride chromosomes triggered now?

Y should they? You trolled and i trolled back.
Everyone know thats it is the mercs, that are running the smoke jag/liao/marik show.

[nehebkau]

The topics discussed on this forum make me think that the forums are stuck in some type of groundhog day loop -- and have been for the past 3 years.

[Kdogg788]

Very true. I can skip reading here for a month and I won't miss anything.

-k

[A Shoddy Rental Mech]

nehebkau, on 08 May 2017 - 08:11 AM, said:

The topics discussed on this forum make me think that the forums are stuck in some type of groundhog day loop -- and have been for the past 3 years.

Not entirely fair.

Phase 3 mercs piled in Jade Falcon.

4.1 They piled in Smoke Jag.

That's change, right ?

[Marquis De Lafayette]

The Nerf Bat, on 08 May 2017 - 08:18 AM, said:

Not entirely fair.

Phase 3 mercs piled in Jade Falcon.

4.1 They piled in Smoke Jag.

That's change, right ?

Only difference is "exactly, why they did it". In phase 3 (with all the buckets) they took -50% contracts to ride the express, stomp-train to terra. In 4.1, with only 2 buckets they can take the +10% contract, ride the slower, but still (most-of-the-time) win-train to no where in particular...but at least get paid lots of c-bills (and some MC for taking planets) to do it.

[Bud Crue]

nehebkau, on 08 May 2017 - 08:11 AM, said:

The topics discussed on this forum make me think that the forums are stuck in some type of groundhog day loop -- and have been for the past 3 years.

Yeah, the good ole days of Wolf loyalists filling the forums after Tuk with stories of their prowess and dominanting play, followed by MS players saying "um excuse me?".

This time it'll be smoke jags and other merc units.

A change of epoch defining proportions right there.

[PhoenixFire55]

Lily from animove, on 08 May 2017 - 06:33 AM, said:

are you saying those dust kittens have the lowest population of the clanners yet made like 50% of the points on clanside? Those kirrens must be total No lifers and play all the time to even get this done.

Quality over quantity.

[Tordin]

GotShotALot, on 08 May 2017 - 07:52 AM, said:

Yes the 'Loyalist' numbers are roughly in alignment with 'BT Lore/previous game' faction popularity among fans. I would have expected a teeny bit more Marik from fanbase but not much. Smoke Jags get smoked (annihilated) in lore so no surprise there.

Mercs mostly pile in where the advantage is highest and the chance of fighting another high-ranked merc unit is lowest. No surprise there either. Funnily enough that's exactly why Clans hate mercs and would never employ them.

Neither FRR had much love for mercs either due to reasons.. But against clans you just have to hire em.

[Xetelian]

I liked it better when we could sign up for a faction, earn rep for that faction. It appears you now need a unit and if you aren't loyalist you only get merc rep points.


Unless I'm missing something.

[A Shoddy Rental Mech]

Xetelian, on 08 May 2017 - 08:42 AM, said:

I liked it better when we could sign up for a faction, earn rep for that faction. It appears you now need a unit and if you aren't loyalist you only get merc rep points.


Unless I'm missing something.

Mercs have their own reward tree, thereby making mercs their own faction.

[Templar Dane]

Dark Wooki33 IIC, on 08 May 2017 - 08:10 AM, said:

Everyone know thats it is the mercs, that are running the smoke jag/liao/marik show.

Yep.

Last week smoke jag was the only clan with a payout bonus, and when the event started marik/liao were super behind on points in the leaderboard so joining either one of those was the path of least resistance to get on those leaderboards.

[ScrapIron Prime]

Dahoota, on 08 May 2017 - 07:12 AM, said:

Sort of side note, did any mercs even fight for the Clans in the lore? That's always bugged me a bit...

Not as Mercenaries per se. But the clans would allow talented mechwarriors who had been captured in honorable battle fight for them as Bondsmen. So anyone flipping IS to Clan could justify it that way if they cared.

Edited by ScrapIron Prime, 08 May 2017 - 10:21 AM.

[Templar Dane]

ThoseWhoFearTomorrow, on 08 May 2017 - 07:54 AM, said:

Lol we have the highest population and the lowest score.

My friend and I did a tour of all factions last year. The last clan we did was wolf and man oh man were there some potatoes there. Took us ages to get rank 10, and we put clan wolf down as THE worst faction anyone could join.

That is.........until we joined steiner. MY GOD.

[SmokedJag]

Xetelian, on 08 May 2017 - 08:42 AM, said:

I liked it better when we could sign up for a faction, earn rep for that faction. It appears you now need a unit and if you aren't loyalist you only get merc rep points.


Unless I'm missing something.

You can earn Loyalist points with or without a unit. I didn't start a one-man unit for the event and I'm up several ranks so far.

[nehebkau]

Templar Dane, on 08 May 2017 - 10:32 AM, said:

My friend and I did a tour of all factions last year. The last clan we did was wolf and man oh man were there some potatoes there. Took us ages to get rank 10, and we put clan wolf down as THE worst faction anyone could join.

That is.........until we joined steiner. MY GOD.

You haven't been to Davion yet?

[MechaBattler]

When was the last time PGI did anything for the loyalist units? It's all about the comp scene or whales.

[Templar Dane]

nehebkau, on 09 May 2017 - 11:34 AM, said:

You haven't been to Davion yet?

We did a circuit, we skipped steiner because it had inflated numbers so we did all the houses except it, then clans and ended with steiner before doing merc. We didn't make it very far and ended the contract out of frustration.

Though as of december we stopped playing altogether after invasion changed to quickplay. Not sure how long we'll last this time because we get bored of quickplay over and over and over again. 'Siege' was the most fun this game has to offer and now you rarely see it.

MechaBattler, on 09 May 2017 - 11:42 AM, said:

When was the last time PGI did anything for the loyalist units? It's all about the comp scene or whales.

They did do something fairly recently. They tore out the 50% LP bonus for being a loyalist.

That counts, right?

[MechaBattler]

Remind me again what loyalty points are for again?

[Templar Dane]

MechaBattler, on 09 May 2017 - 11:52 AM, said:

Remind me again what loyalty points are for again?

They changed the name of it a while back to 'reputation points', formerly 'loyalty points'.........which grant higher ranks which give you GXP/cbills/mechbays/MC...........