Paladin Brewer, on 04 February 2012 - 04:19 AM, said:
Because from what I read there is no guarantee you will be able to drop together by just joining the same faction, as there will be no custom faction units at launch. Nor do you have any control over ranks, etc. I rather go merc and just take HK contracts until they decide that faction units are *gasp* actually important to the battletech universe.
Yeah if you can't guarantee you'll play together that of course is a very big issue.