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[UnofficialOperator]

[Alkabides]

This is great stuff ... as a great clan warrior would your genetic material be passed down?

[Y E O N N E]

Help me out here, please, it's late.

Joke about Clanners being test-tube children and thus not having fathers in the conventional sense?

[Asym]

Ah, it's an IS mech event? Where PGI wants you to purchase IS mechs to show in-game transnational volume.... It's all about sales guys; it's just another sales gimmick to push up sales volume inside and outside of the game....

Want to bet the investors or PGI executives are starting to notice a down trend???? Remember, extreme small niche market.....if the whales slow down buying, and several I know have, we'll start to see PGI attempt to make up that difference......

What better way than to have a multi-day event where Clan players, whom many do not own IS mechs cause we can't use them in FP because we can't mix drop decks, are compelled to buy IS mechs and then sell them..... That's all transactional value to PGI......... I own IS mechs (urbie and assassin) but they were free gifts to me form PGI in 2017.....

[Johnathan Tanner]

Asym, on 16 June 2018 - 05:23 AM, said:

Want to bet the investors or PGI executives

PGI has executives?

[Xeno Phalcon]

Asym, on 16 June 2018 - 05:23 AM, said:

Ah, it's an IS mech event? Where PGI wants you to purchase IS mechs to show in-game transnational volume.... It's all about sales guys; it's just another sales gimmick to push up sales volume inside and outside of the game....

Want to bet the investors or PGI executives are starting to notice a down trend???? Remember, extreme small niche market.....if the whales slow down buying, and several I know have, we'll start to see PGI attempt to make up that difference......

What better way than to have a multi-day event where Clan players, whom many do not own IS mechs cause we can't use them in FP because we can't mix drop decks, are compelled to buy IS mechs and then sell them..... That's all transactional value to PGI......... I own IS mechs (urbie and assassin) but they were free gifts to me form PGI in 2017.....

Oh your out of the loop, and the joke. PGI snuck in another event for fathers day called "Dad Warrior Online".

[El Bandito]

Asym, on 16 June 2018 - 05:23 AM, said:

What better way than to have a multi-day event where Clan players, whom many do not own IS mechs cause we can't use them in FP because we can't mix drop decks, are compelled to buy IS mechs and then sell them..... That's all transactional value to PGI......... I own IS mechs (urbie and assassin) but they were free gifts to me form PGI in 2017.....

No one is forcing people to participate in the events. Hell, people who don't care about the event are actually profiting from fighting unskilled mechs with their own fully mastered mechs. Just like all events, PGI is simply rewarding players who wants to participate.

If one has one empty mechbay and a few million C-Bills up front, one can finish these events without losing a single C-Bill, thanks to sales, while gaining hundreds of MC and cockpit items.

Edited by El Bandito, 17 June 2018 - 04:32 AM.

[Toothless]

El Bandito, on 16 June 2018 - 05:31 AM, said:

No one is forcing people to participate in the events. Hell, people who don't care about the event are actually profiting from fighting unskilled mechs with their own fully mastered mechs. Just like all events, PGI is simply rewarding players who wants to participate

^ this. I have all the money, mechbays, and skill points I will ever need for the rest of MWO. I only know theres an event if I come here or someone mentions it in chat. For players who enjoy events and their perks, I say have as many as you can because Id rather see the new or lower level players having a good time than any of the tryhards.

[SFC174]

Toothless, on 16 June 2018 - 05:47 AM, said:

^ this. I have all the money, mechbays, and skill points I will ever need for the rest of MWO. I only know theres an event if I come here or someone mentions it in chat. For players who enjoy events and their perks, I say have as many as you can because Id rather see the new or lower level players having a good time than any of the tryhards.

I can't imagine that many of them are having a very good time doing 100 dmg in their unskilled assault mechs though. I've seen (and killed) more stalkers in the last week than I have in a year. Unfortunately, there have been just as many derp Stalkers on my teams too. My number of games with 4+ players under 100 dmg has definitely gone up since the event started (I had one game with 10 players under 200 dmg....)

[El Bandito]

SFC174, on 16 June 2018 - 07:34 AM, said:

I can't imagine that many of them are having a very good time doing 100 dmg in their unskilled assault mechs though. I've seen (and killed) more stalkers in the last week than I have in a year. Unfortunately, there have been just as many derp Stalkers on my teams too. My number of games with 4+ players under 100 dmg has definitely gone up since the event started (I had one game with 10 players under 200 dmg....)

Bads gonna be bad. I doubt they would have performed any better if there was no such event going on. In the end it usually comes down to someone calling the drop correctly, and/or carrying the team. I have seen crap loads of lurms so I think they at least did the event damage part quickly.

Edited by El Bandito, 16 June 2018 - 07:48 AM.

[MechaBattler]

Is the Clan breeding program a case of selective breeding or gene manipulation? I was always a little curious about that. And I thought people who grow up together from birth are more likely to see the others as siblings, not sexual prospects?

[LordNothing]

MechaBattler, on 16 June 2018 - 10:05 AM, said:

Is the Clan breeding program a case of selective breeding or gene manipulation? I was always a little curious about that. And I thought people who grow up together from birth are more likely to see the others as siblings, not sexual prospects?

i think its selective breeding. only the best warriors in clan society contribute to the gene pool.

[MechaBattler]

LordNothing, on 16 June 2018 - 10:16 AM, said:

i think its selective breeding. only the best warriors in clan society contribute to the gene pool.

Are the others allowed to have children outside of that? That would kinda suck to be told you're not worthy to carry your genes forward.

[Nightbird]

LordNothing, on 16 June 2018 - 10:16 AM, said:

i think its selective breeding. only the best warriors in clan society contribute to the gene pool.

Selective sperm/egg donation to a lab somewhere.

[LordNothing]

MechaBattler, on 16 June 2018 - 10:28 AM, said:

Are the others allowed to have children outside of that? That would kinda suck to be told you're not worthy to carry your genes forward.

they are allowed to screw (it was in one of the books), provide they take their contraceptives, but i think all breeding is done in 'iron woumbs' from pre-selected genertic material. an entire batch of offspring is produced in whats called a sibco, because they are all technically siblings which are placed in the same company, apply clan newspeak and you got sibco.

btw i got most of this reading the data on the holoprojector in mw2 and it has stuck for some reason.

Edited by LordNothing, 16 June 2018 - 02:31 PM.

[LordNothing]

MechaBattler, on 16 June 2018 - 10:28 AM, said:

Are the others allowed to have children outside of that? That would kinda suck to be told you're not worthy to carry your genes forward.

i do believe only the clan warrior caste is trueborn. im not sure if other castes have any breeding restrictions or not. i do know that a scientist or technician can rise up through the ranks and become a warrior, so there should in theory be non-trueborn clan warriors.

Edited by LordNothing, 16 June 2018 - 02:37 PM.

[Xeno Phalcon]

MechaBattler, on 16 June 2018 - 10:05 AM, said:

Is the Clan breeding program a case of selective breeding or gene manipulation? I was always a little curious about that. And I thought people who grow up together from birth are more likely to see the others as siblings, not sexual prospects?

More of the later than the former, Every bloodnamed clanner has their genetic codex constantly updated as their career progresses to its terminus, typically on death its added to pool their name belongs to. I forget all the specific details but the general idea is to weed out the weak and promote the continuation of the strong while mingling them with other strong lines to try to continue creating a genetically superior warrior.

As for sibkin womp-wom , they are all basically clones with 'very' short expectancy raised in a spartan typically ruthless setting where most of them will either die or be reduced to a lower cast, and generally they are all kept infertile as natural birth is seen as a very negative thing in most clans (The actual pregnancy and birth part is outright repulsive to them most of the time), some more than others (IE Wolves tolerated them, but in smoke jaguar you were basically human filth). Its all fairly interesting and one of the curious aspects of lore that MWO cant really carry around and represent - that dosn't mean its not weird however, even in the battletech novels I vaguely recall one inner sphere native essentially reacting to the discovery of what passed as intimacy in sibkos as "ew".

[Asym]

El Bandito, on 16 June 2018 - 05:31 AM, said:

No one is forcing people to participate in the events. Hell, people who don't care about the event are actually profiting from fighting unskilled mechs with their own fully mastered mechs. Just like all events, PGI is simply rewarding players who wants to participate.

If one has one empty mechbay and a few million C-Bills up front, one can finish these events without losing a single C-Bill, while gaining hundreds of MC and cockpit items.

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Edited by Tina Benoit, 20 June 2018 - 03:08 PM.
starting fights/communicating for the purpose of causing unrest

[El Bandito]

Asym, on 16 June 2018 - 07:28 PM, said:

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Edited by Tina Benoit, 20 June 2018 - 03:09 PM.
in response to the redacted post above

[Asym]

Actually El, there's a lot more going on with these posts than you realize.... A great many F2P's that have forums are being read by the academic world and used for "game culture and game population data".

Because they are Free to Play... F2P infers that there is a greater mix and range of "people - cultural input" and what that does in the games success or failure.

Many F2P games are used as business models to study. Especially, in the Innovation side of entrepreneurial market development (micro-transactions outside of games). There are several great papers written about many of the hot games we see written about weekly. There are several peer reviewed publications about F2P impact in the expansion of the use of games in education, product development and speeding up iterative product development...

My reactions to this thread is as a MW customer Lad.... Someone, whom PGI wants to coerce into spending time and money in the game. I'm telling them that my interest level for this event is low.....and most importantly, why. I wasn't rude or insulting? Now, your reaction is....well, needs some work.

Sorry, I frustrate you but, it's a F2P and I'm an equal customer with an equally important voice..... I stay for a great many reasons and I will remain till they close the servers...

Let's try to be civil though. (although the students think you're hilarious !!!!)