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[BMRX]

Hey all! I'm new, just found MWO \after weeks of searching for a mech like MMO.

I could not believe it when I first saw this, a mechwarrior MMO is something that I've only ever dreamed of...

I plan on throwing my money at this game as soon as I possibly can.

Anyways, it seems that the community here is rather active and bustling with activity! How come this game is not more well known? It took me a fair good amount of looking to find it and it wasn't even what I was expecting.. I was expecting to play Age of Armor (though for some reason it seems that they are shutting down) MWO looks great and this greatly exceeds my expectations!

Aaah I need payday! This game must be played.... Here's hoping I can get the legendary pack.

[Scorpioneldar]

glad to see a new person in the comunity happy to have you kick up your feet make yourself at home and if you want to catch up on what is going on in verse reed the news flash things
above all have fun and remember even though it seems like it at first bigger is not better

[Kotsuno]

Welcome to the crew! The community is indeed very active and also one of the more civil and supportive online groups...so long as you don't mention clans, legging and pony.

With that said, the publicity of the game is one that is necessarily low key, but that isn't always a bad thing. Many of the diehard battletech fans are already here and many other aquaintances to the franchise will be trickling in the very same way you have. So here's to us! - those who support the game, its community, and are probably planning to be dug in for the long haul:)

[BMRX]

Kotsuno, on 21 August 2012 - 12:53 AM, said:

Welcome to the crew! The community is indeed very active and also one of the more civil and supportive online groups...so long as you don't mention clans, legging and pony.

With that said, the publicity of the game is one that is necessarily low key, but that isn't always a bad thing. Many of the diehard battletech fans are already here and many other aquaintances to the franchise will be trickling in the very same way you have. So here's to us! - those who support the game, its community, and are probably planning to be dug in for the long haul:)

I'm ashamed to say that my battletech knowledge is not as great as I'd like... I only ever played a few of the mechwarrior games and even so I was very young. I'll have to look into getting my hands on them again.

Thanks for the kind welcome! I do plan to be here for the long haul this is just something that I cannot turn up.

[Kotsuno]

http://bg.battletech...verseGuide.pdf.

Check that out for some lore and background:)

[BMRX]

That's awesome! I might get that printed, thank you Kotsuno!

[Nash]

BMRX, on 21 August 2012 - 12:56 AM, said:

I'm ashamed to say that my battletech knowledge is not as great as I'd like... I only ever played a few of the mechwarrior games and even so I was very young. I'll have to look into getting my hands on them again.

Thanks for the kind welcome! I do plan to be here for the long haul this is just something that I cannot turn up.

heyha BMRX welcome at MWO and don't worry about your knowledge. Not everyone is a geek with the background and so on. Several battletech fans are only addicted to the game because the atmosphere and stuff feels good or because of other reasons. As long as the game is enjoyable for you it's all you need.

[FieserNiesel]

for further fluff:

http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Main_Page

[GnawTsatyr]

Go Legendary. It's worth it to have a mech in every weight class that gets founder bonus as far as I'm concerned.

Btw, it's not MMO. It's PvP. But I hope you enjoy it all the same.

[BMRX]

GnawTsatyr, on 21 August 2012 - 02:05 AM, said:

Go Legendary. It's worth it to have a mech in every weight class that gets founder bonus as far as I'm concerned.

Btw, it's not MMO. It's PvP. But I hope you enjoy it all the same.

So you're saying its not a game where a large amount of people play online and kill each other?

But yes I plan on going legendary if I can, it all depends on how badly I want to pay for things like food and running water... We'll see.

[Dymitry]

Welcome, I hope you like UrbanMech too!

[LoscC3nturion]

This wil be MMO once com warfare is released november time. That said nice to see you on the forums mate.

[Jeff K Notagoon]

BMRX, on 21 August 2012 - 02:06 AM, said:

So you're saying its not a game where a large amount of people play online and kill each other?

Yes that is what he is saying. Right now the game is only 8v8 and it's planned to have up to 12v12. Which is far from "MMO" numbers.

[Bansheedragon75]

First off let me say welcome to MWO, always nice to see a new face here.
The community is indeed very friendly here as opposed to many other online gaming forums.

You seem like, and I hope you are, a person who are willing and able to listen to others when they give you some advice.
I have some friendly advice I would like to offer you and hope you will listen to it.


If you buy a founders pack, you will also get access to the current CLOSED BETA.

If you consider buying a founders pack, I recommend you take the time to read some of the Information on the packs and make an informed decision, and not just buy blindly to get into beta.

This is a REAL beta and not a preview of how the game will be when released.
DO NOT expect the game to be feature complete, bug free and expect performance issues.

Many have blindly bought the founders pack only for the beta access thinking they will see a "pre-release Demo" and not an actual beta, and get so disappointed they come to the forums and rage over how this game is buggy and whatnot and make blatant uninformed statements about how the game will fail.

All feedback is welcome, both positive and negative, and you will get far better responses if you are constructive with your feedback, and not post threads that just boils down to "This game sux", or you will get the community telling you "Its Beta".

Before you post feedback, take the time to read the stickies(Pinned) and other information around the forums, as in all likelihood the things you want to bring up has been explained already.

Hope you will take this advice in the spirit it is offered, and that you find it helpful.

Edited by Dragonlord, 21 August 2012 - 07:20 AM.

[BMRX]

Jeff K Notagoon, on 21 August 2012 - 05:20 AM, said:

Yes that is what he is saying. Right now the game is only 8v8 and it's planned to have up to 12v12. Which is far from "MMO" numbers.

Personally, and this is just personal opinion... From the "MMO's" that I've enjoyed playing those numbers that you just dropped define an MMO. It might not be "Massively Multiplayer" but it's still my way of looking at it. Those amounts of people against each other is perfect for me. (If you have ever played blacklight retribution, you know what I mean)

Dragonlord, on 21 August 2012 - 07:18 AM, said:

First off let me say welcome to MWO, always nice to see a new face here.
The community is indeed very friendly here as opposed to many other online gaming forums.

You seem like, and I hope you are, a person who are willing and able to listen to others when they give you some advice.
I have some friendly advice I would like to offer you and hope you will listen to it.

Usually it's smart to listen to other members I find.

Dragonlord, on 21 August 2012 - 07:18 AM, said:

If you buy a founders pack, you will also get access to the current CLOSED BETA.

If you consider buying a founders pack, I recommend you take the time to read some of the Information on the packs and make an informed decision, and not just buy blindly to get into beta.

Yes I already understand this, and did take the time to fully read up on a lot of things before posting.

Dragonlord, on 21 August 2012 - 07:18 AM, said:

This is a REAL beta and not a preview of how the game will be when released.
DO NOT expect the game to be feature complete, bug free and expect performance issues.

Yes I realize this as well, hence the term "Closed Beta" I know what I'm debating on purchasing is not a "full service" or "complete" game per-say. That's the great thing about beta's you get to help in any way you can and watch a game grow in front of your eyes.

Dragonlord, on 21 August 2012 - 07:18 AM, said:

All feedback is welcome, both positive and negative, and you will get far better responses if you are constructive with your feedback, and not post threads that just boils down to "This game sux", or you will get the community telling you "Its Beta".

Before you post feedback, take the time to read the stickies(Pinned) and other information around the forums, as in all likelihood the things you want to bring up has been explained already.

Hope you will take this advice in the spirit it is offered, and that you find it helpful.

I love giving and recieving feedback, critique, advice.

From what I gather about the community, this place is awesome. I don't think I'll ever leave. You guys have all been more than awesome for a first impression and I have yet to be trolled! This is quite amazing indeed. I look forward to my further endeavors with you all.

[Bansheedragon75]

Glad to hear you understand what you are getting into when buying founders packs.
I figured it would not hurt to offer some advice and try to help at least.

I'm willing to bet that the reason you have not been trolled yet is because you have been smart enough to post in a way that makes people want to listen and discuss things in a civilized manner or to offer useful advice and help.

Hope you will enjoy your stay here.

Edited by Dragonlord, 21 August 2012 - 02:13 PM.

[GnawTsatyr]

BMRX, on 21 August 2012 - 02:06 AM, said:

So you're saying its not a game where a large amount of people play online and kill each other?

Correct, it's currently 8v8 and from what I understand may eventually be 12v12. That's not a large number of people by my count. It's MO if anything. It's just not MMO. We are not all in the same persistent map as massive hoards. Some people choose not to make that distinction when tossing around the term MMO. I do.

*edit*

Upon closer inspection of the thread, someone already clarified this in the same terms. Regardless of how you perceive the numbers, I'm sure that if you are any sort of MechWarrior fan then you will enjoy this game.

Edited by GnawTsatyr, 21 August 2012 - 02:34 PM.

[BMRX]

GnawTsatyr, on 21 August 2012 - 02:19 PM, said:

Correct, it's currently 8v8 and from what I understand may eventually be 12v12. That's not a large number of people by my count. It's MO if anything. It's not MMO. We are not all in the same persistent map as massive hoards. Some people choose not to make that distinction when tossing around the term MMO. I do.

That is understandable, so in fact it is not really considered a MMO as of yet. (And might possibly not be for some time) my opinion is that if you have more than a thousand registered members that in it's self could be considered "massive" sure you don't all play at once but I don't know of too many PvP type games where you are really playing with more than 15 - 30 players per game. The only actual example that I can come up with would be MAG for the PS3... Now that would be an MMO I guess.

But! We could end up getting into a very large discussion about this, and in the end I don't see the point. I understand where you're coming from on the matter and it does make sense, but I really do believe that it would only be declared an 'MO' as you stated if the amount of members that are currently invovled in the closed beta was more around the few hundreds not thousands...

Unless my numbers are completely mistaken, because I am of course ball-parking it and I'm only basing these numbers based on how many online users I see per day and the amount of registered users on the forums.

[SakuranoSenshi]

MMOs don't have thousands of people in the same place at all. At best they have hundreds in a non-combat location dancing on poles... this is an MMO. It might even be a MMORPG in time. Arguing that because our combat is smallish numbers it's not "massively multiplayer" shows a tremendous misunderstanding about what that means.

Edit: The sole exception, to my knowledge, is of course EVE Online. In EVE you really can have thousands of people, not only all in the same system but all in soght of each other and shooting at each other; EVE had to introduce a special system called 'Time Dilation' in the end, to combat the incredible lag caused by the load of such battles and that's on their hardware, which defines 'bleeding edge' for server hosting.

Edited by SakuranoSenshi, 21 August 2012 - 02:43 PM.

[BMRX]

You bring up some good points, and I'll be quoting you on that... Because it's hilariously true... The first thing I thought was WoW.

I had forgotten about EVE, which reminds me about Dust 514... So many games I need to play.