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That Guy, on 10 March 2012 - 06:12 PM, said:
they really need to limit the clans. make playing them HARD. the clans have a very competative, and cut throat way of life. that needs to be represented in game.
you start the clans as a lowly bondsman. you are stuck with your old IS tech. not only that you need to fight by clan rules, and WIN. so starting off you are outnumbered, and still expected to behaive like a clansmen. as you gain LP (or honor points to coin a new term) you become better off by getting access to some clan level weapons to upgrade your old rides, eventually being able to get IIc mechs and finally, when you attain the rank of a full clan mechwarrior, access to clan omnimechs. if you screw up? break clans rules? DEMOTION (no "honorary captain" stuff here, you LOOSE rank!). screw up enough? get ejected back to lone wolf status, loosing all your nifty clan gear, and having to start all over a damn again, includeing stuff you many have paid real money for. you should not have been such a ******. (now note, LP decay from inactivity should not treated with such harshness, afterall you may be a star colonol but you still have a real life too. hopefully
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the clans need to be (to borrow the USMC recruitment lingo) "the FEW, the PROUD, the ELITE". in the IS you can play as you wish, do as you wish, be as good or as bad as you like, but to make the jump to clan you damn well better be ready for a more unforgiving enviroment. with the Clan ER meduimlasers that are almost as powerful as IS largelasers, comes great responcibility and dedication.
the IS is for the everyman, the core game. the clans are for the truely dedicated, and not just some powergamer
you start the clans as a lowly bondsman. you are stuck with your old IS tech. not only that you need to fight by clan rules, and WIN. so starting off you are outnumbered, and still expected to behaive like a clansmen. as you gain LP (or honor points to coin a new term) you become better off by getting access to some clan level weapons to upgrade your old rides, eventually being able to get IIc mechs and finally, when you attain the rank of a full clan mechwarrior, access to clan omnimechs. if you screw up? break clans rules? DEMOTION (no "honorary captain" stuff here, you LOOSE rank!). screw up enough? get ejected back to lone wolf status, loosing all your nifty clan gear, and having to start all over a damn again, includeing stuff you many have paid real money for. you should not have been such a ******. (now note, LP decay from inactivity should not treated with such harshness, afterall you may be a star colonol but you still have a real life too. hopefully
)the clans need to be (to borrow the USMC recruitment lingo) "the FEW, the PROUD, the ELITE". in the IS you can play as you wish, do as you wish, be as good or as bad as you like, but to make the jump to clan you damn well better be ready for a more unforgiving enviroment. with the Clan ER meduimlasers that are almost as powerful as IS largelasers, comes great responcibility and dedication.
the IS is for the everyman, the core game. the clans are for the truely dedicated, and not just some powergamer
They definately should make it difficult to be in the Clans. they should make ranking officers bid for the right to take planets so that there bidding widdles down there force giving the IS a fighting chance to repel them and to score some clan tech from salvage
