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[Felicitatem Parco]

And it doesn't matter if it came out in 3040 as per TRO 3050, because it's 3049 now... so we have it. Retcon counts as canon, after all, and if the 3050 rules say that this weapon was redisvocered in 3040, then players in 3049 should have access to it even if the TRO "doesn't exist yet."

Edited by Prosperity Park, 04 May 2012 - 09:23 AM.

[wwiiogre]

Thanks Garth,

just saying they are available and made the point we don't know how distribution or economy etc will work.

Chris

[Vexgrave Lars]

Besides.. we are the Elite

[Opus]

Vexgrave Lars, on 04 May 2012 - 09:21 AM, said:

Besides.. we are the Elite

And Rich beyond your imagination . .

[Coralld]

Motionless, on 04 May 2012 - 09:05 AM, said:

Yeah but I can still get mine though, right?

No, you are never going to get a Timber Wolf ever, the only Clan mech you will get is a crappy Hunchback IIC held together by bird droppings and duck tape.

[Monky]

If the devs want to make stuff prohibitively expensive or otherwise limit availability without restricting it to cash shop purchases, I'm all down with that, the vanilla rules where IMO much better balanced. It's just kind of absurd to make a 'rarity means you can't have it' argument in a video game.

[PsychoFarmer]

Garth Erlam, on 04 May 2012 - 09:18 AM, said:

I think what he's saying is them existing is not the same as them being usable. People seem to think that every Mechwarrior was rolling in multi-million c-bill beds.

Just the sleepy ones.

I have a boat on some water planet where I drink martinis and wear a nice ruby ring. See:

[Motionless]

Coralld, on 04 May 2012 - 09:23 AM, said:

No, you are never going to get a Timber Wolf ever, the only Clan mech you will get is a crappy Hunchback IIC held together by bird droppings and duck tape.

You wont be smiling when I walk over your twisted metal corpse with that Hunchback IIC!

[Evex]

Garth Erlam, on 04 May 2012 - 08:54 AM, said:

I think what he's saying is there's a difference between "cool, a Raven, that has (some limited, especially the 1X) lostech" vs. "I'm some mook starting out in a Merc Corp, where's my Awesome with dual heatsinks and Guardian ECM?"
The answer, Billy, is in the future, Bobby!

Unless I'm reading him all wrong.

Well then we both would be reading him wrong. What I'm getting is he's saying that even if the tech is available its only been out for four to sixteen years in the canonical timeline, if you go by the year 3049. I'm not even sure what makes people think were starting in 3049? I either missed some sort of announcement, or something. The only official year I see is on the IS map under media which says its 3048. Either way it takes time to manufacture the technology, and then to refit it onto existent battlemechs. So things like gauss rifle, double heat sinks, BAP, AMS and probably a few other technologies would be rare on battlemechs, since they only started reintroducing the equipment three to four years ago. I'm pretty sure most in use battlemechs out there wouldn't have the equipment.

[Ramien]

Garth Erlam, on 04 May 2012 - 09:18 AM, said:

I think what he's saying is them existing is not the same as them being usable. People seem to think that every Mechwarrior was rolling in multi-million c-bill beds.

Considering the Raven didn't seem to see much use until the Beagle Active Probe, ECM, and XL engines were implemented, I'm going to assume that at least some of the technologies will be available in game - I can't see the devs wasting time on the 'experimental EW equipment' of the 1x variant that will see no use in any other mech and is completely obsolete even by the time the game starts.

[DeadWingman]

Orzorn, on 04 May 2012 - 09:16 AM, said:

I got all of those numbers from the TechManual, so they are accurate.

Ahhh diffrent sorce, my bad there.

[Ramien]

Evex, six question of the FAQ states the game will start in 3049.

[Coralld]

Motionless, on 04 May 2012 - 09:26 AM, said:

You wont be smiling when I walk over your twisted metal corpse with that Hunchback IIC!

Perhaps, perhaps not, point being you still won't get your Timber Wolf.

[Aegis Kleais]

I stopped reading the OP the moment he started in with the Lemming Speak ("iz" "haz", etc.)

You just can't be taken seriously about your topic if you bring lemming speak into a thread. Sorry.

[Opus]

Aegis Kleais™, on 04 May 2012 - 09:32 AM, said:

I stopped reading the OP the moment he started in with the Lemming Speak ("iz" "haz", etc.)

You just can't be taken seriously about your topic if you bring lemming speak into a thread. Sorry.

Ouchiz

[Motionless]

Aegis Kleais™, on 04 May 2012 - 09:32 AM, said:

I stopped reading the OP the moment he started in with the Lemming Speak ("iz" "haz", etc.)

You just can't be taken seriously about your topic if you bring lemming speak into a thread. Sorry.

Aegis haz a mad.

[Orzorn]

Evex, on 04 May 2012 - 09:29 AM, said:

I'm not even sure what makes people think were starting in 3049? I either missed some sort of announcement, or something. The only official year I see is on the IS map under media which says its 3048.

Yes, it says 3048, but now its 3049. Perhaps you never read, but the game will follow the exact time of real life. A day in real life is a day in the game world. When MWO was announced, it was 3048, now its 3049. The Clans invade next spring of 3050.

[Aegis Kleais]

Opus, on 04 May 2012 - 09:34 AM, said:

Ouchiz

Motionless, on 04 May 2012 - 09:34 AM, said:

Aegis haz a mad.

...and yet I immediately both expected this, and predicted it.

You silly little lemmings.

[Evex]

Ramien, on 04 May 2012 - 09:31 AM, said:

Evex, six question of the FAQ states the game will start in 3049.

Ah okay so I did miss an announcement, well sort of. Well at least now I'm on the same year as everybody else.

[Opus]

Aegis Kleais™, on 04 May 2012 - 09:35 AM, said:

...and yet I immediately both expected this, and predicted it.

You silly little lemmings.

it is like throwing gas on a fire, speaking of which . . . . .

• AWS-9M - The 9M is an upgrade of the Awesome that uses Star League technologies, and was introduced in 3049^[5]. The 'Mech is built around a 320 Hermes XL Fusion engine, giving the 'Mech a top speed of 64.8 km/h. The heat sinks were upgraded to double heat sinks to allow this variant to be rearmed with three Fusigon Longtooth ER PPCs. The ER PPCs are backed up by two Hovertec Streak SRM-2s, a Magna 400P Medium Pulse Laser, and a Diverse Optics Type 10 Small Pulse Laser. BV (1.0) = 1,469^[1], BV (2.0) = 1,812^[9]

• opps

Edited by Opus, 04 May 2012 - 09:43 AM.