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[Xeanth]

Khobai, on 17 February 2013 - 12:09 PM, said:

If PGI gets it together we might see the clans after summer. My guess is late september at the earliest.

Of what year? lol...at this pace, it really will be 3050.

[DarkDevilDancer]

I want a timberwolf so bad, but i want the game to do well even more so i'd say CW first then we can get the invasion going.

[Grrzoot]

DirePhoenix, on 17 February 2013 - 02:01 PM, said:

1) If they intend on sticking to the current timeline, the Clan Invasion is going to start in a few weeks.

2) We've heard nothing about the timeframe on Community Warfare implementation other than "don't ask" and "later this year" (to me that means December... if they haven't scrapped the idea by then).

Introducing the Clans with or prior to Community Warfare is implemented will pretty much trivialize any House vs. House action, as the entire Inner Sphere unites to face this "greater common enemy" , at which point any "community" style gameplay will probably be focused entirely on IS vs. Clans... again, if implemented at all.

This is probably reason #8,637,159 why a 3015 timeline would have been better for the entire game. Middle of the 3rd Succession War, all 5 houses are embroiled in battle with each other, tech base across all factions are pretty much identical, and little to zero lore to have to tiptoe your way around over the course of the game. You'd have about 13 years of real-time to do anything you want as long as you keep all 5 Houses from completely falling.

The thing is though, the clans invaded the (outer)? Innersphere first, and since there is no cw yet, there is no saying where all our random mech battles are taking place. Most likely CW will open with only innermost worlds giving the devs the extra time the need to match up the clan invasion with the location of the worlds they release.

tldr. clans didn't invade earth instantly so as long as the worlds they pick are closer to center it gives them time to match up Clan invasion and timeline.

[Star Colonel Mustard Kerensky]

Grrzoot, on 17 February 2013 - 04:27 PM, said:

The thing is though, the clans invaded the (outer)? Innersphere first, and since there is no cw yet, there is no saying where all our random mech battles are taking place. Most likely CW will open with only innermost worlds giving the devs the extra time the need to match up the clan invasion with the location of the worlds they release.

tldr. clans didn't invade earth instantly so as long as the worlds they pick are closer to center it gives them time to match up Clan invasion and timeline.

Even then, the IS guys didn't instantly start producing clantech the moment the clans arrive. It takes a while to reverse engineer that stuff/ find usable salvage.

[Eric darkstar Marr]

Grrzoot, on 17 February 2013 - 04:27 PM, said:

The thing is though, the clans invaded the (outer)? Innersphere first, and since there is no cw yet, there is no saying where all our random mech battles are taking place. Most likely CW will open with only innermost worlds giving the devs the extra time the need to match up the clan invasion with the location of the worlds they release.

tldr. clans didn't invade earth instantly so as long as the worlds they pick are closer to center it gives them time to match up Clan invasion and timeline.

The clans have been invading the Periphery for a while now I want to say in August of 3049, I don't have the time to look it up in my books though. The first two Clan Omnis the Inner Sphere saw were the Summoner(Thor) and the Timber Wolf(MadCat) in the middle of March of 3050. Okay took a second to look it up http://www.sarna.net.../Clan_Invasion.

As for CW no one knows.I doubt it will be the central core worlds as those are controlled by ComStar, If anything I would wager somewhere in the Periphery maybe the side down my FRR and not Up by Kurita space since the clans have already been taking them over.

These are just guesses by myself.

[Lonestar1771]

Pretty sure they said CW will be coming in waves (much like matchmaking) so we will see the first iteration of CW before Clans, but clan mechs will be in before CW is done.

[MustrumRidcully]

I always assumed so.

[Merky Merc]

If they follow the timeline I'm confused as to how community/house warfare will even work. Davions and Steiners should be all buddy buddy right now, and then the whole ermahgawd clans things brings every other faction together to reform the star league. Are we going to have a whole month of community warfare and then every IS crew starts being matched together to eradicate clans or am I missing something?

Alternatively, do clanners just run boring trials while IS pilots are subjected to CSPAN like videos of IS politickin as the Star League is reformed? These are the hard questions, I think the most acceptable answer is a dual RAC bushwacker.

[Mr Mantis]

My fear is that we still wont have enough time to get our inner sphere battles going before the clans invade, we may get what a few months before clans invade. I would not mind one bit if they just set the clock back a year to get this right. Obviously this cannot happen considering the main money makers are the clans, because of mw2 nostalgia.

[Inertiaman]

lsp, on 17 February 2013 - 01:06 PM, said:

Anyone ever notice that everything robot themed is always asian. Robo tech, mechwarrior, gundam, armored core. Why? I'm surprised I'm even a fan, everything is so asian themed in mechwarrior(the original mech designs are so terrible. And the best designs are stole out of robo tech). Explains why I never got more involved then the computer games. How's that for random and off topic.

Awww poor widdle whitey with his no liberty. HERRO I BIG ASIA MECH COME TO TAKE JUHBS.

[Tompaboy]

Havent u understood whats coming?
The clans invasion..... european servers.....
Its all clear to me now atleast.

The europeans will be the Clans!
1 clan for each major area of europe.

[Inertiaman]

You will toil under the jackboot of the Euro World Army! ALSO YOUR CHEESE QUALITY WILL RISE DRAMATICALLY UNDER OUR REIGN.

[buttmonkey]

Vassago Rain, on 17 February 2013 - 11:54 AM, said:

I have bets running on this.
Community warfare before clans. Clans announced in march. Released after summer.

the amount of posts tells me this guy actually lives inside the mw:o forums so i will believe what he says

[Balfor]

zverofaust, on 17 February 2013 - 11:24 AM, said:

It makes perfect sense right? Excepting complete and total incompetence on PGI's part, merging the arrival of the Clans with the long-awaited launch of Community Warfare seems like the perfect marriage.

Signed ironically,

Zverofaust

1724 posts of complete and total incompetence from you.
It make no Sense...right?

So pls go on to the next Game to rant about it and spare us with THIS.

Signed (not ironically),
Balfor

Edited by Balfor, 18 February 2013 - 04:45 AM.

[Jason1138]

some of you optimists need to do the math on how often these mechs are being released. unless the pace significantly ramps up we won't even have our 20 launch mechs by the time the Clans are supposed to invade

i wouldn't expect the Clans any time in 2013. Not holding my breath for CW either

[ObsidianSpectre]

Launching two major changes at the same time would be a huge mistake. I'm expecting Clans to come before CW, so that they can get the balance issues resolved before going into CW.

As a side note, I suspect they've been banking mechs for the Clan launch since October - it seems like they should have the bandwidth to do about two mechs per month instead of just one.

[Khobai]

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As a side note, I suspect they've been banking mechs for the Clan launch since October - it seems like they should have the bandwidth to do about two mechs per month instead of just one.

Obviously. Because if their mech guy only makes 1 mech a month hes not doing his job

My guess is we'll get 8 clan mechs immediately... and then the rest of the clan mechs will come 1 at a time for a few months.

[Aidan McRae]

DirePhoenix, on 17 February 2013 - 02:01 PM, said:

This is probably reason #8,637,159 why a 3015 timeline would have been better for the entire game. Middle of the 3rd Succession War, all 5 houses are embroiled in battle with each other, tech base across all factions are pretty much identical, and little to zero lore to have to tiptoe your way around over the course of the game. You'd have about 13 years of real-time to do anything you want as long as you keep all 5 Houses from completely falling.

Agreed. I wish they had stuck to the base of MPBT. Mostly Stock Mechs with some system in place to make 'upgrades'/changes possible, but slow and earned. Then focus on implementing game types and Community Warfare.

[Agent of Change]

I'm inclined to believe that we will see cw introduced and established before we see the clans in for balancing purposes than nothing else.

Now this next part is half prediction/half wishful thinking:

The clans will not be announced until AFTER we have seen them in game. Sounds odd but follow me here. Imagine you log into the game and are playing normally and suddenly you crest a hill to see a Timber Wolf, Mad Dog, or Nova Cat. First you are a little stunned and then you likely get rolled, hopefully someone took a screen shot.

Now what is the FIRST thing you do if you frequent the forums, you post a thread declaring "the clans are here", and whatever evidence you have. Assuming you are the first then you will have people telling you to go troll something else, Nice 'shopping screen shots, etc... but then other people will run into the clan drop and start confirming it. Do that for a full patch cycle (2 weeks) with just 1 or 2 drop groups run by devs or whoever keeping it low key, the buzz would be massive because we'd all want to know what is happening and the only info we would have would be from those people who actually fought them.

THEN after a 2 weeks of clan mechs showing up randomly in game messing people up, you announce them in a big way and you've already got word of mouth and anticipation at a fever pitch because of the in game stealth appearance.

That would freaking awesome.

edit: fixin stuff

Edited by Agent of Change, 18 February 2013 - 06:24 AM.

[Davion5150]

I don't see CW coming until late this year, at the earliest. And I don't see the clans being implemented until next year.