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vorebane posted:the only wrong way to paint a mech is In my defense? I have 10 companies and 7 trinaries of shame and choice paralysis is real. 
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The Interstellar Olive Oil Production Association's XII th Army Corps is quite particular about its parade colors.
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Apr 23, 2022 20:21
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We need a Tiebreaker Vote so the top three options are now the only options.
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Apr 23, 2022 20:30
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cmon vaporwave
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Apr 23, 2022 20:33
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 Just think about the mercenary a e s t h e t i c.
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Apr 23, 2022 21:30
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Obviously the company just paints each lance a different color.
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Jossar posted:Obviously the company just paints each lance a different color. That was going to be my proposal to deal with the wasp vs vaporwave situation, but I'm not sure if that makes life harder on PTN.
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Apr 24, 2022 01:35
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I'd need to have three different sprites for each 'Mech and vehicle in the company because they may change lances from mission to mission, so that would be less than ideal.
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Voted Vaporwave, because while I think the wasp camo owns, a Merc's gotta be as over the top flashy as possible.
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The vote was tied ten minutes after I posted it and it's still tied 51 votes later 
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PoptartsNinja posted:The vote was tied ten minutes after I posted it and it's still tied 51 votes later Magical.
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clearly Wolf, being the ace, just gets their own custom paint job for their mech. I'm not sure how much faster pastel blue makes you though. 78rpm, maybe?
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Half the mechs get one and half get the other, with zero association to what lance they end up in. The mercenaries can spin a story about how these were the custom paintjobs of sadly departed founders Hayard and Gunnes, respectively, who held equal stakes in the company and refused to back down on the issue until both of them died tragically and simultaneously in battle, leaving the issue permanently unsolved.
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Dachshundofdoom posted:Half the mechs get one and half get the other, with zero association to what lance they end up in. That's fine in my book, too!
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Apr 24, 2022 05:31
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I cannot believe that you all took my CYMK joke and RAN WITH IT as the unit colors.  
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Volmarias posted:I cannot believe that you all took my CYMK joke and RAN WITH IT as the unit colors. My terrible monty python joke unit name is in the top 3. Goons will goon
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Apr 24, 2022 06:36
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The original dropship names were all jokes/puns, so I we are just keeping the spirit going 
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Everything we know about IS mercenaries tells us that the puns will be flying like suppressing fire.
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Volmarias posted:I cannot believe that you all took my CYMK joke and RAN WITH IT as the unit colors. Magenta/Cyan and Magenta/Yellow genuinely look good together. 
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I am sad that the Constructicons won't get their day in the sun, but maybe we can use them as OpForce colors instead.
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Cooked Auto posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YsiYNJFyQQ Come for the Warhammer, stay for the subtle Defiance Industries shades
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Im excited that tex is delving into warship classes with this one. I would REALLY love to see him to apart the enterprise lol
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Stravag posted:Im excited that tex is delving into warship classes with this one. I would REALLY love to see him to apart the enterprise lol Turns out if you take a warship fleet that's designed to be photogenic and look intimidating, and you pit it against a warship fleet that's designed for loving poo poo Up, things go sideways.
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The Enterprise was a technological marvel with engines that were a huge technological leap forward. It's just a pity they hosed up the exhaust venting so badly it couldn't generate enough thrust to move in space
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Well, that's what you get when you design engines for a ship and then you quadruple it in size
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And glue half of the added weight in the way of the engines so they have to pipe the exhaust all over the place. I guess it'd be saner to say there was some actual thrust coming out of the whole mess but it was just so dismally weak it was virtually useless, but this is battletech and battletech physics are what they are.
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I somehow posted in the entire wrong thread. This is what happens when you post at 5am kiddies!
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Rorahusky posted:There are some boss fights in the game where between the music, the atmosphere, and the story, you really just feel like you're giving it 110%, because to do anything less than your absolute best would be an utter insult to the moment. Nidhogg's trial was one of those fights, and Brute Justice is another. ...Battletech's changed a lot since I last took part, I see.
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SageNytell posted:
Voted Vapours a e s t h e t i c is life
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M_Gargantua posted:Voted Vapours Enemies should get to hit penalties because they'll be blinded.
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Well, we did have laser projector armor in the last thread 
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Apr 25, 2022 17:46
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Welp, I'm late to the party.
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Quick vote! (For Wasp!)
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 Downtime 1-3 Major Downtime Action: Combat Drills The Bought and Paid For vanished into a cloudbank, its powerful thrusters boring a hole through vapor and cast a scattered, ghostly blue light as the hole closed in behind the passing vessel. Shahrazad was off already, with a load of condensed food bars destined for Xi Ursae Majoris. “Company, at ease!” Raniya ordered over their Stormwolf’s loudspeakers. The assembled BattleMechs of Hayard-Gunnes Inc. dropped their smart salutes. Saluting in a BattleMech wasn’t always the easiest things, a fair number of the company’s ‘Mechs didn’t have the necessary actuators—but a skilled warrior could still make a ‘Mech look alert, and the company’s warriors were skilled enough to pull it off. Or at least skilled enough to make their machines look more relaxed when told to stand at-ease. “Split off by lances and withdraw to your staging areas for the exercise,” Raniya ordered over the company’s channels while they kicked their Stormwolf up to cruising speed. For the purposes of the exercise, the weaponry of the scout and cavalry lances had been loaded with harmless fireworks, low-powered training munitions, and the lasers’ power had been cut enough to give an unlucky bystander the worst sunburn they’d ever had and some unfortunate eye damage. Command lance, by contrast, was fully armed and combat loaded—a fact Raniya had been more than willing to let circulate prior to their drill. That should prove more than enough deterrence for the local banditry, while also discouraging some of the company’s more argumentative warriors from picking fights with one another. They leveled their weapons at the scout ‘Mechs a kilometer distant. Cavalry lance should make short work of them, but each lance had a different goal for the exercise. Cavalry lance was tasked to intercept and ‘destroy’ Scout Lance, while Scout Lance was tasked with evasion and slipping one of their own into Cavalry Lance’s deployment zone. “Let’s do this—begin the exercise!” Random Event Vote Results   Unit colors updated! Warrior Vote   Vote Here! Staff Vote  Vote Here! Contract Vote  Vote Here! Mission Type Explanation: Assassinate – Kill a specific target (typically an enemy battlefield commander) Battle – Defeat an opposing enemy force Defend – Defend an allied facility from a concerted enemy attack Escort – Escort a mobile objective Raid – Strike an enemy facility to weaken its defenders Recovery – Raid objective target(s) to seize salvage, personnel, or data Relief – Rescue a threatened allied force Siege – Assault and seize an enemy base or facility Salvage Explanation: Full – Players receive 100% of all battlefield salvage Objective Only – Employer only takes salvage related to the mission objective (typically the enemy commander's 'Mech or recovery salvage) Prime – Employer takes a few pieces of the ‘best’ piece of salvage, players keep the rest 50/50 Battlefield Exclusive - Players and employer split the battlefield salvage 50/50, but any salvage recovered from the field is kept by the players exclusively 50/50 Battlefield Select – Players and employer split the battlefield salvage 50/50, with the employer keeping salvage of their choice. Any salvage recovered from the field is kept by the players exclusively 50/50 Favored – Players and Employer split the salvage 50/50, with the best salvage going to the players 50/50 Random – All salvage is split 50/50 50/50 Select – Players and Employer split the salvage 50/50, with the best salvage going to the employer Rare Trade – The employer trades in all rare salvage (determined by the employer) for comparable salvage from the Employer's stores or for barter at the local rate Trade-In – All salvage is exchanged for comparable salvage from the Employer's stores or for barter at the local rate None – The employer keeps all the salvage PoptartsNinja fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Apr 28, 2022 |
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I'm excited for this! It looks like Raniya's pronouns are off though 
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gently caress, I was being careful about that too. It's my own fault for shuffling things around right before I posted the thread live.
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I'm voting on the staff to hire, and it looks like I have to select 3 choices- Should I just vote for the two I want and then hire no one as a third? Seems a little counter intuitive. Anyhow though, I'm voting for Habib and Sudhir. Always having at least one good contract on offer seems very very useful, as does ensuring that any pilot injuries or losses result in us getting something monetarily useful to potentially see us through some downtime due to lack of warriors to field. I don't want to hire two 3 cost staff yet, that would put our reserves too dangerously low. Gwaihir fucked around with this message at 00:07 on Apr 28, 2022 |
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Gwaihir posted:I'm voting on the staff to hire, and it looks like I have to select 3 choices- Should I just vote for the two I want and then hire no one as a third? Seems a little counter intuitive. Is it requiring three? It should be a 'vote for who you want' Let me fix that.
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The vote for pilots requires selecting all 9 as well
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Fixed, and the main post is updated, but here are the links just in case Warrior Hiring Vote Staff Hiring Vote
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