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TFT-A9 said:
If this is in regards to MWO, definitely. Any time your FPS goes below 30 you're going to have issues, though usually that issue only cropped up strongly on Solaris City. That said, apparently a LOT of maps are having more issues than they used to, and some mechs have hilariously bad hitreg issues. I've seen Piranhas eat a dual Heavy Gauss shot (the damage indicators even blink) but the mech takes zero damage.
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Yeah I've noticed that too, hitting a guy from behind with two Heavy PPCs and see him any king of reaction is frustrating. Though when it does happen, watching some guy die at 90 FPS with settings set at full is honestly fun to see. Specially when the ammo cooks off.

Also in regards to Ilklan there was a major arguement over at the chans in regards to Clan Sea Fox doing what Comstar couldn't. Restoring a HPG that was effected by Grey Monday.
 
Gezkill said:
Also in regards to Ilklan there was a major arguement over at the chans in regards to Clan Sea Fox doing what Comstar couldn't. Restoring a HPG that was effected by Grey Monday.
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Uhm Comstar managed to get one station running before that. The one on Wyatt and from what I read it is still running. Unfortunately this fix didn't work with other stations. And the Foxes so far have only managed a partial repair as the communication seems to be faulty. Perhaps we get an entrance from the Scorpions at one point as they have a running HPG net since Clarion Call didn't reach the Deep Periphery. Or the dissapeared Tucker Harvison will make something happen (funny how that guy managed to dissapear on a fully occupioed Terra right after visitng a dying Devlin Stone)
 
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Also in regards to Ilklan there was a major arguement over at the chans in regards to Clan Sea Fox doing what Comstar couldn't. Restoring a HPG that was effected by Grey Monday.
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In fairness, if anyone would be able to repair/refurbish a broken HPG station it would be the Sea Foxes.

The Clans were maintaining their own HPGs for two centuries without ComStar's help and they didn't lose any knowledge in the Word of Blake schism and Jihad. The Happy Merchants were the ones most familiar with the system since they had already implemented and ran the Chatterweb in the Clan Homeworlds since Operation KLONDIKE. Given the "pulsed" nature of HPG communication, the Chatterweb is a much more technically impressive feat than it might sound at first blush.
 
Corn Flakes said:
In fairness, if anyone would be able to repair/refurbish a broken HPG station it would be the Sea Foxes.

The Clans were maintaining their own HPGs for two centuries without ComStar's help and they didn't lose any knowledge in the Word of Blake schism and Jihad. The Happy Merchants were the ones most familiar with the system since they had already implemented and ran the Chatterweb in the Clan Homeworlds since Operation KLONDIKE. Given the "pulsed" nature of HPG communication, the Chatterweb is a much more technically impressive feat than it might sound at first blush.
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Spheroid: "Thanks for repairing our HPG station."
Sea Fox: "Don't worry, as long as you got the coin, we got you covered... speaking of which, we installed a VPN, so you can shitpost on 4clan."
Spheroid: "What"?
Sea Fox: "What?"
 
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Yeah the Chatterweb sections of the Jihad books were some of the funniest parts. You would think the Clanners are all dead serious but when they chat they act like Kiwis or 4channers.

What gets me about the Dark Age is though that in the very first novel "Ghost Wars" it is mentioned that the Republic is using Fax networks (the "before HPG tech") but then suddenly "Nope all Fax machines are dead". Like what happened?
 
Balr0g said:
Yeah the Chatterweb sections of the Jihad books were some of the funniest parts. You would think the Clanners are all dead serious but when they chat they act like Kiwis or 4channers.

What gets me about the Dark Age is though that in the very first novel "Ghost Wars" it is mentioned that the Republic is using Fax networks (the "before HPG tech") but then suddenly "Nope all Fax machines are dead". Like what happened?
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got blackfaxed to death and fax toner is lostech
 
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TFT-A9 said:
got blackfaxed to death and fax toner is lostech
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And everyone knows ComStar are cunts who hardwired in toner checks and DRM on all of their HPG tech...

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The Fenrir II Assault Battle Armor may have allegedly originated as the result of a bet between Archon Adam Steiner and Duke Vedet Brewer of Hesperus II, but Duke Brewer's vision of "a monstrous wolf straight from the nightmares of our ancestors" proved to be one of the most popular battle suits on the market after its introduction to service in 3119.
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When the fuck did the Lyrans get a massive Swedish population?
 
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Corn Flakes said:
The Lyran Intelligence Corps has divisions called "Norns", "LOKI" and "Heimdall". These fucks have always been a mish-mash of Nordic and German elements.
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Na, the Germans in general are like that. Prior to converting to Christianity they shared a pantheon and mythology with the Norse. I was just pointing out "Nightmares of what ancestors?" for a dude who looks like Generic African-American Number 25.
 
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Snekposter said:
Na, the Germans in general are like that. Prior to converting to Christianity they shared a pantheon and mythology with the Norse. I was just pointing out "Nightmares of what ancestors?" for a dude who looks like Generic African-American Number 25.
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That's just Battletech, though. It has always been a setting where you find the most incongruent name/ethnicity combos out there.

Case in point, this fella here:
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Fucking Minobu Tetsuhara. If this dude had been any more culturally Japanese he'd qualify for a Chinese Capellan comfort wife and a position as Coordinator of the Draconis Combine. And he's from a book from 1989.

The really fun ones are the Capellans, though. On some planets you have a whole sea of freckled, bright ginger Lees, Fongs, Sungs and Fangs, and the only actual Chinese-looking motherfucker in the bunch is the MacDougall.
 
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Snekposter said:
Na, the Germans in general are like that. Prior to converting to Christianity they shared a pantheon and mythology with the Norse. I was just pointing out "Nightmares of what ancestors?" for a dude who looks like Generic African-American Number 25.
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I got the House Steiner Handbook and I was suprised to see that the CEO of Defiance Industries was a balck guy. I thought he was white (he was also mentioned in the novel that told the destruction oif the Grey Death Legion) And what a coincidence his short Archon rule was even more disastrous then his predecessors. Plus the coward feld from Tharkad when the Wolves and Falcons came knocking.

Also the German trend of the Lyran Commonwealth only came when Elizabeth Steiner took the throne. She basically "Germanized" the realm. Before it was a mix of different cultures
 
Balr0g said:
Also the German trend of the Lyran Commonwealth only came when Elizabeth Steiner took the throne. She basically "Germanized" the realm. Before it was a mix of different cultures
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That's common for the Successor States. We've already discussed Urizen Kurita II forcing Japanese culture on everyone, and then Sun-Tzu doubled-down on the Cappies being Chinese with the post-2SL Xin Sheng movement. I think the FedSuns had their own cultural shift thanks to Alexander Davion forcing (mostly) benevolent autocracy on them following the Davion Civil War.
 
Snekposter said:
That's common for the Successor States. We've already discussed Urizen Kurita II forcing Japanese culture on everyone, and then Sun-Tzu doubled-down on the Cappies being Chinese with the post-2SL Xin Sheng movement. I think the FedSuns had their own cultural shift thanks to Alexander Davion forcing (mostly) benevolent autocracy on them following the Davion Civil War.
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Yeah, the Inner Sphere was colonized by a bunch of different groups, and in many waves. Case in point, all the culturally Hindu enclaves scattered about like the United Hindu Collective on the rimward edge of the Federated Suns, or the Regulans in the Free Worlds League. Meanwhile, even the "we will culturally standardize your ass" Draconis Combine had such a problem with the Swedes that they could only get rid of them by granting them independence as Rasalhague (and they still have a bunch of more integrated Swedes kicking around even post-Clan Invasion), and the Azami are also such a thorn in their side they're effectively semi-autonomous.

The Successor States all have their overarching cultural stereotypes, but for all Current Year screeching about "diversity", the setting has always been truly diverse. Most real-life cultures and ethnicities are represented, and after 1000 years of space colonization and general movement of people through the Inner Sphere you can reasonably find them anywhere. For example, want your Davion pilot to be Mongolian even though the FedSuns are painfully Anglo-French? Her relatively wealthy family moved out of Foot Fall when it was briefly captured by the FedSuns and settled in Kathil. Or she's from a minor Mongolian enclave in some half-forgotten world that's always been part of the FedSuns. Bam. Done.
 
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Corn Flakes said:
Yeah, the Inner Sphere was colonized by a bunch of different groups, and in many waves. Case in point, all the culturally Hindu enclaves scattered about like the United Hindu Collective on the rimward edge of the Federated Suns, or the Regulans in the Free Worlds League. Meanwhile, even the "we will culturally standardize your ass" Draconis Combine had such a problem with the Swedes that they could only get rid of them by granting them independence as Rasalhague (and they still have a bunch of more integrated Swedes kicking around even post-Clan Invasion), and the Azami are also such a thorn in their side they're effectively semi-autonomous.

The Successor States all have their overarching cultural stereotypes, but for all Current Year screeching about "diversity", the setting has always been truly diverse. Most real-life cultures and ethnicities are represented, and after 2000 years of space colonization and general movement of people through the Inner Sphere you can reasonably find them anywhere. For example, want your Davion pilot to be Mongolian even though the FedSuns are painfully Anglo-French? Her relatively wealthy family moved out of Foot Fall when it was briefly captured by the FedSuns and settled in Kathil. Or she's from a minor Mongolian enclave in some half-forgotten world that's always been part of the FedSuns. Bam. Done.
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Yup.

And to add to this, there's very little if any racial genotype hatred. People don't hate that guy 'cause he's Russian, they hate him 'cause he's a dirty Capellan.

EDIT: Now I have this hilarious image of some Spheroids finding a database of the Farms and asking in confusion, 'What the frak is a nigger?'.
 
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EDIT: Now I have this hilarious image of some Spheroids finding a database of the Farms and asking in confusion, 'What the frak is a nigger?'.
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Want something really funny? As far as I know BT's original designers back in the 80s were all American, so the Successor States are all patterned after European and Asian cultures partially because they were exotic cultures for them. That means that the closest thing to culturally "American" you get in that setting would be the Terran Hegemony. You know, the faction that was already extinct at the start of the game. Or possibly those "generic, non-ethnic" cultures you see scattered around.

It also means that basically all black people across the Inner Sphere, unless specified otherwise, are descended from actual bone-fide Africans who joined the diaspora in many different waves going in many different directions. There are no actual niggers in space because the original structure of the setting didn't think about African-Americans. I think later on there was one planet with a heavy Louisiana feel to it, and a couple that are Caribbean-influenced, but yeah. I just think it's funny.
 
Corn Flakes said:
Want something really funny? As far as I know BT's original designers back in the 80s were all American, so the Successor States are all patterned after European and Asian cultures partially because they were exotic cultures for them. That means that the closest thing to culturally "American" you get in that setting would be the Terran Hegemony. You know, the faction that was already extinct at the start of the game. Or possibly those "generic, non-ethnic" cultures you see scattered around.

It also means that basically all black people across the Inner Sphere, unless specified otherwise, are descended from actual bone-fide Africans who joined the diaspora in many different waves going in many different directions. There are no actual niggers in space because the original structure of the setting didn't think about African-Americans. I think later on there was one planet with a heavy Louisiana feel to it, and a couple that are Caribbean-influenced, but yeah. I just think it's funny.
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I was going to ask about a Planet Florida, but uh... pretty sure that's in CHH territory judging by their Florida Man sense of fashion.
 
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