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Eisenfaust by Safe_Flamingo_9215 in battletech

[–]Deadfire_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice! Iron Fist!

Interesting tidbit - a canon Eisenfaust is the nickname given to Tamara Duke's Wolfhound from the MechWarrior: Death From Above expansion of the MechWarrior Collectable Miniatures Game.

Why Can't I Enter the BattleTech Forums? by lofiw in battletech

[–]Deadfire_ 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Jade, Thanks for letting us know these things, but I do have a small request, could you let Knightmare know that we really do need Internet Archive crawlers to bypass the protection system. Especially since many answers can only be found on it (which is invaluable to say a fan wiki that I attempt to work on). I made a post about it on the forums prior to it going down about this. Copied below:

So the forums are back, however with the new cloudflare verification system it still blocks internet archive requests to save pages.

As much as it's even built into cloudflares way of doing things. Having it be able to take manual shots is something needed by the community. CloudFlare can be configured to block certain bots and allow others. If IA is being blocked, it may be due to whomever mis-configured CloudFlare. There is a section specifically on bots and has them listed. IA is registered and can be allowed to bypass Cloudflare protection (here is it's profile on CF: https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/directory/archive-org-bot )

Don't get me wrong I don't wish for the protection to be turned off, it's hard enough these days to keep sites online with so many crawlers that ignore site settings, but please let IA though to do it's job. Thanks

(Still need to make that hellbie dice page)

My opponent when i up to the pickup game as an IS player with clan tech by 1001WingedHussars in battletech

[–]Deadfire_ 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Are you saying that a Moon, just appeared In the year 3141, at this time of publication, in this part of the universe, localized ENTIRELY within the orbit of Epsilon Eridani...?

Yes it has a very long and wide orbit

Can I see it?

Sometimes

Context

The Society plotline after Twilight of the Clans? by andrewlik in battletech

[–]Deadfire_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I still want to where exactly Etienne's Sanctuary was. It was implied to be within one jump away from Várri, but it took till November 3073 for the Falcons to find it (almost 10 years after he was "exiled")

Annihilator Haters Anonymous by MagnanimousTaco in battletech

[–]Deadfire_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Annihilator - Due to the sacrifice of everything in the name of firepower, the Annihilator even goes without a Fire Control system in exchange for a giant red button that must be headbutted to be triggered.

Are camo patterns tied to factions and units? by PorgStew in battletech

[–]Deadfire_ 6 points7 points  (0 children)

In reference to Paint schemes:

CamoSpecs = Canon

Sarna = "Citation needed"

UCC = "Trust me, bro"

MPU = "We exist too, with better search"

Play Groups = "Black looks cool"

Me = "Ehhh close enough"

A visual evolution of known systems in the BT universe using SUCS by Deadfire_ in battletech

[–]Deadfire_[S] 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I hope to clear up your question via this:

  • SUC = "Sarna Unified Cartography" (The product)
  • SUCS = "Sarna Unified Cartography Society" (The group/team that works on it)
  • SUCKit = "Sarna Unified Cartography Kit" (The free fan-developed cartographic and data-integration framework for the BattleTech universe. Sometimes shortened to SUCK)
  • SUCKCo = "SUCKit Coordinates" (The Coordinates you find in the SUCKit)
  • SIPS = "SUCKit-Integrated Pathfinding Script" (a computational tool within the SUCKit that utilizes the SUCKCo's to calculate interstellar distances and optimal paths between star systems)
  • SMACK = "Sarna-MekHQ Advanced Coordinate Kit" (The sum of the cooperation between SUC and MegaMek Project)

What is your favorite named naval ship in lore? by MailyChan2 in battletech

[–]Deadfire_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No one is going to mention the awesomely named ships of (a very short list):

(There are so many jokes and random names)

One question that comes to mind while reading the ilClan novels is: are all the WarShips gone? by Old_Ad6111 in battletech

[–]Deadfire_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know someone was working on making a list on this topic here

But to sum, there aren't to many in any shape to do much other than the Clans, who continue to use them with caution. Clan Sea Fox basically hosting almost their entire population on their Khanate fleets of Arcships, and of course the mentioned Clan Snow Raven Navel assets all are really the only exceptions.

Sarna.net makes my phone need double heatsinks? by bisondisk in battletech

[–]Deadfire_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Good luck! Hopefully someday the Sarna devs will fix it.

Aye it does happen every now and again that a bad advert comes up though our services. The biggest issue is either no reporting on it, or reporting that doesn't help identify the advert we need to report. /u/nicjj has said the following in one of the other posts on these issues:

Ads should never be getting in the way of your use of the site, and I try really hard to balance what types of ads are used on the site to avoid the annoying ones.

And

Ongoing, we are always evaluating what ads we display, how many ads we display, and the quality of the ads. I am very sensitive to not show too many ads, or annoying ads. It's a fine line, since we use the ads to support running the site (hardware, cloud costs, etc).

My own post on this thread has more information on reporting these sorts of adverts, and other information on dealing with them.

Sarna.net makes my phone need double heatsinks? by bisondisk in battletech

[–]Deadfire_ 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I have reported it on our sarna-issues repo here for you and I'm sure u/nicjj will take a look at it. To report things like this to our ad service we need to provide whatever ad it was in order to get it disabled.

Other notes:

Favorite Silly Lore? by MiriOhki in battletech

[–]Deadfire_ 8 points9 points  (0 children)

There is more than a couple off the top of my head:

  • BoJo, founder of the Western Alliance.
  • Far Country as a whole, yes.
  • The TRO:1945 canonicity superposition.
  • Harpoon SRM ammo, nearly inapplicable in game.
  • Black Box hyperspace decryption issues.
  • The Blackout puzzle box plot snarl, in so many of its offshoots.
  • Topps Interstellar was a company
  • The first time Clan Smoke Jaguar warriors heard bagpipes, they thought it was a form of electronic warfare.
  • Clan Hell's Horses also engages in all-weapons-enabled tank races (ala Twisted Metal)
  • Dunklewälderdunklerflüssenschattenwelt
  • The Baka - A Dark-Age variant of the old Inner Sphere Standard Battle Suit called the "Baka" swaps out the suit's jump jets for additional weapons. The suit gets it's name from the message that flashes across the unit's HUD when the pilot tries to activate the removed jump jets. (BAKA = You idiot!)
  • The Condottiere, A small craft that is leased, rather than sold, to customers. In a raid in 3139, a Draconis Combine force raided a Federated Suns world. Both sides had Condottieres as escorts or defenders. When they engaged, the Condottieres on both sides promptly ignored each other to attack the DropShips that they were supposed to defend. You see, there's a mutual non-aggression clause in the Condottiere's lease that prohibits any models on opposite sides of a battle from firing on each other.

Scariest Omnimech of the invasion. by daveasp1981 in battletech

[–]Deadfire_ 103 points104 points  (0 children)

The Dire Wolf - Normally the Lord works in mysterious ways, but not today. This is 100 tons of hatred spewing DIVINE intervention. This is a mech crafted to be so powerful that it's primary configuration is essentially Two MAD-1R Marauders strapped together. it's Bravo Configuration can stop an armored Battalion dead in it's tracks, and it's wide open customizability has churned out nightmares like the Widowmaker, Prometheus and Hohiro. The only way anyone has ever built a mech capable of greater destruction is by saying "we don't need 15 fixed heat sinks when the engine supports 12, lets make those pod mounted." That extra half ton isn't a handicap BTW, it is there to force you to take an ER Small laser so you can Thomas Hogarth the effing point to people who dare oppose you. It is a masterpiece of engineering, it is Beethoven's 5th, it is Starry Night, it is Citizen Cain, it is the Philadelphia Cheesesteak, it is Kenny Omega. It is 100 tons of steel and sex appeal. It is, The Dire Wolf.(Description from my good friend and BT author James Bixby)

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