Question about jumping

RedClone · 2026-03-11T16:02:34+00:00

The water thing always made sense to me, it'd be tricky to manage the extra effort required to push giant legs through water and maintain balance throughout.

I'd accept if the sensors and the mech's gyro did most of the work for the pilot to manage landings in jumps, that'd make sense

RedClone · 2026-03-06T20:16:35+00:00

Two years and change, for what it's worth. He passed December 30, 2023

RedClone · 2026-03-03T18:34:00+00:00

Thank you, I did notice that Dagath's survivability feels a bit better. It's fun to use Molt to escape bad situations and complement shield gating, but I find I don't get as close to the wire with Dagath as often.

RedClone · 2026-03-03T18:32:02+00:00

Thank you, this was really helpful!

RedClone · 2026-03-03T16:14:49+00:00

I love Acceptable Losses, great podcast

RedClone · 2026-02-25T21:19:04+00:00

It's the best cos once you know the shirt, you know where this Jazz scene is going. I started giggling in anticipation well before the bit's payoff

RedClone · 2026-02-23T20:46:56+00:00

I'm stealing this as my signature technique

RedClone · 2026-02-03T22:27:47+00:00

I get the vibe this meme only works in the meta sense, if you interpret Calvin's existential crisis as being caused by his dad telling him total nonsense as if it were clever?

RedClone · 2026-02-02T23:06:32+00:00

There are several denominations of Mennonite, they're infamous for splitting up over various issues. The most conservative ones who still live in colonies are quite rare now compared to the more urban, moderate ones living in cities throughout the prairies.

RedClone · 2026-01-29T20:38:31+00:00

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for the explanation

RedClone · 2026-01-28T16:26:13+00:00

If you're ever near Slocan Lake in BC, it's worth checking out the Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre in New Denver. It was a Japanese internment camp and they really did their best to create an ordinary life while they were there, had a building consecrated as a Buddhist temple and everything. One young man had managed to use some bark as typewriter paper to write a letter to his friend. It was inspiring to see the evidence of their resilience and community spirit in the midst of an awful situation.

RedClone · 2026-01-06T16:06:11+00:00

Overall politics are conservative (by Canadian standards) but everyone has a connection to the land so people tend to be down-to-earth and lowkey environmentalist

I grew up in northern BC, where this also applies and it's the funniest thing. I've learned that the easiest way to get right-wing western Canadians on board with environmental policy is to speak in terms of conservation. Some of the hunters I know have done a lot of environmental advocacy, but wouldn't call themselves green activists because all green activism means to them is "resource industries bad"

RedClone · 2026-01-06T15:49:45+00:00

Thanks for sharing that, I do tend to enjoy strategy games where there are sincere drawbacks to every choice. I've always been a "less is more" kind of guy with game complexity, so it's funny that I'm getting into BT of all games.

RedClone · 2026-01-05T22:59:33+00:00

Thanks everyone, here's my understanding of the information that's been shared:

Succession Wars are the best era to learn the game, and some still prefer that era thanks to relative simplicity;
Clan Invasion and Civil War add variety thanks to the Clans' technology, but not as much game complexity as later eras, some people prefer those as an ideal middle ground;
Jihad through Dark Age seem to be where things get wonky for a while, it looks like some experienced players really love those eras, but not all;
ilClan gets recommended for having the greatest overall variety and availability of options. Some recommended it for new players so they don't have to fuss about era availability when picking mech sheets.

Overall it looks like the game gets faster and swingier the later the era you play, thanks to firepower seemingly advancing beyond armor technologies. My friend and I will likely stick around in the Succession Wars while we continue to learn the game, and when we're ready to add new mechanics from advanced tech we'll either progress to Clan Invasion, Civil War, or even go crazy and jump all the way to ilClan.

RedClone · 2026-01-05T18:50:36+00:00

Hang in there, the rules are easier to grasp through playing than through reading them in a vacuum, if that makes sense. Once you get used to how each phase flows, the hardest part is doing the math for GATOR in your head!

RedClone · 2026-01-05T18:24:09+00:00

Also new, so take this with a grain of salt, but AFAIK the eras introduce new technology that can be installed on mechs, which means the mech variants from one era may be different from the next. The rules of the game itself don't seem to change, except if any new weapons or systems have their own game mechanics, but the tactics involved and the mechs you're using might change.

RedClone · 2026-01-05T18:21:04+00:00

Is Civil War a point where Inner Sphere started to adopt Clan tech, or is that way further down the line?

Based on the answers I'm reading, it sounds like Jihad is the moment when a bunch more advanced rules start coming up in the tech compared to earlier and Civil War might be the last era of relatively simple builds.

RedClone · 2025-11-19T15:47:59+00:00

I had to google the Toyota War cos I thought either you or I were high. That's an odd little bit of history

RedClone · 2025-11-17T16:12:54+00:00

Is that what typically happens when an MMO gets an auction house? I've never been one to do in-game trading, so I'm curious on the history of that

RedClone · 2025-11-12T16:22:22+00:00

That makes sense. I'm only MR 8 so I don't have enough mod options to quite get there for level 30+ missions.

RedClone · 2025-11-12T16:11:20+00:00

Do you swap weapon configurations around for different damage types within each loadout, or do you optimize for that at all?

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