Hey everyone!

I've replied to a few posts but just wanted to intro myself really quick.  Also I have a question..

I play in the NBT:HC (Netbattletech:HardCore) league.  The Dev's post the newsletter there so I know they are aware of the league.

One challenge I've seen is that with the money limitations and what was outlined that might not work with our league.

You see we have a planetary league where we have to plan our drop decs (mech forces) and configurations out ahead of time.  Is that going to be possible with the money restrictions?  How long does it take to configure a mech and can you have multiple configs for 1 mech?

Sounds great, the best pilots get to use the best mechs - thus they become giants on the field of battle, and everyone else is left to their normal devices. I like how that adds spread to the types of mechs on the map as well, you're not going to see everyone in an assault or heavy, because not everyone can afford it.

Largely depends on what exactly needs to be changed from the core mod to suit your needs.
However, as we're not even at feature freeze state, assumptions and discussions are basically moot. Note though that we can teach and help out, which is probably more likely than us providing a separate build for NBT:HC's needs.

Actually I disagree make it a server setting.  For leagues like Mechwarrior Leagues and NBT-HC this would be quite helpful.   

Aurora Paradox
Clan Smoke Jaguar
Alpha Star
Star Captain

Oh well, I can't have everything.  But you know where I'll be playing.   

What do you mean?

Is it possible to make the server to only let in people with certain IPs and nicks, for example people who have registered on a website? Can the server also be forced to only let those people with certain name/IP to be able to only join one predefined team? How about letting a player to choose only from a certain list of mechs, vehicles etc? Those would open huge possitiblities. It would be nice to have players forced to join clans/squads/companies/whatever in which they would only have access to a certain number of stuff, reinforcements dropping slowly, and they should divide(the CO & XO divide  ) all that stuff between the members. reinforcements and amount of stuff would of course be relative to the amount of time that clan/whatever would spend on that server.

Would, IMHO, make it possible to have a server without complete noobs, people actually co-operating, actually trying to stay alive and especially every kill especially over, say, an Atlas or other assault mech, would mean something more than just a kill to the whole team.

I've seen similar systems being used in a few other games, and the only problem in the system is the amount of players, if the game is very old(or unpopular, such as flight sims).