A: This rule has stood the test of time. That's right, you can't have a full-fledged
missile boat. A legal mech may have a maximum of three missile racks total (LRM and SRM together). Your mech cannot be capable
of doing more than 30 points of damage with each "type" of missile (LRM or SRM). This is NOT to be construed as to mean that
if you use chain fire as opposed to group fire, you are allowed to carry more missiles. The only exception to this rule is
unmodified, standard configs that came with the game. If you so much as move a heat sink, your mech becomes a custom config
and is subject to the missile boat rule. Because this rule has been so widely misunderstood in the past, we have included
below a partial list of legal configurations under this rule.
Examples of some legal mech configurations:
- No missiles at all (for those who truly seek a challenge)
- 1 SRM pack of any size and no LRMs
- 1 LRM pack of any size and no SRMs
- 1 LRM pack of any size and 1 SRM pack of any size
- 1 LRM pack of any size and 2 SRM packs of any size
- 2 LRM 10 or 15 packs and no SRMs
- 2 LRM 10 or 15 packs and 1 SRM pack of any size
- 3 LRM 10s or 5s and no SRMs
- 2 SRM 6s and 1 SRM 2 with no LRMs
- 3 SRM 4s with no LRMs
- 2 SRM 4s and 1 SRM 2 with no LRMs
- 3 SRM 2s with no LRMs
- Any unmodified, standard mech configuration that came with the game. If you so much as move a heat sink, your mech becomes a custom config and is subject to the above rule.
A. Why yes, didn't I just say that in answer to the last question? But remember that BOTH sides must agree, otherwise the missile boat rule applies.
A. Yes you can only work for one side or the other on each battle. Just show up to the server with several guys. Be sure to negotiate for payment BEFORE the battle. Organizing battles is enough work without haggling with mercaneries during the battle. Use the mercanery employment pay to state standard rates. Work for as many groups as you can get contracts from.
A: Each player has to have a unique email address. You can get a free email account through hotmail or others on the net, so get your brother another email address and have him register.
A: A merc can work for ANYONE, clan or inner sphere alike. That is up to the mercanery group and their employers. It is a personal preference, plus a matter of what work is available. All the merc group has to do is show up to the battle. Any payments to the group can be handled with a transfer to the merc groups account.
A: YES!! This is real-time, so if you get an attack movement, that means that most likely your opponent is logged on now issuing attack orders. If you can beat your opponent to the punch, you might even place reinforcement before they finishing attacking a certain planet. Timing and tactics are very important.
A:This is probably a result of what is know as lag. It takes a certain amount of time for information to get from your computer to your opponents. So you need to lead your target. A higher ping means you have a lot of lag. When your ping is high you can try reconnecting in case you had a bad connection. You can also move to a server with less people. If your modem is anything less than a 28.8 then your modem is slow enough that it is affecting gameplay in most cases and some people will not even be willing to play with you as a result.
A:Check the codes of conduct for instructions.
A. With Regens for both sides, this is not such a heated issue. If they eject or press Ctrl+Q, it is a lost mech. If someone is dropped for any other reason, besides running out of mechs, then everyone else should also exit netmech, reconvene on the kali server, grab the same players and continue with the HUD count as the number of mechs lost. If the kill does not show up on the HUD, then it doesn't count.
A. A unit can attack continuously as long as it has mechs and pilots to fight with them. They can even attack all planets on a border simultaneously, and then fight battles everyday for a while. The group leader just has to keep filling out the movement form for each attack.
A. Well you can kill them to the last man and take all their planets. This means tracking down their men if some of them are hidden in someone If you take their last planet, you get 25% of their resources. They have one week to find a group willing to give them planets or they will be pronounced dead.
A. There is a page with rankings. There are overall rankings and also rankings by group type in three different categories, total production, total planets, and standing armies. If either group is in the top 5 on ANY of these lists, then the merger is prohibited. Remember the owner of terra can make such an exception to the rule.
A. There is a limit of how far you can move. This is called jump distance and the automated system will calculate this for you when doing a movement. You can use the imagemap starmap to find what planets are in range.
The only limits you have are time and money(like in real life). All mechs used on an attack are available. The ratios are recalculated every round. Both sides can regen until they run out of mechs.
A. No way! This ladder is meant to be fun and not being able to play is not fun for the person taken bondsman. A person can role-play this, but that is entirely up to the individual and is beyond the scope of the game system.
A. No.
A. Why haven't you been recruiting? This is a fun ladder, surely you can find some people to play for your group. If this is your first deadline or you just dropped below, I'll give you a another week to go on kali and ask for members. After that, you're history, time to turn in your spot and the next person on the waiting list gets to take your place.
A. Funds can be transfered from another group only from their main bank and this is done using by group leaders using the groupedit form.
A. This is mentioned in the rules. Didn't you read the rules? Go to the first section of the netmech zone area. Start reading there and while you're at it you may as well all the rules.
A. Timing is everything. Good thing I'm here. OK log on to the automated system right now and send an attack force from one of your planets without a battle flag sent onto a planet you expect him to launch an attack from. That will stick his men there. If your opponent sent in just a few mechs, he is probably scoping you out. If you have a weak planet that he found, send in reinforcements now, before he launches his main attack(s) onto that planet. Seconds could count here.
A. Well this is a fast paced ladder, so make sure that someone is on your leader list who WILL be around. If not, FIND someone and ADD them to the list. That is why many groups have several people that get attack messages.
A. No! You can't jump behind front line planets, but every planet within jump distance of an enemy planet is a front line planet. Once you are on an enemy planet a battle flag is set by the automation system. Once a battle flag is set, no one can leave that planet and further points cannot be placed directly there and production cannot be changed. So effectively, until the battles on that planet are resolved and the battle flag has been removed, your jumping is effectively halted until you can hold the planet long enough to attack from it. Troops can still be sent to the planet from adjacent planets which are not engaged in warfare.
A. Go to the automated system and fill out the movement form. Everything else like figuring wether it is in range is done automatically. The people with mechs on the planet are informed of your attack and all forces there are listed. The planet conditions are also listed. The only information not listed is it's production. Now you need to decide how you are going to spend your points for mechs and schedule the battle. Oh, yeah! You have to fight the battle too.
A. Get placed on the waiting list. Periodically we will make room for waiting list units to play! While you're on the waiting list you can make deals with registered groups and fight under their banner, but remember you can still be in only one group at a time, so your group would technically be part of their group. Your patience will be rewarded.
A. Get someone to give you a planet elsewhere and freepassage to the battle front. Then you attack somewhere completely unrelated to your main location and play a new opponent.
A. Get them to give you free passage. You can't go into someone else's space without being welcomed. For free passage, you are given a single point on the planet that acts as a marker. If you take that point with you when you move through, you will have to be given free passage to move through that planet again.
A. The defender group has the total amount of points on the planet MINUS the total of points for unresolved attacks, since they have not arrived yet. The attacking groups have the number of points for their attack available. Attacks are done for individual planets in order. If the attack is successful, they take the planet and become the defender. If they are unsuccessful, the remaining forces retreat. If the next wave is a defending force or their ally, they become reinforcements.