*cough* It's Neroimus.

Wha? Is there a problem?

And yes, I will be on tonight to let people in.

Is there a place on the squad for a newbie... who has 304k in the bank and no worthy Mech! In fact a room for a person who has no clue with this game at all?

...

Don't worry, Nei, we're all still new. Some of us just obsessed about the game a lot more before it's release.

We'll get you going. Also, I think your parts problem might have to do with the fact that you joined Tarakia to start with, and that as long as their capitol is captured by another country their shop is shut down. Join up with the squad tonight, though. I'll try to bring over a few spare parts from Sal Kar when I make the move, and if we end up defecting you'll have better access. Also, you can run the single player missions for parts and experience. The parts won't be great compared to what can be bought online, but you will get a nice varied collection to start yourself off with.

Speaking of which, any request for parts? I can't promise to bring too much over (since mostly I've just been building a good variety of parts) but I'll run a couple missions after work with the express purpose of earning cash to buy parts for the squad. Should I try to pick out parts suited to a specific class? Do you a paricular kind of mobility base or weapon pod? Maybe some support parts like armor plating, etc? Or just some decent system devices?

(I've already got two extra copies of a very good mobility system device, by the way.)

Squad limit is 20 I believe.

20 players cap for a squad but only 6 can play at given time.

Yeah, I've notice... does that also effect the lottery?

For the time being, I manage to scrap a scout/soldier Mech from SP parts, which seems to be ok for the time being. I took it for a test drive on one of the missions to make some money... it held up, although I only manage to destroy 30 out of 32 targets... which is 4.7k in the bank. Still, I have yet to test it with Mech on Mech battle.

Slightly off-topic, Mission 6 for Soldier... TC is useless. Finally was able to finish the soldier story by ignoring the TC chatter.

Zero, I would really appreciate it if you could pick me up some system devices. Sal Kar also seems to have good assist parts and missile weapons, so if you could hook me up with some of those I'd be much appreciative.

I'm a bit tight on cash but I'll try to buy enough heavy cockpits and big guns from Morskoj to spread the love around. Morskoj also has hover and wheel mobility bases with rather impressive max loads, and I've heard that they produce the best radiators so I'll snag some of those too.

That's the only Soldier mission on which I didn't get a Rank S on my first try. Blowing up that enemy base is a total PITA.

If you are tight on cash do the War missions against AI. Each one nets like 170,000. It's a bit rediculous the amount of money you can make really quick. Already there isn't anything I can't buy.

It does not affect the lottery, I won a NA array last night. Squad name is corrected, it's "Wiener Bombers" in the game.

You'll probably see my hounds on the light side - scouts, commanders, soldiers. I like to move fast and have access to lots of information. In fact, I'll probably field our first commander hound tonight. Sal Kar parts for me!

If you are just starting and have no idea what to do, I suggest making a soldier hound for a good combination of mobility and firepower.

So, I grabbed a copy yesterday and gave the game a go. I'm liking it so far, but I'll need to play a bit online to see if it's a keeper. I have to say that the controls are excellent. Within minutes I was comfortable moving around.

I'll probably stick to being a soldier online for a bit, until I get a good feel for it.

One thing about the customization. I really like that you can do so much, but it feels a bit overwhelming. Also, I've yet to figure out how to read the info shown around the screen. I'll have to give it some more time tonight.

Finally, damn it, did you have to pick Monday?! I'm sure we'll play other nights as well, but I more than likely wont be able to play on Mondays.

Yeah, I saw something like that. Consider it yours.

Start up a fake squad. That will allow you to launch Neroimus War missions. Set up a 1 player match in a region with a high reward, then go ready and chose "vs cpu start" before someone can join your lobby. I think people can still join the match after you launch the mission, but most of the time you will be fighting an AI hound. See my notes in the impressions thread for my thoughts on how to approach this kind of match.

One of us, one of us...

I hear ya brother. And I just bought a Logitech G15 keyboard. And headset. And the DS Lite and a host of games a couple weeks back. Damnit!

I might pick this up after work against my better .. er.. wallet judgement.

Another question though, lets just say there's 12 Goodjers online and we all wanna play. Can both "teams" tackle the Online stuff? Or can only 1 team do the Online mode at a time?

I need to get the 360 and a gold account too.

I'll jump on tonight to get in the squad.

I've got a blazing fast scout and soldier hound ready to go.. Point me in the direction of the enemy and give me a shove! I am hoping that they've fixed the crash problem with launching non-Neroimus war sorties, as that seemed to be a problem last night. (I'm 0 for 2 in jumping on live enabled matches..)