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Holy cow. Quick'n'deadly!

HAHAHAHAHAH, oh gosh, sorry! It's lingo for Simultaneous Fire and Simultaneous Physical Attacks! Basically all it means is that you can declare all of your attacks at the same time that the bot declares theirs. Which of you is getting shot at doesn't really influence who of them you decide to shoot - and maybe similar with physicals. Physicals can be a little bit more iffy because you might want not to kick if someone is kicking you, to reduce chances of falling or stuff like that. I tend to have an Always Kick Policy

Here you go - uploaded it: http://www.filedropper.com/mekhq-0319-windows

I am an idiot, there's also the official downloads where you can choose what to download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mekhq/files/development/

Actually, a couple of questions.

How the hell to I check my Pilot's special abilities? As they've increased to Veteran they've gotten special abilities but I can't find where they are. These should obviously define in which mech I put each mechwarrior, but I CAN'T FIND THEM. I know they're in there somewhere, because MegaMek recognises them and I get some bonuses some time.

Also, has anybody had trouble repairing equipment in their warehouse in version 0.3.19?

I upped my back to the $50 level so I get beta access and also so another $25 go towards GETTING MULTIPLAYER WHICH TOTALLY NEEDS TO HAPPEN!

Edit: also, yes, I could totally care less about specific characters. I generally prefer if everything is procedural. I have a phobia of limited content, as it turns out.

Screw it, why not!

Name: Zhou Smythe
Callsign: Anvil
Age: 29
Birthdate: 13th December
Gender: male

Nation of Origin: Liao

Bio: family's half CC, half FS (hence the name). I had a pretty regular career path in the CCAF, as far as mechwarriors go. Your regular, non-descript mechwarrior grunt, that'd be me! My particular unit in the CCAF got caught up in a lot of the Liao family's incompetent plans. Over time, most of the people I'd known in my unit died or were captured in combat, and I slowly came to realise how the Liao family was manipulating the press to sugar-coat all of their terrible decisions and failed actions. It dawned on me that the people who were commanding us weren't the benevolent rulers they claimed to be, and were instead petty and conniving, with very little thought for their armed forces or citizens. So, after a particularly bloody border skirmish where I was the only left out of my lance, I just punched out and waved the proverbial white flag. I used that opportunity to defect. Maybe I wandered around, or maybe I just joined this unit (that I was fighting against?).

Roll 2d6 (A dice roller can do so): 7
Roll 1d1000 (you can use Random.org to do so): 717

Even with PrincessBot? It's supposed to be a lot more efficient than the usual bot. 4 v 4 battles ought to be not horrible, and I do think you can customise it so that you always get mechs (so you don't get double the # of Vs)... or manually reduce the number of enemy units.

Though admittedly, MegaMek is somehow really taxing on the computer. Some options alleviate this, like calculating moves, LOS, and so forth.

Better always use simfire Makes the game so much quicker! I've yet to find situations where it really matters!

Also, I actually don't know how to set my MGs to rapid fire within MekHQ. Any tips on that?

And how often do you cheat with Against the Bot? Often it'll give me completely impossible missions that destroy an entire lance, or the game will bug and the AI will refuse to deploy. I've been playing what I guess could be termed easy mode by not having double the enemy vehicles, by skipping missions when things are too hot, and by allowing myself to put mechs in a maintenance bay for repairs, and sometimes cheating and GMing CT repairs.

I don't think I'd generally be able to keep up otherwise, though it'd be fun to try to. I also just generally cheat the defection rolls, because I'm not interested in starting from scratch every year.

Also, the reason I reduce the number of enemy vehicles if because battles take too long otherwise, and also because sometimes BT has bullshit luck and you get AC/2 or AC/5'd from a billion miles away, get a critted, and instantly lose the assault mech you just bought to a catastrophic explosion. I just can't deal with that.

Sweet! PTW!

Are you thinking of having people pilot their own mechs by connecting through MegaMek? I mean, whenever possible at all.