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Hello fellow tree lovers, today I would like to share a sad story of careless vandalism committed against trees on my property.

I was out cleaning up leaves, mostly around the old the old apple trees on the property. Now these aren't spry young sprouts, these venerable trees have been around for a long time, I wouldn't be surprised if some of them are over a hundred years old. The property used to have an orchard on it but that orchard has long since returned to nature, the apple trees are now covered in variety of lichens and have increasingly been crowded out by birch and pine trees.

While their wilder comrades have been untended for many decades the apple trees by the home on the property have been lovingly looked after for many many years. They have survived windstorms, ice storms and lightning strikes. They are hardy old things that have many scars to mark the passage of time. But today I found one of them missing one of its largest fruit bearing branches.

The only tree climbing critter around here that is large enough to break off a branch that big would be a black bear. So I assume that some time in the night a bear tried climbing the tree to get what was left of this years fruit. The greedy gourmand overextended itself, breaking off a fairly large branch and a bunch of smaller ones on the way down.

It would be bad enough if it were just the apple tree but I soon discovered that bears were the least of the trees problems. While out inspecting the property I also noticed that there were signs of a vicious beaver incursion. I had seen the portly rodent sunning himself along the river's edge earlier in the year. I have not seen his home or any felled trees nearby before so I thought he was just passing through.

Turns out he was more than just a visitor, he is also a voracious little vandal. I would not begrudge a beaver his building materials if that's what he was after. But the irksome creature decided to fell three trees and just leave them there. Two of them were just small, hardly any thicker than my forearm but the third was a nice ash tree. Which is unfortunate because there aren't many ash trees on the property. Though perhaps it was a mercy, the emerald ash borer continues its tireless conquest of the continent and the tree probably would have succumbed to infestation when the beetle finally reaches this part of the country.

Clan tech can only go in clan mechs. Clan weapon systems have their advantages and disadvantages. For example clan lasers have longer range but they are hotter and have a longer burn time.

Unfortunately when you are buying a mech they aren't separated between clan and inner sphere. But it's pretty easy to tell the difference, if you click on a mech and look at its weapon systems if they are using clan tech it is a clan mech. Clan tech will always have a C- before it.

Just thought people might like to know there is a free Centurion up for grabs if you go to https://mwomercs.com/profile/redeem and use the code NCIXMECH

In other news the patch notes are out.

https://mwomercs.com/news/2016/11/1664-patch-notes-1487-15nov2016

UAC nerfs across the board! UAC / 2s get a nerf, UAC / 20s, get a nerf! EVERYBODY GETS A NERF!

I mean okay UAC 5s and 10s are very strong.

But 2s and 20s? There's a reason nobody boats them except the occasional silly dire whale or the even sillier Hunchback IIc. The UAC 2s have a very good potential dps, and the UAC 20s have a lot of burst but the downsides make them not as good as other options. Now they have more downsides.

Oh well.

I don't know, I don't think Androxus (the reaper looking fellow) is terribly OP. He's pretty fragile, has a relatively short effective range and his dash doesn't take him all that far. I've shot plenty of Androxuses and Drogozes out of the air with Cassie. I do think he rewards good play though, you really do have to flank or you will die terribly every time you run into an enemy.

I don't really feel like there are any characters that are terribly OP at the moment. I don't think everything is perfectly balanced either, but it's still in beta and changing fairly regularly. There are definitely characters that feel a bit weaker than their counterparts though.

My biggest issue with the game right now is that hitboxes really do seem overly generous. That and I think the replay system isn't perfect so it frequently looks like people are shooting people they don't have LOS on in the death recaps.

It's funny when I first started playing I thought most people who played the game were terrible at it, but then I found out later for like the first five levels you are only playing against bots. The game, as far as I know, never tells you this and the bots are named in such a way that it isn't immediately apparent that they are bots.

It looks a bit cheesy, but I'm still interested. From what I've read it's going to be a more focused experience than Pillars which will be nice. Not every RPG needs to be 100+ hours.

Thanks. Still can't seem to find it though. I have a feeling either something is wrong or I'm just completely blind

Here is a screenshot of my character select page: http://imgur.com/a/EhrkU

What surprises me more is that people still play Graal.