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[LadyTiggs]

Developments:

 

1. Double HC weekend starts now

2. We've significantly increased the HC rewards for new user achievements

  - The idea is to remove the sense of too much grind

  - New users should be able to buy new stuff - more choice, more fun, less stress at making the "wrong purchase choice"

  - We will be watching "the numbers" to see how it *actually* affects the new user experience

3. We're reviving a different gameserver management system that may actually improve performance a bit

  - It's Ansible-based in case you like that level of detail ;)

4. We have an all-new server in Dallas

  - look for "dallas2"

  - it's running in an Internap data center (they're way into good networking)

5. Community tournaments - if you're running one or if you want to run one, send in a support ticket and tell us about it

  - We want to help make your event a success.

  - those "na" servers are running with this

6. There's a cosmetic item available for HC that's usually only an MC item.

  - Be quick though, this time it really is a limited-time-only thing

7. Probably the most important development this last week was this: http://www.megabots.com/

  - I started talking with them.  How could we partner up?  What do you think?

  - Does this mean we need to somehow challenge the MWO team?

 

 

 

[brackets]

6. There's a cosmetic item available for HC that's usually only an MC item.
  - Be quick though, this time it really is a limited-time-only thing

 
I found it! (is it supposed to be a secret?)

 

Spoiler

It's the TOW rocket in the cockpit

[talon70]

Thanks

 

7. imho, Get to work on limited time "Mega Bot" skins and do whatever is needed  for a partnership . I watched battle bots recently. Ride this wave!

[Elite_is_salty]

Are ashburn servers still there? If not are they never coming back?

[Kopra]

 

Developments:

 

7. Probably the most important development this last week was this: http://www.megabots.com/

  - I started talking with them.  How could we partner up?  What do you think?

Maybe a MegaBot skin for some Hawken mech when you buy some MegaBot merchandise (if they have plans for those) and use a code. But fix the game first please.

 

[Kopra]

Thanks

 

7. imho, Get to work on limited time "Mega Bot" skins and do whatever is needed  for a partnership . I watched battle bots recently. Ride this wave!

Beat me to it.

[Shadeness]

If I click this button, will it deduct HC or MC?

http://i.imgur.com/HpvixRH.jpg

[Hyginos]

If I click this button, will it deduct HC or MC?

http://i.imgur.com/HpvixRH.jpg

one way to find out...

[System64]

I earned those achievements a long time ago, will people that already earned the affected achievements be given free HC due to the increase? (haven't checked my account yet)

Edited by ??�?�؃??, 02 July 2015 - 07:19 PM.

[KaylaClaire]

If I click this button, will it deduct HC or MC?

http://i.imgur.com/HpvixRH.jpg

It will ask you as always when purchasing items which way you wish to pay for it

[hoghead]

Glad to hear from you guys know your busy!

[KaylaClaire]

Thanks for the Tow-Rocket deco! though I'd prefer a bobblehead xD I'll take it anyways!

Edited by KaylaClaire, 02 July 2015 - 07:46 PM.

[Shadeness]

one way to find out...

 
 

It will ask you as always when purchasing items which way you wish to pay for it

 
Still shows MC and no indication that you're going to pay with HC.
 
http://i.imgur.com/hPiQpDN.png
 
Edit: Tried on my alt. I think adding

"MC": "",

broke it btw. You can't purchase it with HC.
 
http://i.imgur.com/BZTl5zS.jpg

 

Edit:

 

MFW I realize I'm trying to click the wrong button. http://i.imgur.com/wtVWYEjm.jpg There's a "Buy" button on the cosmetic item selector. I was trying to use the "batch purchase" button.

Edited by Shadeness, 02 July 2015 - 10:41 PM.

[Spliff_Craven]

Sign me up to be a live pilot!

 

I would love to represent team Hawken in a mega bot challenge.

[Loglino]

Its Friday already.

Oh

 

Don't forget to tell us all about the new engine developer next week/the week after!

[KaylaClaire]

I will volunteer for the megabot challenge xD

You need that tolkien female anyways =p

[phed]

Oh fuzzy bunny, quick, someone build a Scout a own all their face

[ticklemyiguana]

Ansible based?

 

Like the faster than light communication devices used in the Ender's Game universe?

 

fuzzy bunny yeah.

[Aelita]

 
I found it! (is it supposed to be a secret?)

 

Spoiler

It's the TOW rocket in the cockpit

 

Someone hand this man a cookie! Quick!

[Bergwein]

Yesss, the perfect way to represent Hawken would be to build a real life Scout!

Those Megabots there look very heavy and slow.. oh imagine their faces when our Scoot races all over the place, powered by a non-afterburning GE-F118 turbofanengine, boost-dodge-comboing, blasting off their robo-parts with real life Flak Cannons (also needs an air-compressor, of course), orblording like crazy by constantly returning to the O.R.B.s it dropped (short for Obnoxiously Rapid Buddies: compact, deployable, pit stop like constructions featuring mechanics on crack, able to repair our mech to full armor value in 0.1 seconds).

 

Then it bows and drops a holo-taunt in the end. :D

Edited by (KDR) Bergwein, 03 July 2015 - 03:07 AM.

[Nightfirebolt]

 

4. We have an all-new server in Dallas

  - look for "dallas2"

  - it's running in an Internap data center (they're way into good networking)

 

I played on Dallas2 for the first time today, and it seemed to be working well. Granted, I was playing Rocketeer, so I wasn't paying close attention to hit reg stuffs, but I didn't notice any of the other usual problems that I get on Dallas and Dallas1 (rubberbanding, teleporting, etc.) I think you may be onto the solution to this problem, whatever it was.

 

 

6. There's a cosmetic item available for HC that's usually only an MC item.

  - Be quick though, this time it really is a limited-time-only thing

 

Thanks for this :)

 

 

7. Probably the most important development this last week was this: http://www.megabots.com/

  - I started talking with them.  How could we partner up?  What do you think?

 

You could, at the very least, buy some advertising banners to display during their event... Or something? 

Edited by Nightfirebolt, 03 July 2015 - 03:21 AM.

[Elite_is_salty]

@Shadeness

 

Here's how to post images in the forums:

- Get the image's direct link

- Click on that image icon (under the smiley and to the left)

- Paste the link and press ok or press enter.

[dorobo]

good job! Keep it up!

 

about that gift thing...

Edited by dorobo, 03 July 2015 - 11:32 AM.

[The_Silencer]

Great update, thanks! ;)

[gArphEus]

MegaBots??? Shooting with giant paintballs? - Great! Absolutely great! I want 2 pilot 1 of them! I played paintball even b4 that game had that name, and i piloted hundreds of mechs in dozens of mech games, so the combination of both worlds is a fantastic imagnation 4 me! I'm going 2 order me an authentic Infiltrator, featuring the cloaking device, hehehehe.... No! - Really! This is awesome stuff, these guys r working on! Big respect, and thx 4 notifying us about that!

 

Regards, gArphEus.

[Trigary]

MegaBots isn't for us. We have thrusters that should flip us over (and not allowing us dodge sideways). But still, seeing C or A class mechs without thrusters would be nice :D

Edited by 00geri20, 04 July 2015 - 11:07 AM.

[k3l0gg]

Mutual advertising. you give a button (free 100 HC for checking out our badass friends @ Megabots) that goes directly to their site (link to promo, w/e) before big events of theirs, they give you advertising (banners, perhaps a short gameplay ad,) during the events. Boom, everyone gets more folks in their doors.  

[crockrocket]

 

2. We've significantly increased the HC rewards for new user achievements

 

Good. This is important and I think it is a step in the right direction towards improving player retention. 

[EM1O]

@Shadeness

 

Here's how to post images in the forums:

- Get the image's direct link

- Click on that image icon (under the smiley and to the left)

- Paste the link and press ok or press enter.

or just right click on the image, click on Copy Image,

then right click Paste here in the Post box next to the flashing text-entry cursor. much simpler:

3 guesses as to whom this is?

 

[disclaimer: this copy&paste was used in a Mozilla-engine based browser. unknown if it works in M$ products]

Edited by em1o, 05 July 2015 - 10:40 AM.

[Beeper23]

Hmm I think I may have an idea about the partnership with Megabots while also getting at MWO:

 

    -Make a sort of sports arena mode with a certain voice acter doing announcements (George Ledoux :3) and have the Megabots in there as maybe NPC bosses for PvE/Co-op/add chaos in a mostly PvP fight or maybe as mechs only playable in that mode.

 

I think this idea might work on the simple ideas that making a sports arena style of map tends to be simple (something for new team members to do to get used to the tools needed to work on the game if need be), something that MWO doesn't really have yet their fans have been wanting for ages, and it should fit the Megabots just fine compared to the rest of hawken. Also this opens up the idea of PvE/Co-op campaigns without cutting from the PvP.

 

Anyways I'm sure if anythings done or comes from this partnership with Megabots it can only help Hawken.

 

Edit: The arena maps could also have ad space on them now I think about it (since you know sports thing and all) and could open up space to sell to make a few bucks on the side for Hawken or can place ads for say fan sites and other partnerships down the line.

Edited by Beeper23, 06 July 2015 - 04:18 AM.

[Sorroritas]

I earned those achievements a long time ago, will people that already earned the affected achievements be given free HC due to the increase? (haven't checked my account yet)

 

Good question.

I doubt it.

[StubbornPuppet]

I don't need 3 guesses em1O.  But I'm not sure you should post her picture here unless she wants you to.

[DerMax]

They shouldn't be called "Weekly Updates".

[phed]

They shouldn't be called "Weekly Updates".

They were weekly...

Now I'm scared that time is cyclic

[LoC_TR]

They were weekly...

Now I'm scared that time is cyclic

**UPDATE**

Something is possible in the future. - Vana

[The_Silencer]

**UPDATE**

Something is possible in the future. - Vana

Vana?

 

Vimana? Vanaglory? ... actually just kidding... now seriously..

 

Is Mr. Vana in here? ... .)

[phed]

Sorry, didn't mean to fan the flames, just a little joke...

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