[quote name='Kyone Akashi' timestamp='1350098347' post='1193928']

Ikka-san compiled the information from a recent PC Gamer article over at the Kurita forums. As you gaijin will not have access to our secure communication channels, I will (with the ISF's permission) quote it for your pleasure:

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Endless Space
Over 3,000 planets will make up MWO's version of the Inner Sphere, 10% of which will be open for conquest. This galaxy forms the game's persistent metagame map. A separate instance of the galaxy map will exist on each MWO server region.

A Slice of the Pie
The ownership of fringe worlds is determined by points accumulated over time by members of factions. Border worlds, on the other hand, are battled on only by mercs. Acting on the behalf of factions, MWO automatically sets bounties on border planets.

Outsourcing
As a border planet's bounty approaches its expiration date, mercenary corps place monetary bids on these contracts in C-bills, MWO's non-cash in-game currency. The lowest bid earns the right to battle for the planet.

Fight!
The mercenary corp competes in a single or series of scheduled matches against another merc corp representing the planet's owner. Piranha is still determining how match scheduling will be handled.

Conquest!
The winning merc corp gains or retains occupation rights to the world, and earns the benefit of a C-bill allowance, salvage, and other minor bonuses for controlling the planet. The faction that employs them now owns the world.

Groups:

Mercenary Corps: Independent player-run groups.
Factions: Canon groups like House Kurita and the Draconis Combine. Populated by players. Their initial strategy/leadership in CW will be guided by developers, then eventually handed off to elected players.
Clans: Biding their time; invading summer 2013. Certain to have an impact on CW when they do.

Planets

Core: Canon planets, untouchable by players, controlled by the developers.
Border: Merc vs Merc battlegrounds. Mercenary corps bid for the right to fight for border worlds on behalf of factions.
Fringe: Faction vs Faction battlegrounds. Fought over exclusively by faction players (not mercenary corps).

From the main article

Interestingly, Piranha will be the ones plotting the plans of the game's factions, at least at first: "We're going to manage those units from a strategy point of view. We're going to say, 'House Kurita goes here, they're going to take over these planets, and these are the things they're interested in.' Our ultimate goal is to slowly give that power to the users, so that they can actually rank up and level up and gain enough loyalty points where they can elect a group of people to manage their House. Then that group will choose the targets for planetary control. That is the goal."
- Bryan Ekman, creative director.

Alongside factions are mercenary corps: player-run, independent groups. Mercenary leaders will be able to set their own structure, rules, ranking, and currency payout systems. "I use the analogy of a fishing boat captain up in Alaska, " says Ekman. "The captain might get 25 percent of the share. The deckhand gets 15. And then the greenhorn, he gets like two percent or something. It's truly up to the players how they want to share that and reward their membership."

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So, the already-mentioned difference between "active" mercenary companies and "passive" faction players would seem to be that merc gameplay is dominated by "guild vs guild" scheduled matches, whereas faction gameplay is somewhat more casual, with thousands upon thousands of House warriors just dropping right into the action at their own leisure, and if they manage to shift planetary control level from defender to attacker, the targeted world will switch ownership. I expect this would work similar to, for example, naval battles in Pirates of the Burning Sea putting zones into contention.

I do not believe merc players will be "stuck" with just scheduled matches, but perhaps individual merc players may only "lone wolf" it by randomly reinforcing some PUG rather than being able to choose who or what they fight for. Similarly, the original Community Warfare Q&A had Bryan mention that PGI would be looking into the possibility of player-run House units post-launch, which I would assume would work similar to the mercenary units (-> scheduled matches for Border Worlds) and possibly be a direct counter/mirror to them, just that they would maybe bid loyalty points rather than c-bills, and "garrison" a planet rather than "owning" it?

Potential conflicts with the canon regarding House units should be easily avoidable by restricting player-run units to sub-groups within established NPC-controlled regiments, so that players could, for example, form a specific company within a canon regiment, giving it a custom nickname that would be combined with the regiment's own ID.

Pure speculation, though!

I am certainly eager to hear more about Community Warfare as well. ^_^


http://mwomercs.com/forums/topic/36405-f...ritory-control/

“It’s just really difficult in a PC free-to-play game to have the community make content and decide how and which ways that content will go into the game,” he said. “[Modding] is something we’ve thought about and we keep thinking about. We’re looking into fan-made content that can be voted into the game. I think we even have a really small test case coming out soon with player unit decals. We’re putting a system in place where players can upload their own custom decals to our customer support team. And then we can approve the decals so they can actually be put into the game. So that’s kind of a first test, a first step to player-made content. We’ll see where it goes from there.”


http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/10/...-but-its-tough/

Weiteres aus dem PC Gamer Artikel (Interview mit DEV)

# 10 spielbare Fraktionen (aktuell 6 IS Häuser, heisst also 4 invading Clans ?)
# 3000 Planeten, davn 10 % durch Spieler eroberbar. (finde ich ein bisschen wenig nur 300 Planeten die durch alle!!! Fraktionen einnehmbar sind)
# Das Metagame wird auch getrennt (wenn die regionalen Server kommen)

@Fanatic du hast recht, dass das ein bisschen wenig ist, aber es ist nicht unrealistisch.

Zumindest kämpfen die in den Büchern nie um hunderte Planeten, sondern immer um einige wenige, mit besonderen Merkmalen.

Ich meine... Was bringt es einer Söldnereinheit, auf einem schwach besiedelten Agrarwelt zu sitzen, wo sie vllt im Monat einen Bruchteil an "Steuern" von dem bekommen, was ihnen ein normaler Auftrag einbringt? Ohne Munitions- oder Ersatzteilfabriken oder sonstige Technik, sind die meisten Planeten doch völlig wertlos.

Es ist halt jetzt die Frage, wie man die Planeten erobern kann und wie häufig sie angegriffen werden dürfen etc.

Außerdem lässt sich das ja sicher noch ändern und es ist auch die Frage, ob EU/US etc komplett getrennt werden oder nur Serverfarmen für besseren Ping aufgestellt werden.

10 Fraktionen... da ist die Frage, ob LoneWolves und Mercenaries eingerechnet sind oder nicht.

# Es geht sicherlich auch bei Merc Corps um die bragging rights, wenn man einen Planeten erobert und besitzt.
"Seht her wir haben den grössten E-Penis ihr Noobs..." etc.

# Wenn man Merc Corp und Lone Wolf als Fraktion zu zählt bleiben nur noch 2 Clans übrig als Fraktion.
In der 1.Invasionswelle waren aber 4 Clans beteiligt, da würde das mit den 10 Fraktionen schon eher passen. http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Clan_Invasion

Häuser: Davion, Steiner, Marik, Drachen, Capellaner, Rasalhague.
Andere Organisationen (must have) ComStar, WOB, wobei WOB erst ein wenig später dran sein könnte....
Söldner
tja....da ist für Claner wohl kein Platz mehr, es sei denn Claner gelten insgesamt als eine Fraktion....

Was ja auch irgendwie zutrifft.
Der IL-Khan spricht für alles Clan-Stämme.
(Bin da kein Experte)

Glaube nicht das die DEVS die Clans als 1 Fraktion machen. Dann könnte man ja auch die IS Häuser als 1 Fraktion machen.

Ich denke Comstar und WoB werden neutrale Fraktionen, weswegen sie nicht dazu gezählt werden.

4 Clans ist wahrscheinlich, fragt sich halt nur, wie man Mercs und LWs bezeichnen will. Im Endeffekt stellen sie auch "Fraktionen" dar. Aber die Zahl der Fraktionen ist ja nicht in Diamant gemeisselt und kann jederzeit geändert werden^^

War es nicht so das ggf. auch die ein oder andere Merc Unit (Wolf Dragoons, Kell Hounds, etc.) übernommen wird und vielleicht teilweise als Fraktion gilt?

Ich schätze, dass sich die Devs die großen und bekannten Söldndergruppen gegen fremden Zugriff sichern...

Ich bin so wie so gespannt darauf wie die des mit den Hauseinheiten machen wollen. Wird man da einfach "reingeschubst" oder wie ist das?