BattleTech

Online War

Basics
- All factions are at war with each other.
- Planets offer contracts from the owner of the planet, locals and each bordering faction.
- Doing contracts for a faction raises their percentage of control and lower the percentage of the others.
- The faction with the most control owns the planet.
- If you get high rep with factions they offer you priority contracts that pay better and lead you to currently contested planets.
- The amount of % a contract moves the control is based on skulls. Each half skull earns 2% of control. 

IT Stuff(How does it work)
- Whenever the game updates the map it makes a request to the Roguetech server and updates your lokal map based on the current state of the war.
- After each mission your computer send the result of the mission to the server and that calculates the new map.
- There is no personal information transferred and no mission result can be tracked back to a certain user.

Maps
We have 2 maps showing the current state of the war outside the game
Map1
Map2

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16 comments

  1. AidenCorvus
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    Is there a chance in the future we can get an option to disable the online war but still play the sandbox campaign? It causes the game to hang as it update the map. I tried playing offline but it sill tries to load then throws an error cannot load online map. It's a neat idea but for me it is not a value add. I am sure others love it.
    1. Linerunner
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      This^

      I'd like to play at work, but I can't jump on the company network playing Battletech, and I'm sick and tired of the campaign and want the big map career mode. I'm fine with it being static. If there's a simple way to remove the call for the map update I can do myself please point me to the appropriate file(s) and what lines to remove and I'll do the work myself if that's easier.
    2. Morphyum
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      Remove persistent map client then either by disableing in mod.json or removeing the folder.

      You will lose prio missions and map updates, also all opfor will be random faction
    3. Linerunner
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      Sounds great, but there is no obvious "persistent map client" folder in Mods. What folder contains the .json you're referring to?
  2. recklessangel
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    It doesn't say anywhere, so I have to ask: "Is it required?"
    1. ZlothZloth
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      There's an option to leave it out when you install.
    2. Morphyum
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      Not really, i think this option also removes the whole ISM right now and puts you back into campaign.
  3. clyde642
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    I am kinda new to the mod thing and rogue tech is my first try. I got it running and love it. But I am a bit confused. So I am running up against all kinds of mechs and there seems to be no timeline. Can I set this up to be in a certain timeline? Is this an option or is it all just open? I assume this is something I missed setting up the game, I know I am winging it.
    1. Morphyum
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      First of all not sure what this question ahs to do with the Online War? Also not sure what timeline you look for?
  4. sen8
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    Do I need the persistent server option 4 online war?
    1. Morphyum
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      yes that's exactly what it is
  5. Urst1
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    Is there a version of the 2nd map for the year 3067?
    1. Morphyum
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      no
    2. Urst1
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      Oh well...
  6. KaisKovash696
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    awesome best be getting some attacks to help the mighty dragon slay those fedcom rats :P
  7. Shaposhnikov
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    Awesome \o/!!! Finally. I made a thankful tweet, but it's in russian :P Thank you anyways.
    https://twitter.com/MechWarriorFans/status/1034907345934077966