From wew@magician.larc.nasa.gov Mon Sep 30 14:08:37 EDT 1996
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From: wew@magician.larc.nasa.gov (William E. Ward)
Newsgroups: rec.games.mecha
Subject: Re: MW2: Mercs Random Missions/Instant Action??
Date: 30 Sep 1996 15:27:25 GMT
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In article <01bbae5c$1756a840$5ef0a3c6@darinsun>, "Darin Sunley" <umsunley@cc.umanitoba.ca> writes:
> In all the reviews of Mercs I have yet to see one simple piece of
> information that is
> probably going to determine how much I wanna buy it. MY question is this:
> 
> Are there random missions a la Mechwarrior 1?

Yes, in Instant Action (random battles) and in the Campaign (with ECON)
you may get random battles (well, not completely random... there is some
background to them, but they are optional, and not done in the non-ECON)
that can earn you extra bucks... they are never worth big bucks though, 
and can still get you dead.... also, you have to pay attention to the
dates so you don't miss the campaigns you HAVE to do to advance in the
game....

> My dream interface would be a set up like Privateer, where there are
> campaign missions, but you van also split off from the campaign at any
> point and just do a randomly generated contract (again a la MW1) to earn
> more money, then return to the campaign. Does ANYTHING even remotely
> resembling this exist in Mercs (Activision's web page seems to imply it.)
> and, if so, how did they implement it. 
> 
> All the reports on potential bugs in the game are great and informative,
> but I wanna know what they DID, not what they did wrong.
> 
> </RANT>
> 
> Please respond here or /w email
> 
> Darin Sunley
> umsunley@cc.umanitoba.ca
> 

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			William Ward
			The Rare Mech Times
			http://www.cs.odu.edu/~ward_w/btech.html