Our Plan for the Steam Release

Gentlemen,

I am sure you are all aware, but MWO will be hitting Steam on 10 Dec.  For most of us as far as current game play, this will have little to no effect on us (also, if you plan to buy stuff for MWO, do it through the website, PGI loses profit on Steam purchases).  What this does bring up, however, is that there will be a major influx of new players to a game that brutalizes them with the grind and no info on builds.  There are only going to be two kinds of new players who survive this initial stage: those who are die-hard BattleTech fans who can use Google and those who join an unit and get told to use Google/MetaMechs to find 'mechs and builds.  Our primary mission on and around the 10th will be to get as many of these new players to try and join our unit so that they do survive the initial grind and can see why this game is so special to us all.  Of course, the standard rule applies for recruiting: any member who brings in a trainee who then completes the trainee period will receive 1 month of a private channel per new member.

Sounds good