Ever get pissed and fire a pilot?

[The Kurgan]

I just fired a pilot for an epic fail that really pissed me off. Wish I could have put a bullet in his head.

You guys ever fire a pilot when the hand of RNGeus toches a pilot with a huge hit chance% and makes him miss at a critical moment?

♥♥♥♥ this guy, he can hit the bricks.

[Kenshi Wolf]

No mostly cause i don't blame pi lots for RNG but I definitely wouldn't reload a save if they died next mission

[Coyote]

I save locusts for this reason.
Put them in a locust and let the enemies murder them. mwahahaha

[Scouten]

no but i usually ditch starting pilots because they never get used and sit there eating money

[Cutlass Jack]

Um no. I wouldn't fire a pilot for a bad move I ordered him to do. That would be silly.

The only thing I ever fired a pilot for is being uncustomizable. Yeah you, Medusa.

[The Kurgan]

Originally posted by Cutlass Jack:

Um no. I wouldn't fire a pilot for a bad move I ordered him to do. That would be silly.

The only thing I ever fired a pilot for is being uncustomizable. Yeah you, Medusa.

Oh I feel you there

[Boneyard Bob]

I fired one for aquiring one too many negative traits. I hated to do it too, he was a well leveled warrior, but the combo of different negs made him a huge liability both on and off the battlefield.

[wesnef]

No.

I've fired pilots for not fitting a group theme (I did an all-female group one campaign), and I've fired them for picking up negative traits from events (Behemoth, you drunkard!)

But not for bad luck.

[Boneyard Bob]

I do get where you're coming from though, RR. In my first run through Skyrim I put an arrow in the back of Faendal's head for triggering one too many traps on me while trying to stealth my way through dungeon crawls.

[titanopteryx]

Originally posted by Boneyard Bob:

I do get where you're coming from though, RR. In my first run through Skyrim I put an arrow in the back of Faendal's head for triggering one too many traps on me while trying to stealth my way through dungeon crawls.

You can't use a follower when using stealth gameplay in skyrim... Anyway, I should look at my traits on my pilots. I never thought to fire a pilot because of traits.

[Boneyard Bob]

Originally posted by titanopteryx:

You can't use a follower when using stealth gameplay in skyrim... Anyway, I should look at my traits on my pilots. I never thought to fire a pilot because of traits.

Yeah, Faendal learned that lesson the hard way. I soloed the rest of that game.

In my mech pilot's case it was a strange fluke, because each new neg trait seemed to compound the ill effects of the others. He had an unholy trifecta of negative traits that when combined not only turned a once deadly pilot into a dud, but also ate up the lion's share of the little travel vingettes with negative consequences.

[coyotius]

Originally posted by Cutlass Jack:

Um no. I wouldn't fire a pilot for a bad move I ordered him to do. That would be silly.

The only thing I ever fired a pilot for is being uncustomizable. Yeah you, Medusa.

Just FYI, if you do a search of the root Battletech folder for "Medusa portrait" you'l get a .json file that you can open in any text editor. About halfway down are all the settings for hair, skin, lighting, clothing, facing, etc. You'll have to play around to find out how the numbers coordinate with what you want, but this is a super easy mod that doesn't mess up your saved file or get nuked by an upgrade. (You can do this with all four of the starting pilots)

I like all my pilots to have the same lighting and facing so I tweaked them, only took a few minutes.

As always, save a copy of the original file just in case.

[Cutlass Jack]

Originally posted by coyotius:

Originally posted by Cutlass Jack:

Um no. I wouldn't fire a pilot for a bad move I ordered him to do. That would be silly.

The only thing I ever fired a pilot for is being uncustomizable. Yeah you, Medusa.

Just FYI, if you do a search of the root Battletech folder for "Medusa portrait" you'l get a .json file that you can open in any text editor. About halfway down are all the settings for hair, skin, lighting, clothing, facing, etc. You'll have to play around to find out how the numbers coordinate with what you want, but this is a super easy mod that doesn't mess up your saved file or get nuked by an upgrade. (You can do this with all four of the starting pilots)

I like all my pilots to have the same lighting and facing so I tweaked them, only took a few minutes.

As always, save a copy of the original file just in case.

Yeah but that still doesn't fix his gender confused callsign. :P

Anyway its vastly less work to just fire any of the starter pilots and replace them with customizable ones. Its not like they brings anything unique to the table.

Except Glitch. She always gets to stay because she makes me smile.

[coyotius]

Well, there is that... : )

Not to beat a dead mech, but there is a way to mod the callsign too (still too much work in most cases).

As a side note, it seems like the starting pilots end up having a lower pay/skill ratio as they progress (around C1300/pt). I started paying attention to this when I was just breaking even each month and looking to cut costs. The other Ronin and KS backers are really high (like C2000/pt), so I canned them. This may have been fixed in the update, don't know for sure yet.

[Twelvefield]

I fire pilots for being my spaniel. I can't stand that voice anymore.

As for Skyrim, I absolutely fell in love with Lydia. I was distraught when I accidentally turned her into a pile of ash using magic, and she died on a field of ash making her remains very difficult to find.

My ode to Lydia:

https://shyluk.blogspot.com/2014/06/972-happy-birthday-to-me-5.html

[Sword_of_Light]

I have a running commentary in my head when stupid stuff happens - like I forget to turn back on some of my weapons when my heat has dropped, so I imagine one of the other mechwarriors shouting over the comm to that pilot "you forgot to turn your weapons on, noob!"

But the worst I've ever done is rename one of my pilots to something insulting. His first two missions both ended with ejections, so I gave him the new callsign "Punchout". Pity he didnt live up to the name - he was eventually legged and cored, fatally.

I will say, though, that if I encounter a mechwarrior with a specific voice - the I Am A Voice Actor Pretending To Be A Nerd voice - I wont hire him. Yeah, your stats are the best...but that voice....and I'd fire him if that voice was role up for my initial career crew.