TreeRol

Hi everyone. I've recently gotten back into BattleTech via MegaMek and MekHQ. I could pepper this community with questions about MekHQ, but I'm not sure this is the right place for all that. But I do have one important question I'd love to get your opinions on, and that is related to contract success.

My understanding right now is that to achieve Success in a contract, you need to fulfill all of the strategic objectives (listed in the Area of Operations) AND finish with a positive CVP score. Sometimes one of the objectives is that you must finish above a certain score (which is also indicated in the Briefing Room under the Victory Points section).

The question, then, is this: If a VP thres

First, my grading scale. I should note that I'm a bit of a tough grader.

A is Excellent

B is Good

C is Fine

D is Bad

F is Terrible

The leap from B+ to A- is probably the toughest one in my mind. I've been in this hobby a long time, and it's hard to crack the Excellent level. That said, C-grade games are perfectly fine, and B-grade games actually are good to very good. I just want to head off the inevitable "You said you liked it but you only gave it a B-. What gives?" I'd say most games I play tend to fit in the B- to C+ range. Anyway, here we go:

Arrival (no grade)

This is a Phil Eklund passion project - a very complex space adventure game. There are different elemental oceans,

I just noticed this behavior yesterday, and have just tested it this morning. I am using Spotify Web on Chrome. Shuffle has three modes: off, on, and Smart Shuffle. I noticed that Smart Shuffle would be on even though I explicitly do not set it to be on. Click (shuffle off), click (shuffle on). Then later I noticed it'd be on again.

So this morning, I tried: click (shuffle off), click (shuffle on). Then I watched. Thirty seconds later, Smart Shuffle turns back on. Every time. There's no avoiding it. Settings have no way to change it.

I'm not sure if anyone knows a way to change this, but at the very least I hope you can see this and know you're not losing your mind.

Reminder: I've split the 77 premade decks into 7 divisions of 11 decks each. I play each deck against each other deck, so each one plays every other one twice - once with me as the pilot, and once with the CPU as the pilot. (Note: seasons 1 and 2 had only 60 decks, so there were 6 divisions of 10 decks apiece.)

Deck: Vampire Lord

Colors: B

Theme: Changing power/toughness

Previous Results:

Season 10: Division 4 - T-4th

Season 9: Division 3 - 10th

Season 8: Division 3 - T-7th

Season 7: Division 2 - 10th

Season 6: Division 2 - 8th

Season 5: Division 2 - 4th

Season 4: Division 2 - T-7th

Season 3: Division 2 - 7th

Season 2*: Division 2 - T-3rd

Season 1*: Division 3 - 1st

Key Cards:

I generally just play Magic.exe (the duels, not the game itself), and I was able to delete all of the sounds EXCEPT the coin flip. Does anyone know which file that is and where to find it?

Reminder: I've split the 77 premade decks into 7 divisions of 11 decks each. I play each deck against each other deck, so each one plays every other one twice - once with me as the pilot, and once with the CPU as the pilot. (Note: seasons 1 and 2 had only 60 decks, so there were 6 divisions of 10 decks apiece.)

Deck: War Mage

Colors: R

Theme: Big Mana

Previous Results:

Season 10: Division 4 - T-4th

Season 9: Division 3 - 11th

Season 8: Division 3 - 3rd

Season 7: Division 3 - 4th

Season 6: Division 3 - 4th

Season 5: Division 3 - 5th

Season 4: Division 4 - 1st

Season 3: Division 4 - T-4th

Season 2*: Division 3 - T-7th

Season 1*: Division 4 - 1st

Key Cards: Fireball, Disintigrate

Reminder: I've split the 77 premade decks into 7 divisions of 11 decks each. I play each deck against each other deck, so each one plays every other one twice - once with me as the pilot, and once with the CPU as the pilot. (Note: seasons 1 and 2 had only 60 decks, so there were 6 divisions of 10 decks apiece.)

Deck: A Royal Pain

Colors: BG

Theme: Royal Assassin

Previous Results:

Season 10: Division 4 - T-6th

Season 9: Division 4 - 3rd

Season 8: Division 4 - 4th

Season 7: Division 4 - 8th

Season 6: Division 4 - 3rd

Season 5: Division 4 - T-8th

Season 4: Division 5 - 2nd

Season 3: Division 5 - 5th

Season 2*: Didn't play

Season 1*: Didn't play

Key Cards: Royal Assassin, Paralyze

Reminder: I've split the 77 premade decks into 7 divisions of 11 decks each. I play each deck against each other deck, so each one plays every other one twice - once with me as the pilot, and once with the CPU as the pilot. (Note: seasons 1 and 2 had only 60 decks, so there were 6 divisions of 10 decks apiece.)

Deck: Fire in the Sky

Colors: WR

Theme: Conversion

Previous Results:

Season 10: Division 4 - T-6th

Season 9: Division 4 - T-4th

Season 8: Division 4 - 9th

Season 7: Division 4 - 9th

Season 6: Division 5 - 2nd

Season 5: Division 5 - T-3rd

Season 4: Division 5 - T-3rd

Season 3: Division 6 - 1st

Season 2*: Didn't play

Season 1*: Didn't play

Key Cards: Serra Angel, Shivan D

Reminder: I've split the 77 premade decks into 7 divisions of 11 decks each. I play each deck against each other deck, so each one plays every other one twice - once with me as the pilot, and once with the CPU as the pilot. (Note: seasons 1 and 2 had only 60 decks, so there were 6 divisions of 10 decks apiece.)

Deck: Elementalist

Colors: UR

Theme: Elementals

Previous Results:

Season 10: Division 4 - 8th

Season 9: Division 4 - T-4th

Season 8: Division 5 - T-1st

Season 7: Division 6 - 2nd

Season 6: Division 6 - 6th

Season 5: Division 5 - 10th

Season 4: Division 6 - T-3rd

Season 3: Division 5 - 6th

Season 2*: Division 4 - 5th

Season 1*: Division 4 - 3rd

Key Cards: Water Elemental

Reminder: I've split the 77 premade decks into 7 divisions of 11 decks each. I play each deck against each other deck, so each one plays every other one twice - once with me as the pilot, and once with the CPU as the pilot.

Deck: Ethyl Merman

Colors: U

Theme: Creatures

Previous Results:

Season 10: Division 4 - 9th

Season 9: Division 4 - T-6th

Season 8: Division 4 - T-6th

Season 7: Division 5 - 2nd

Season 6: Division 5 - 9th

Season 5: Division 5 - 8th

Season 4: Division 5 - T-6th

Season 3: Division 5 - 4th

Season 2: Division 5 - 1st

Season 1: Division 5 - 5th

Key Cards: Lord of Atlantis

Overview:

I want this to be a merfolk deck, so badly. Although it does have some Merfolk o

Reminder: I've split the 77 premade decks into 7 divisions of 11 decks each. I play each deck against each other deck, so each one plays every other one twice - once with me as the pilot, and once with the CPU as the pilot.

Deck: Alt-A-Kesh - Blue Djinn

Colors: UBG

Theme: Skies

Previous Results:

Season 10: Division 5 - 1st

Season 9: Division 4 - 11th

Season 8: Division 5 - T-1st

Season 7: Division 5 - T-8th

Season 6: Division 5 - T-7th

Season 5: Division 4 - 11th

Season 4: Division 4 - T-3rd

Season 3: Division 3 - 11th

Season 2: Division 3 - T-1st

Season 1: Division 3 - 7th

Key Cards: Phantom Monster, Lord of the Pit

Overview:

Play a bunch of fliers. That's pretty much it. Y

Deck: Goblin Warlord

Colors: R

Theme: Goblins

Previous Results:

Season 10: Division 5 - 2nd

Season 9: Division 6 - T-1st

Season 8: Division 6 - T-3rd

Season 7: Division 6 - 3rd

Season 6: Division 6 - 5th

Season 5: Division 6 - T-4th

Season 4: Division 6 - T-6th

Season 3: Division 6 - T-6th

Season 2: Division 6 - 2nd

Season 1: Division 5 - T-9th

Key Cards: Goblin King, Keldon Warlord, Orcish Oriflamme

Overview:

You think you know what a Goblin deck looks like. Throw down a couple of quick gobbos on turns 1 and 2, a lord or two in the following turns, and smash face. This deck... is not that. Sure, if you're lucky you'll be able to go Mons on turn 1, Goblin Polka Band/Balloon B

Reminder: I've split the 77 premade decks into 7 divisions of 11 decks each. I play each deck against each other deck, so each one plays every other one twice - once with me as the pilot, and once with the CPU as the pilot.

Here are the results from Division 5 in Season 11 (which is my current season). The top two decks will be promoted to Division 4 next season, and the bottom two will be demoted.

Reminder: I've split the 77 premade decks into 7 divisions of 11 decks each. I play each deck against each other deck, so each one plays every other one twice - once with me as the pilot, and once with the CPU as the pilot.

Here are the results from Division 6 in Season 11 (which is my current season). The top two decks will be promoted to next season, and the bottom two will be demoted. When there's a tie I play the tied decks against each other twice, and repeat until there's a clear winner.