What do Command Rights do?

[AdaC]

More noob questions: What do Command Rights in the contracts thing do? I can renegotiate them, but does it have any bearing on the game at all?

[NickAragua]

Basically, it influences how many and what type of AI buddies come with you on missions. Integrated = 2 AI buddies, House = 1 AI buddy, Liaison = 1 player-controlled buddy, Independent = zip.

You lose 1 VP per lost AI buddy in a battle. How you define "lost" is up to you, I personally define it as "mech is not recoverable or mechwarrior is dead", but it's entirely up to you.

[AdaC]

Thank you. Looks like Liaison is best for me :D The AI tends to charge when it shouldn't.

[pfarland]

Yeah, I found out LONG ago, that Princess doesn't agree with my sense of tactics so I refuse anything less than a Liaison.

[PuppyLikesLaserPointers]

Windchild already made a solution for this; on the following MekHQ release it have an option to take control of the liaisons. I am not the part of the dev team so I don't aware of the ETA of the next version, but it was already implemented so it surely available on the new version.

[txsoldier94]

Just do a change owner in the lobby.

[Simon Landmine]

Thank you. Looks like Liaison is best for me :D The AI tends to charge when it shouldn't.

You can also tweak Princess' configuration settings to get the AI to "chill the heck out" (well, OK, maybe only a little) - although it is still pretty unlikely to do with the 'mechs what you would do with them under your direct control.