Maybe you're right with the unhealthy fixation, though I have to admit I would also have quite some problems to motivate me for this setting if the LyrCom would get outright wiped from the face of the IS as conclusion of the Melissa II queen of all wastrels arc.
Technically your faction is in exactly the same position as the Federated Suns. Melissa should have known better than to think she could tame the clans. Taking her domestic wolves for granted. But she paid an ultimate price for that. The Lyran commonwealth is bleeding territory faster than the Suns and had less territory to bleed. With far less Sea Fox support. Luckily the clans all seem to be pointed towards Terra and the republic for now.
What bugged me about Kitsune's comment simply was the attitude that he implied. My stance on this equals rather "If there's a supposed nonvocal majority and you have no data about it, then don't presume to know what they think or even speak for them as a whole."
And I think that is a fair point.
My comment was a response to another players assertion that the responses we were receiving in this TRO thread were by a vocal minority rather than the majority of Federated Suns players who just weren't representing themselves. What was nice to see was the reaction to the original post where there was a surge of passionate and excited Federated Suns players that are thrilled by the new setting or at least up to accepting the challenge.
It wasn't an assumption of knowing the statistics of the player bases opinions.
Battletech is a commercial venture, but it seems to be a passion project to the people running it. David White put alot of effort into making the illustrations, Several people put alot of effort into writing the stats and record sheets and even more people put the book together. A startling amount of them post on these very boards!
So its really depressing to see all of that hard work and passion arrive to such a frosty reception. The writing, the art, the layouts and the mechanics all have alot of care behind them. The idea that the effort and enthusiam behind a book made for us fans is atrocious.
After the response from Davion fans its become obvious that a select minority use any information granted to them as confirmation bias that the setting is against them and that a particular stellar entity (out of the two attacking them, the other of which seems largely ignored) is a favorite. Which was an elephant in the room that seemed to need to be addressed. But apparently has been being addressed for a long time. Its a toxic opinion and unfair for lurkers of the boards or any board reader to only see that and not see the proud and steadfast factions responses. Without being contested it was easy to perceive as being the only opinion. I'm satisfied with this outcome. Happy and proud of the boards Davion fans.
I am appreciative to all the people who made this really amazing technical readout for us... and dearly hope that nobody actually bothers to respond to this post because all the voices of reasons who knew this argument shouldn't have happened are correct. Now I know that too. But I'm very happy to know the other side exists.
My curiousity sated and not having meant to offend with percieved statistical knowledge. I'm going to go back to trying to convince Nova Cat fans that Kisho will come through for them. :)
