Hey there,

If you are not yet a registered BWO player, but want to take part in the upcoming Solaris VII tournament from 6th of Decdember to 13th of December, here is a simple guide how to get in:

You need to register on BWO page. This is mandatory because the Solaris system works with Battlemech and Pilot Battle Value – so we need a pilot account to store values to. After registering, browse to command Klick the button The lower button is for you You are inside the Solaris lobby now. You need to select a faction, that you dedicate your fights to Once a faction is selected, time to buy your first Mech. Every player starts out with a 60.000 C-Bills starting money Once you clicked the “Hangar” button, you will be presented with available Mechs to buy. Some of them have a red line, this is the BV trend so far. When you bought a Mech, it is time to return to the lobby. The lobby can be reached by clicking on “Solaris” Once back, you can either open a Fight with your newly bought Mech or join an already open room. Lets assume you want to start a fight. Click the “open fight” button beneath your Mech A new room opens and sets you into team 1. This room is now visible for all other playery in the lobby. sure you have noticed the refresh room list button already. So here is what the other players have to do to join your room. Clicking the refresh button will check for newly opened game rooms and give the player a room list. In the room list, players can see what settings are set for the fight. They can join team 1 or team 2, depending on their own faction allegiance. So a Liao player for example cannot join team 2, if team 1 already is an other Liao player. If you opened a room, you have the editor powers, which means you can select the game mode, map and BV limit. Althoug the league sets random values at the opening of the room, you can change them. In the “Terms” field, you can enter a free description like “Davion vs Kurita 3v3 wanted” or whatever. The other players in the lobby cann see this description in their room list and join you then. Once 2 teams have formed up and all settings have been negotiated, the room opener can click the “Launch” button. This removes the room from the open rooms list and locks it for other players. Before a room is locked, every player can change his Mech, in order to keep the given BV limit. Staying below the BV limit pays off in higher rewards after a match. After a room is locked, you fight the battle inside MWO and after that, the room opener selects the winning team. Now with the report done, the first player in team 2 can click the check for report button and will get the report shown. If everything is right, he confirms the outcome. after the report is confirmed, the room will close and you can return to lobby to open a new one or join an already open one. The match outcome and BV changes etc. can be found in the log messages on top of the lobby. Once you played a while, you might want to check your performance. Your personal Mechbased stats are under the “Career” link. The overall tournament table is to be found directly on the league starting page under League/Solaris stats

Of course, you can click around in the other sections of the command tool as well and have a look at the map and the other screens. You will not get values in many of them but still a good glimpse about what is going on and what the planetary warfare is all about.

Feel free to leave your feedback in our forums and of course feel free to start your own full membership with your own unit in our Battletech Warfare system. We would be glad to see you all on the battlefield!

The tournament membership will terminate after the tournament is over. You will loose command tool access then but remain to be a registered user on the page, in case you want to create your own unit or join an existing one.

Please bear in mind, that the Solaris system is still kind of beta and sometimes a bit clumsy and not the nicest thing possible. Still, I do consider it stable enough for a lot of gaming and userfriendly enough to have fun with it.

But however, if you are a Java Script / CSS god or half god… feel free to join the programming team ( me ) to evolve this project and to make it the best it can be.

Thank you all for your interest and support.

Yours,

Grayson

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