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Getting MechCommander running on Windows 10 with minimal crashing (for me)

MHLoppy — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:30:53 +0000

Before I forget what I did, I’m infodumping how I personally (eventually) got MechCommander Gold (MechCommander 1 + Desperate Measures expansion) singleplayer running nicely on my own Windows 10 system. These instructions were written for me-and-friends with that level of detail in mind. No effort has been made in the instructions to support any other …

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Something seems horribly, horribly wrong with LB-X Autocannon damage in MechCommander

MHLoppy — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:42:56 +0000

Desperate Measures, the expansion for MechCommander 1, introduced LB-X versions of Autocannons. Exactly how they work is a bit nebulous, but combining the in-game information, the official strategy guide, and player-created guides, it seems that each shot either connects or doesn’t (there aren’t separate hit chance calculations), and then if the shot does hit, damage …

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What’s up with the Commando and Uller (Kit Fox)’s movement speed in MechCommander?

MHLoppy — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:03:34 +0000

With the years-long CBP Alpha 10 done I finally had some spare time/energy and so sat down to revisit MechCommander 1, something I haven’t played since I was a kid (and very, very bad at it). After first playing through much of the original campaign in my revisit, I noticed that even though all of …

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CBP Alpha 10 Patch Notes

MHLoppy — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 09:37:02 +0000

After slightly too much work and slightly too many whiplash-inducing pivots about what the patch’s contents would be, what formally started in 2023 as a small bugfix patch but which slowly evolved into a gargantuan patch has now been split up slightly so that a cut-down implementation of Alpha 10 can be released and players …

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Red Patriots getting craft from Forage techs is probably a bug

MHLoppy — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 07:58:47 +0000

RoN has a lot of undocumented gameplay elements where it’s ambiguous whether the in-game effect is a bug or not. Using all available context, we can try to make subjective judgement calls about which of these are probably bugs and which of these are probably intentional (just with missing tooltip info). Some examples of this: …

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Quick notes: Accidentally adding new nations to the game

MHLoppy — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 11:34:31 +0000

A few days ago I had half an hour free while burger was messaging me about adding new nations to the game, so I decided to see what error message I would get if I tried to add new nations to the game. It appears I have failed the task successfully. As it turns out, …

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The probably-outdated formula for RoN’s score calculations from Beta 2

MHLoppy — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 14:43:54 +0000

Ye olde’ Beta 2 release includes a lot of interesting things, including a score.xls file which notes how scores are calculated. Since nobody has bothered to share that anywhere except on an advertising platform, I figured I’d dump its contents here. I’ve named the categories myself, but these are grouped in the spreadsheet already. I …

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Fossil fuel subsidies in Australia FY2024-25: some notes

MHLoppy — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 08:19:05 +0000

As part of a uni unit on public policy, I had to complete a 750 word policy briefing based on the report Fossil fuel subsidies in Australia 2025 by The Australia Institute. Instead of trying to be maximally efficient and doing a good job relatively quickly, I made the mistake of getting genuinely interested in …

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Christmas comedy-drama special

MHLoppy — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:39:59 +0000

As we approach Christmas, in keeping with the tradition of giving each other gifts, we have been gifted a comedy spectacle. I hope you enjoy this archived content as much I did. This seems to be the sequel to Wait, why did you leave the RoN Discord? Update 2024-12-27: there has since been a large …

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I simulated the RNG of 4,294,967,295 1v1 random nation matchups so that you don’t have to

MHLoppy — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 17:12:15 +0000

A few months ago I published the results of 165 recorded 1v1 nation matchups where both players had random nation selected. After several years of on-and-off effort, yesterday I stayed up til past noon cracking the RNG RoN uses to decide random nations, allowing me to pull a Vugi and know the actual nation picked …

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