Adding Mek quirks

[silmeril]

Is there a way to add quirks to a custom mek without having to select them each megamek game?

[Epic]

add quirks via the hangar

[silmeril]

I've tried that and then saved the campaign, but every time I reliad the campaign, the quirks are gone on my custom meks. All the canon meks have their quirks just fine though. How do I add the quirks and make them stick?

[Netzilla]

I've tried that and then saved the campaign, but every time I reliad the campaign, the quirks are gone on my custom meks. All the canon meks have their quirks just fine though. How do I add the quirks and make them stick?

You should report that as a bug, because MHQ should be remembering any added quirks.  As a work-around, though, you can add entries to the defaultQuirks.xml file (under mmconf).

[Epic]

hmmm... add the quirk to the mek file then, as above.  Now you're making me wonder if my quirks haven't been sticking...

[Jayof9s]

They stick just fine - though you have turn quirks on in both the MHQ campaign file and the megamek settings that you set through MHQ for the individual campaign. Without both turned on you can add quirks but they won't save.

[silmeril]

That was the issue. I never went into the Megamek settings in MekHQ. Never even though that I needed too. I just reset all my game settings when I started a megamek game from MekHQ. Now I shouldn't have to do that. Thanks for pointing that out to me

[Jayof9s]

That was the issue. I never went into the Megamek settings in MekHQ. Never even though that I needed too. I just reset all my game settings when I started a megamek game from MekHQ. Now I shouldn't have to do that. Thanks for pointing that out to me

No problem, it is far from obvious and I ran into issues with it myself for a while when it first got added several releases back.