CincyBattletech

Answering your questions in order:

1.  There aren't any free parking lots near the convention center, so yes you will need to pay for parking.  Parking is generally $5-$10 per day depending on which lot you decide to park in.

2.  The convention itself is open from roughly noon on Wednesday until roughly 6:00 p.m. on Sunday.  The exhibition hall is open from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday and is open from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Sunday.  Basically the vendor area is only open from 10:00 to 6:00, but the con itself is open 24 hours a day.

3.  Bringing a copy of TacOps never hurts.

4.  The $5 day pass only allows you access to the exhibition hall.  If you want to participate in events, then you need to actually buy a badge for that day.  I don't know what their pricing scheme for a one day badge is this year, but I would expect it to be in the $20-$40 range.  I would expect to spend about $12-$20 on event tickets for a day of gaming.  Food at the convention center and attached hotel is both crappy and overpriced.  The convention center itself is located in the club district and there is a major counter culture music festival going on only a couple blocks away from the convention center at the same time as Origins, so expect to deal with a lot of traffic and drunk people if you attempt to leave the convention center around 10:00 p.m.-2:00 a.m. on Friday or Saturday.

1.)  no big surprise there, the price looks reasonable enough
2.)  So i can get in earlier depending on traffic and such, excellent.
3.)  Good call
4.)  $35, and doing that as we speak.

thanks for the info.

Planning a day trip to Origins for Saturday the 24th.

Do you have to pay for parking?  The only thing i see for sure, 5 bucks to get in, and it costs additional money for the official events.

According to the website, doors open at 10 right?  That means vendors start at 10 I assume, first thing i want to do is hit up the CGL booth for stuff.

It closes at 6, unless you are in an official event, or something about adult something or other.  That wasn't real clear, can anyone shed light on that?

For official events, bring myself, Total Warfare, pencils, and dice.  Anything else?

And any helpful tips advice or comments, I'm open to ideas and suggestions.

Thanks folks!

Where in the world did you find all of that?

Slowly getting stuff back into Skunk Werks, and I remembered doing this one some time back.  PPU showed a the TC got it's hands on some of the better Feddie tech.  Heres an uprated Jinggau in that same flavor.

inggau JN-G10TC

Mass: 65 tons
Tech Base: Inner Sphere
Chassis Config: Biped
Rules Level: Tournament Legal
Era: Clan Invasion
Tech Rating/Era Availability: E/X-X-E
Production Year: 3067
Cost: 14,320,075 C-Bills
Battle Value: 1,917

Chassis: Unknown Endo-Steel
Power Plant: Unknown 325 Fusion XL Engine
Walking Speed: 54.0 km/h
Maximum Speed: 86.4 km/h
Jump Jets: Unknown
    Jump Capacity: 150 meters
Armor: Unknown Standard Armor
Armament:
    1  Rotary AC/5
    4  ER Medium Lasers
    1  Medium Pulse Laser
Manufacturer: Unknown
    Primary Factory: Unknown
Communications System: Unknown
Targeting and Tracking System: Unknown
===============================================================================
Equipment           Type                         Rating                   Mass 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Internal Structure: Endo-Steel                   104 points                3.50
    Internal Locations: 9 LT, 5 RT
Engine:             XL Fusion Engine             325                      12.00
    Walking MP: 5
    Running MP: 8
    Jumping MP: 5 Standard
    Jump Jet Locations: 1 CT, 2 LL, 2 RL                                   5.00
Heat Sinks:         Double Heat Sink             13(26)                    3.00
Gyro:               Standard                                               4.00
Cockpit:            Standard                                               3.00
    Actuators:      L: SH+UA    R: SH+UA
Armor:              Standard Armor               AV - 184                 11.50

                                                      Internal       Armor     
                                                      Structure      Factor     
                                                Head     3            9         
                                        Center Torso     21           28       
                                 Center Torso (rear)                  9         
                                           L/R Torso     15           24       
                                    L/R Torso (rear)                  6         
                                             L/R Arm     10           17       
                                             L/R Leg     15           22       

================================================================================
Equipment                                 Location    Heat    Critical    Mass 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Medium Pulse Laser                           RA        4         1         2.00
Rotary AC/5                                  RA        1         6        10.00
4 ER Medium Lasers                           LA        20        4         4.00
@Rotary AC/5 (60)                            RA        -         3         3.00
                                            Free Critical Slots: 12

BattleForce Statistics
MV      S (+0)  M (+2)  L (+4)  E (+6)   Wt.   Ov   Armor:      6    Points: 19
5j         4       4       0       0      3     1   Structure:  3
Special Abilities: SRCH, ES, SOA




One more day, one more day, one more day, one more.

Bullocks, guess i can't use them for Saturday.

Grabbity?  Oh I gotta go look this one up.   

Oh the evil plans I am working on for this.  Cleveland shall whup some ass.  Or fall in water, one of those two.