Wait, I have a question about this thread. It's um breaking NDA to even mention Fight Club let alone being in Fight Club am I right?
Not anymore, at least for the people who were Founders, as they made the Founders known on their site via a tag in the forum posts, and publicly stated that all Founders received Beta access by X date. So by inference, everyone knows that all founders have access...
As for everything else, aside from the Jenner, Hunchback, Catapult, and Atlas, any other mechs that people talk about I believe are possibly subject to being in breach of the NDA. Weapons/configs are also questionable, but then again, the Battletech Universe is very well known and defined, so people know that there are things like small lasers, medium lasers, autocannons, etc...
As for other things, there is a lot of grey area. I think everyone realizes this is still beta, and that things still being balanced. The point right now is to see if people come up with configs which are just too unbalanced. Personally, I feel that energy weapons in general are too weak due to the current heat settings, but that is just me (as a result, I almost never use them, except for my Jenner since I can't carry enough ammo on the Jenner to kill more than 1-2 mechs if I used SRMs).