Posted 18 August 2013 - 01:25 PM
Your "supporting argument" doesn't support your thesis. Your thesis is "There should be a way to get new mech bays without having to spend real world money on MC." You support this by saying "I don't want to spend $30 on a mech." These two statements have absolutely nothing to do with each other.
A new mech bay is 300 MC. The least expensive MC package is $6.95 (I'm using USD figures because I live in the US, but feel free to do these conversions on your own). For that $6.95, you get 1250 MC. This breaks down to $0.005 (one half of one US cent) per MC. That adds up to $1.67 per mech bay for 4 mech bays ($6.68), and you still have 50 MC ($0.27) left over to use for either converting mech XP to GXP (best saved for a double XP conversion sale), or, you can hang onto it for other uses later (buy the $6.95 MC package 3 more times and instead of getting 12 mech bays you can get 13 if you hang onto the extra 50 MC every time, for example).
If you buy the most expensive MC package ($99.95 for 25,000 MC), your per MC cost drops to $0.004 (that's 4/10 of a penny), which doesn't seem like much, but it means that when you buy a mech bay at 300 MC, it only costs you $1.20, which is a $0.47 cent savings per mech bay.
Also, unless you want a hero or champion mech, which can only be purchased using MC, you never have to spend so much as a real world penny on the purchase of the mech itself. So long as you have an open mech bay, you can buy almost every mech in the game using CBills, which cost you nothing but time, instead of MC. So this "I don't want to spend $30 on a mech" argument is nonsense anyway. You don't have to spend any real money on a mech. If you don't want to spend real money on a mech bay, you may have to sell a mech that you have for CBills, but you don't have to spend real money on it. If you don't want to sell off any mechs, a new, empty mech bay will cost you somewhere between $1.20 and $1.67. You can then still buy the new mech with CBills, and it will have cost you, at most, $1.67.
TL:DR version: Mech bays are cheap. Spend MC on mech bays and buy mechs with CBills.