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You Can Now Purchase C-Bills For Mc!


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#1 InnerSphereNews

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Posted 22 April 2014 - 02:39 PM

We know it can be a hassle to scrape up all those C-Bills from your enemies on the battlefield. Good news, ComStar will now issue C-Bills when you redeem MC in the Store! Head on over to the Bundles section of the Store to see all available packages and stop worrying about collecting those leftover scraps from the spoils of war.


#2 Deathlike

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Posted 22 April 2014 - 02:40 PM

Welcome for being late to the party.

Buying AND selling a Cicada-2A Champion in its entirety is much easier in acquiring C-bills.

Edited by Deathlike, 22 April 2014 - 02:40 PM.


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Posted 22 April 2014 - 02:42 PM

Bad deal is bad.

Why not just peg 1 MC = (X) Cbills and have it translate across the board?

Instead you are just making up arbitrary numbers for the value of buying Cbills based off of the component resale of items from purchased mechs.

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Posted 22 April 2014 - 02:48 PM

Who is dumb enough to participate in this rip off? I'll just keep doing what I'm doing normally. If there is a mech I want and dont feel like grinding for weeks since I have limited time I'll purchase mc, otherwise I'll stick with just playing the game and getting cbills the natural way.

#5 Homeless Bill

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Posted 22 April 2014 - 03:28 PM

Don't be fooled.

#6 Praehotec8

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Posted 22 April 2014 - 03:35 PM

Isn't ComStar rather like the evil empire? No wonder the prices seem wrong...

#7 Bartholomew bartholomew

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Posted 22 April 2014 - 03:41 PM

Still say there should have been a 1.5m Cbill package.

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Posted 22 April 2014 - 03:50 PM

DOUBLE THE C-BILLS

#9 Malcolm Vordermark

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Posted 22 April 2014 - 03:59 PM

I think this is relevant information.

I have no opinion on selling C-bills for MC but I would like people to know the deals.

Edited by Rouken, 22 April 2014 - 03:59 PM.


#10 xarax123

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Posted 22 April 2014 - 04:01 PM

4000 MC for 6 million c-bills seems awfully expensive.

#11 GoManGo

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Posted 22 April 2014 - 04:05 PM

I might ask are you not missing a few zero's after (6,500,000) like this? (65,000,000)=4000 MC?
(24,000,000)=1600 MC? or (11,000,000)=800 MC?

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Edited by miSs, 23 April 2014 - 09:33 AM.
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#12 Sug

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Posted 22 April 2014 - 04:10 PM

Why....why....why....must everything be so poorly done?


Stop.

Double, at the very least, the amount of Cbills you're giving players for real money, cut out the MC to Cbill conversion altogether, remove MC prices on normal mechs, and you'll have something.

#13 CHH Badkarma

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Posted 22 April 2014 - 04:12 PM

WhoooHooo! No there is no reason to slave away to buy the cool weapons and gear. Just plop down the ol CC. Lame. MC I could understand, but Cbills? Weaksauce pgi.

#14 Mechteric

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Posted 22 April 2014 - 04:21 PM

There's no point in buying CBills directly, their buying power is based on the selling of mechs not on the purchasing of them. So you're getting ripped off.


It would be reasonable for someone to want to purchase 10 million CBills, with which they could purchase a mech and outfit it. But the way it is now to not get ripped off you have to buy the mech with MC, then buy another mech that is on discount with MC and sell it. Makes no sense.

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Posted 22 April 2014 - 04:23 PM

View PostHomeless Bill, on 22 April 2014 - 03:28 PM, said:


Just including this for completeness not because I agree with one side of the argument or the other. I'm not sure what percentage of the population is both cbill poor and has bays to spare but:

If you don't have any free bays (and selling one of your Mechs to make room is inadvisable because you've already paid the DHS tax), you can't buy and sell the champion Jenner for less than 1750 MC. (Champion Spider would be 1535 minimum).

So if your MC balance is low, it is conceivable that at least one of these packages could be the best rate you can get.

#16 Mechteric

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Posted 22 April 2014 - 04:26 PM

One final (slightly off topic) suggestion, make it so any mech purchased with MC comes with their own free mech bay. Its just the right thing to do.

#17 Strum Wealh

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Posted 22 April 2014 - 04:28 PM

View PostMarack Drock, on 22 April 2014 - 02:41 PM, said:

4000 MC can buy me a mech worth 13mil cbills (aka Awesome variant something can't remember).

According to MWO Wiki, the AWS-9M is 4,615 MC for a 11,534,852 c-bill 'Mech.
However, reselling that 'Mech will (IIRC) only net you something like 50% of the C-bill value (e.g. ~5,767,426 c-bills), which is a worse ratio than any of the c-bill packages.
  • AWS-9M C-bill ratio (assuming 50% resale value): 1249.71 c-bills per MC
  • 800 MC package: 1375 c-bills per MC
  • 1600 MC package: 1500 c-bills per MC
  • 4000 MC package: 1625 c-bills per MC
As pointed out in the thread linked by Rouken, there are several 'Mechs with better MC to c-bill conversion ratios (namely, the Champion versions of the Lights & the Cicada).

Edited by Strum Wealh, 22 April 2014 - 04:29 PM.


#18 GoManGo

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Posted 22 April 2014 - 04:30 PM

WOW its like $16.00 USD for (6,500,000) Cbills crap that does not even but a crap mech so $32.00 USD=12,500,000 cbills = 1 good mech? this is so funny ok everyone just----look below for what you get.Come on PGI I could see 4000 MC for (65,000,000) Cbills get real give us lube to soften the blow.

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Edited by miSs, 23 April 2014 - 09:34 AM.
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#19 NocturnalBeast

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Posted 22 April 2014 - 04:34 PM

Champion Cicada and Champion Jenner are still the best for MC to Chill conversion.

#20 Nacon

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Posted 22 April 2014 - 04:49 PM

So now it's pay to win?

Great...





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