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[Barkem Squirrel]

Remember, paint your Wang green. They will never know what you are, until it is too late.

[luxebo]

MrMadguy, on 28 November 2014 - 10:02 AM, said:

When you see green mech, that actually means, that this is:
1) Newbie
2) New mech
3) Trial mech
4) Player, who don't care about this game
5) Player, who can't afford 0.56$ to buy single-time camo and 3$ to buy some colors (i.e. child?)

In all cases you know, that this player will most likely underperform. And, therefore, when you see, that the whole your team looks like this and when you're losing again, again and again due to this - then something is definitely wrong with MM.

Ain't you a mad guy.

Imma start dropping in every single trial mech this weekend. Right. Hey I like olive darb colors ok?

Then people will start saying how op my trials with sexy green paint all over it and people in their rich hellbringers with neon pink colors will put on green cause they jelly.

[LT. HARDCASE]

I honestly think people are fooling themselves, if they believe the default camo makes them less of a target. Even below average players target by threat level and opportunity, and not the brightness of a player's paint scheme..

[Mothykins]

Kevjack, on 28 November 2014 - 01:48 PM, said:

I honestly think people are fooling themselves, if they believe the default camo makes them less of a target. Even below average players target by threat level and opportunity, and not the brightness of a player's paint scheme..

I dunno, bright Orange Stalker draws more fire than the Dire beside it in olive.

[Brody319]

Kevjack, on 28 November 2014 - 01:48 PM, said:

I honestly think people are fooling themselves, if they believe the default camo makes them less of a target. Even below average players target by threat level and opportunity, and not the brightness of a player's paint scheme..

2 Whale standing side by side. 1 Gold and 1 default colors. Both are primes. How do you tell which one is the newer guy in the trial whale, and which one actually plays the game a decent amount?

2 stalkers, one is white, the other is black. You are in a side area of Terra Therma, both are not moving at the moment. which one do you notice first?

2 Atlases, 1 painted with a skeleton pattern, bright red, and neon blue colors. the other is a default green. both equal distance, same loadout. which one do you assume is more skilled and thus more of a threat to you?

[Ovion]

There remain 6 free colours, one of which is provided by default.

None of which are that bad.

I own and use all of them.
Hell, Basic Red is imo one of the better reds available.
The Basic Orange is pretty decent too, and the Basic Blue is a solid mid-blue.

Plus it remains true, that players in Basic / Default Green are viewed as newer / less skilled than those with colours.

This is in part that players with colours / camo will generally have played enough to decide to put money in (or ground out the c-bills for 1-2 Basic Colours).
And it's mostly due to the fact that players with colours / camo will almost always have played longer than those without.
There'll be outliers that have played as much with basic green mechs, but as a general rule the above does hold.

Being Basic Green can be a double edged sword - either you'll be targetted first (seen as an easy target), or ignored (seen as a low priority target, less dangerous than others).

Edited by Ovion, 28 November 2014 - 02:00 PM.

[ollo]

Barkem Squirrel, on 28 November 2014 - 01:38 PM, said:

Remember, paint your Wang green. They will never know what you are, until it is too late.

That sounds kinda wrong and at the same time strangely... strange.

[Scratx]

Actually, I have a lot of colors and even a pattern or two... most of my mechs are unpainted.

Why?

I'm lazy, and until I like a mech enough to make an effort to make it pretty, I don't bother.

So, really, stock camo means nothing.

[August55]

If It was up to me, the default camo would be no camo and just metal grey.

[Pootan]

August55, on 28 November 2014 - 02:29 PM, said:

If It was up to me, the default camo would be no camo and just metal grey.

But you need a coat to prevent rust and corrosion

[Scratx]

Pootan, on 28 November 2014 - 02:55 PM, said:

But you need a coat to prevent rust and corrosion

Here, let me coat your mech for you...

[hybrid black]

Chemie, on 28 November 2014 - 09:43 AM, said:

actually, I think it means PGI is charging way too much of color/camo.

If they did not make it a $10 exercise to paint your mech, maybe more people would buy into it?

How about for $1, you can put any camo/paint on your single mech? I got 40 mechs, that's decent monetization IMHO

there are colors for cbills you know

[Diznitch]

There are colors for CBills. They are basic, but they are not green. I use them on my mechs because, well, green.

[Piney II]

At 800 meters plus, you can't see the camo.

Inside of 500 meters, the camo doesn't matter a bit - you're usually fighting for your life.

Tell me why cool paint jobs matter besides the "check me out" status at spawn?

Edited by Piney, 28 November 2014 - 03:44 PM.

[Hillslam]

The level of stupid in this thread is epic.

1 - The renderer draws ALL mechs in this game grey past ~100m.
ALL MECHS, ALL COLORS. Red green blue orange white fuscia mauve lime lemon brown pink cyan purple pokka dot... -> GREY

2 - See #1 (don't believe me, go try it for yourself. all colors transition to grey as you open the distance)

3 - Paint your mech whatever the heck color you want because IT WON'T MATTER in game. If you think it does you need to spend more time improving your driving and shooting, because your suckage has been noted by the OP.

Edited by Hillslam, 28 November 2014 - 03:50 PM.

[Diznitch]

Yeah, color fades pretty fast. I've noticed patterns hold longer, but not color. I like the colors, it makes the mech shiny and pretty. ROFL. That said I don't spend much on them at all. I bought camo black, and a few others but not a lot. The basic colors are not bad, for Cbills

[mogs01gt]

ill hop in my green mech and carry you ppl.. colors dont mean ****!

Edited by mogs01gt, 28 November 2014 - 04:42 PM.

[BigFatGator]

MrMadguy, on 28 November 2014 - 09:38 AM, said:

"Green team": when you see this - you know, that you're screwed.

Idiot. All your lancemates are always in green doritos.

[Wintersdark]

Yeah, color isn't drawn far at all, and even then has no bearing on skill.

Anyone who thinks color actually camouflages you in mwo doesn't pay enough attention. The distances in which you can see the colors are so short that it's totally irrelevant.

[Bluttrunken]

MrMadguy, on 28 November 2014 - 10:02 AM, said:

When you see green mech, that actually means, that this is:
1) Newbie
2) New mech
3) Trial mech
4) Player, who don't care about this game
5) Player, who can't afford 0.56$ to buy single-time camo and 3$ to buy some colors (i.e. child?)

In all cases you know, that this player will most likely underperform. And, therefore, when you see, that the whole your team looks like this and when you're losing again, again and again due to this - then something is definitely wrong with MM.

~.~ I only buy camo with leftovers of mech purchases. So far this netted me 2 camos and I hesitate to buy more. Especially colors are pretty expensive imo. Most camo look **** too. Permanent camo is a rip-off..I bought a whole clan wave 2, a Stormcrow a la carte, 3 heroes... What the heck?

Edited by k05h3lk1n, 28 November 2014 - 06:14 PM.