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[Vassago Rain]

Does this mean that, potentially, we can have almost-hero DDCs and other staple mechs?

[Sephlock]

Whatever brings in the cash.

[Vassago Rain]

Sephlock, on 03 April 2013 - 12:51 PM, said:

Whatever brings in the cash.

I want like this really cool medal collection that I put on a mech. So even though I'll never try to catch 'em all, I'd give them money from upgrading the few mechs I do play.

[Nicholas Carlyle]

As I read the April Creative Address or whatever, and I go down the list of 5 or so things that have already been patched and thus don't apply. And I see the HSR for ballistics (the one really good thing in the list)...then I see this.

And it's just so obvious we've really changed direction in this game towards making as much money as possible at the expense of everything else.

[Vassago Rain]

Nicholas Carlyle, on 03 April 2013 - 12:59 PM, said:

As I read the April Creative Address or whatever, and I go down the list of 5 or so things that have already been patched and thus don't apply. And I see the HSR for ballistics (the one really good thing in the list)...then I see this.

And it's just so obvious we've really changed direction in this game towards making as much money as possible at the expense of everything else.

But making money and making my playing experience better are good for all people involved.

[Nicholas Carlyle]

Vassago Rain, on 03 April 2013 - 01:00 PM, said:

But making money and making my playing experience better are good for all people involved.

Does 5% exp bonus really make your playing experience better?

[matux]

Yeah this is something i have no interest in buying, unless its a 5% to GXP, its useless as you still have to convert that unused XP (which i have several metric **** tons of), then spending even more MC to convert to GXP

[TruePoindexter]

I have a Champion for you:


http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Champion

...It's ugly honestly...

[Nicholas Carlyle]

Most of the non-unseen/reseen mechs were pretty bad.

[Taemien]

Lets not, and say we did.

[Sybreed]

I know someone once suggested that we could "hero-ise" our standard mechs so they have C-Bill bonuses as well. Could be those champion mechs he's talking about...

It's a good idea IMO and an easy way for PGI to make some money.

It could also be something else entirely. We'll see.

[Vassago Rain]

Nicholas Carlyle, on 03 April 2013 - 01:01 PM, said:

Does 5% exp bonus really make your playing experience better?

If I could stack it with +5% GXP gain, +10% c-bill gain, custom head parts, star league star in my forehead, Jem stars around my eyes, and so on, I would.

I'm not gonna buy a package hero mech, but I would blow 40 dollars making a mech I like more fit to my needs.

[Nicholas Carlyle]

Vassago Rain, on 03 April 2013 - 01:06 PM, said:

If I could stack it with +5% GXP gain, +10% c-bill gain, custom head parts, star league star in my forehead, Jem stars around my eyes, and so on, I would.

I'm not gonna buy a package hero mech, but I would blow 40 dollars making a mech I like more fit to my needs.

I don't think it's what you think it is. Or at least that's not how I read it.

It's a version of a current mech, with the bonus, that you buy for MC (but it costs less MC than the normal version would).

[FrostCollar]

TruePoindexter, on 03 April 2013 - 01:03 PM, said:

I have a Champion for you:


http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Champion

...It's ugly honestly...

You're just jealous of that sweet moonwalk.

[Rizzelbizzeg]

+5% XP is a bonus to GXP because GXP is a flat 5% of XP.

on a normal 500 XP win, the normal mech gets 25 GXP, the champ gets 525 XP and 26.25 GXP.

SUUUUUPER BOOOOOST!

[RAGE PRO]

5% useless boost xp sucks, better if they do bonus gxp or revamp.

[AlexEss]

i see no problem with this. By the sound of it it is a "grind-mech" for XP that requires almost no work from the dev team and give people who feel the XP grind to be a bit boring (there have been a decent amount of requests for XP bonus stuff since we went open beta..)

But i guess it is goof that people have something new to harp about. =P

[TruePoindexter]

FrostCollar, on 03 April 2013 - 01:11 PM, said:

You're just jealous of that sweet moonwalk.

Jealous that I don't get to pilot an overweight Macross destroid.

[Demos]

Why not a c-bill boost?
When Hero Mechs have 30%, and Founders 20%, why not 10% for the 'Champion'?

But 5% additional XP? That have to be a mech I deliberately want (and do not have in my inventory) and have to be a big discount of MCs... But they will sell it with a 10% discount...

[Arcturious]

I'm surprised this was an exp boost and not Cbill (or both). Most of the historical posts on this sort of idea have all been requests for adding small Cbill awards to the standard variants.

I would love to be able to turn my 5N into a hero ish mech. Add 10% Cbill, 10% exp and I'd buy that.

Also as noted above, any exp bonus is already by default a GEXP bonus, its just negligible.