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[Proxzerk]

Do people sell Mechs or is it better to just keep a collection of all of the chassis in the game?

What seeded this question is that currently I am grinding through the Ravens and when thinking about my next mech, leaning towards a K2 Cat, I kick around waiting until the Ravens are maxed and then selling one of the Ravens, or spend the MC and grab a new bay. Concern comes in with the fact that this is an online game and receives updates; meaning that while I may not enjoy the RVN-2X right now, some weapons or tech could get a tweak making it better and I'd kick myself in the *** later.

Thoughts?

[SjurWarEagle]

Personally I'm collecting mechs, Mechbays aren't that expensive and this is my way to contribute to the develop of the game.

[Snowcrow]

Nothing wrong with keeping your mechs.
Personally, I'd rather have a shorter grind for my next mech than having a mech I never use.

[MeiSooHaityu]

Depends on the mech. Some mechs I am not crazy about, but I need them for the XP tree. I normally just end up selling them when I am done leveling the tree up.

Then again, if PGI expands the tree or does some overhauls to it, I may need to buy the mechs again.

[Felicitatem Parco]

I sold a few Mechs because I only wanted them to Level-up a specific chassis variant. For example, after unlocking the basic skills across all Ravens, I then unlocked all 4 Elite skills and the Module slot on just my Raven 3L, then sold my Raven 2X and 4X before even unlocking a single Elite skill on either of them. I really don't anticipate wanting to use them very much in the future because I have a Jenner-D that obsolesces the 2X and I only used the 4X RavUrbanMech build for fun (AC/20 and SL) while leveling it... not as a tactical war machine.

If you do sell a Variant, and then buy it back later, then it will RETAIN all the XP you previously invested in it, so all you lose is the equipment/structural Upgrades you purchased for it (DHS, Endosteel, etc.). You'll also have to repurchase the stock engine that comes with it, though, too.. so that can cost a little more c-bills than necessary.

Edited by Prosperity Park, 13 May 2013 - 07:49 AM.

[RussianWolf]

mechbays are $1.20 each. Seems cheaper to keep the unused chassis just in case.

[armyof1]

Some variants are so bad it makes me glad to sell and never have to see it again.

[Spheroid]

You should sell your Raven, 2.4 million C-bills is a trivial grind. I feel being a collector of various chassis classes is more satisfying than owning every variant. I don't see myself buying back a Cicada-3C anytime soon.

[One Medic Army]

I've never sold any of my mechs, I've got 30 mechbays, all filled.
Of course, I've never bought anything as bad as a spider K, non-ECM raven, or MG cicada.

[RussianWolf]

Devs have mentioned that their will be some kind of bonus for number of mechs you own in the future......

[Multitallented]

This happened to me a few times. I decided to stop selling mechs. I now have over 80 mechs.

[armyof1]

RussianWolf, on 13 May 2013 - 12:30 PM, said:

Devs have mentioned that their will be some kind of bonus for number of mechs you own in the future......

Isn't that just because of the dropship mode, where you can pick a couple of mechs that you can "respawn" in and join the match again? The mechs I've sold I never want to play again, so I can't say it matters to me.

[Johnny Reb]

I have sold plenty of mechs back. My goal is to own at least one of each chassis mastered. If I ever want any of them back the c-bill cost of all but the assault class are easy to do.

[Levi Porphyrogenitus]

I have only ever sold one mech, and that was because I decided that the hard points on it were just not what I wanted and I only needed to have three variants (it was my AS7-K, and I replaced it with my RS).

In general, though, I recommend holding on to every mech you buy and just getting mech bays. They're not that expensive, and you lose a ton of money by selling mechs. Plus, as you said, if the game balance ever changes to make it fun to drive something that you don't like currently, you'd basically have to pay for the thing twice. Unless you've maxed out your mech bays, or you decide that you really don't like playing something (for instance if it's too slow for you, or has a hard point arrangement that you don't like, or whatever), then it's generally not worth it to sell the mech.

[Roughneck45]

I keep them all.

I have no qualms buying as many mechbays as i need, and the c-bill return for mechs is pitiful, so i just hang on to them.

Besides, you never know when something will get buffed/nerfed and be needed for the new FOTM.

[Appogee]

I follow the Pokemon philosophy.

[DegeneratePervert]

I buy three variants that I think I'll enjoy, level them all up through basic, and sell the one I liked the least.

[MuonNeutrino]

In most cases, I fall on the 'keep' side of things. As people have pointed out, mechbays are pretty cheap (definitely the most reasonably priced MC item), and you never know when some change might breathe new life into a mech you never liked before.

I only ever sold a couple mechs. One was my CN9-AL, which I only bought because I wanted to finish off my CN9-A and sold because I hadn't really realized yet how much I liked centurions. I rebought it not long after and actually tricked it out this time instead of running it as cheap as possible, and it's been one of my favorite rides ever since. The only other mechs I ever sold were the two other ravens, and in that case I just wanted the emotional satisfaction of watching those incredibly-painful-to-level mechs go 'poof' and vanish into the digital abyss. If some miracle occurs and I ever want one again they'd be cheap to rebuy, and I decided that the satisfaction of deleting them outweighed that extremely remote possibility.

[Vassago Rain]

I sell the bad ones, and keep the good ones.

[Rashhaverak]

I used to sell mechs I thought that I wouldn't use, but now I've realized that I can find a use for nearly all of them and I've been slowly buying them back.