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[KingJono]

I've been doing some research and I've discovered a rather disheartening fact about the MWO economy. When you join a game with a mech and then leave during the load screen, you end up (about 10 minutes later) gaining approx. 25k c-bills. Not much, right? WRONG

All in all it takes about 30-45 seconds to search a game then load up. If you immediately leave, then repeat the process with all mechs you own, plus all trial mechs, then in about 10 minutes time you will find yourself 25k richer for each mech you did this with.

If you own ~10 mechs, add the 4 trial mechs, and that's 350k cbills every 15 or so minutes.

In the current economy these earnings actually OUTRANK those of the 1.5 games you could have played in that time @~100-150 cbills per match (no premium). Even in the old economy, with the shorter games, I'm still not sure that this wouldn't be the case.

I found this discovery quite discouraging, both in the legitimacy of trying to do well in matches for the sake of rewards, and for the idea that people might spend all their time online joining/leaving games with as many cheap mechs as possible, thus ruining games for others who are forced to play with gimped teams.

I suggest that PGI/IGP take a look at the current reward values for early disconnects, and also the economy in general, as I believe that the current system is relatively illogical.

[Morang]

It's an old song beginning from closed beta. Another variant of this is running like a headless chiken into enemy team and dying quickly while collecting spotting and assist bonuses. When there was repair and rearm cost, it was done with trial mechs (they were free to r&r back then too). PGI states that this is an exploit and promised to ban for this, dunno if they really do, as I currently have no need to grind.

[Sprouticus]

Yea, that is a good way to get banned. When someone is doing it regularly, it gets noticed. And reported.

I suppose if you only do it once in a while, it might run under the radar. But honestly that level won't change the economy much.