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[Macbrea]

I oddly make the most money as on my spider.  I take off running about the battlefield like a crazed maniac. I Have my weapons set on cycle.  I basically spray fire a mech then move on to the next mech. If one is looking cripple or has a component missing a try to spray that portion of the mech in a hope to get a random kill. But otherwise, I am simply tagging them and running toward the next mech.

This seems to net me the most experience and c-bills. My highest so far was 2300 xp and 197k c-bills. That being with a premium bonus for the day plus first victory.

Edited by Macbrea, 28 August 2013 - 05:53 AM.

[CGB Behemoth]

180-250k on Firebrand with prem. 2PPC+Gauss.

[BoPop]

hunchback is tuff bro. super fun mech tho I have 3 mastered but i'd paid some dues in mediums and lights by the time I played HB's. specific play style for the hunchback. excellent peekaboo mech, but 4sp is a lil different play style than the other two (little zoom and boom for them, the way I play).

but as far as cbills go I gotta tell ya I can make as much if not more in my spider as I can my atlas. two totally different play styles but still capable of earning some decent cbills. (ofcourse the spider is a lil more prone to a face palm here and there) but even the atlas can get wripped to shreds quick by a determined lance.

ya just gotta work the mech the way it needs to be worked, and don't always go for kills, there are good cbills in kill assists and component destructions but savior kill bonuses are also nice change. cycle through targets and hunt for weak components. play sneakier, leechier.

[xengk]

Bront, on 27 August 2013 - 11:07 AM, said:

Just to clarify, that's a kill when you get someone who was base or cap point capping something you own very reciently.
[/list]

ah, thanks for the correction.

[Losobal]

I was wondering, do you get rewards even if you discon from a match? I mean I see people discon at the start, or immediately after death. Your mech remains locked until the match is over but then what...you get the rewards win/loss even if you don't see the match over screen?

So then theoretically, if you've got I dunno, 50+ mechs, couldn't you just login to a match, discon, and either pick up win or loss cash reward when its done, in the meantime, just jump into a new mech new match, discon, repeat.

So 25000 for win or loss, no other cbills cause you didn't actually DO anything, maybe a premium/hero boost. Then repeat that like...20 times in a row, or however many games you can get into before there aren't any more open to at the moment.

[Bront]

Losobal, on 28 August 2013 - 11:30 AM, said:

I was wondering, do you get rewards even if you discon from a match? I mean I see people discon at the start, or immediately after death.  Your mech remains locked until the match is over but then what...you get the rewards win/loss even if you don't see the match over screen?

So then theoretically, if you've got I dunno, 50+ mechs, couldn't you just login to a match, discon, and either pick up win or loss cash reward when its done, in the meantime, just jump into a new mech new match, discon, repeat.

So 25000 for win or loss, no other cbills cause you didn't actually DO anything, maybe a premium/hero boost.  Then repeat that like...20 times in a row, or however many games you can get into before there aren't any more open to at the moment.

According to the lastest official statement, they suggest you disconnect once you die after trying.  (simply disconnecting regularly will get you banned)

Edited by Bront, 28 August 2013 - 11:47 AM.

[Hexenhammer]

Best mech for farming cbills is one you have fun playing.

Premium time helps, so does a hero mech. But if you don't like the mech you are using you'll hate it.
Do it in a mech you love and you can go all day long and not care.

[Ronan]

The two posts about "play the mech you like" are gold. If you're having fun, cbills will just accumulate.

Otherwise, I'll add my "+1" to the previous good suggestions. Be a team player. Help your lance. Hit R. Gang up on a target. Take mixed weapons so you can hit lots of targets at different ranges. Whenever possible, save a teammate from getting killed. Savior Bonus is huge! Use the Target Info Gathering module, use R to target the mech you are shooting at, and aim for the weakened sections -- Component Destroyed is cbills!

I've got some disposable income and I find this game addictive, even without CW and UI2 yet. So I've bought a bunch of hero mechs... but a non-hero mech that earned well was the Centurion CN-9D. I had the two zombie med lasers (in center torso), lrm 10, ac10, and was able to hit things all over. The AC10 was good at taking out weakened (red) sections, and the lasers were low heat always-available weapons. I don't remember if I started that mech with LRM5, then saved cbills to get endo and dhs to make room for the lrm10.

But again, play the mechs that are fun for you! I like mediums in general, so I roll in those. I'm low on cbills myself, but that's because I keep buying modules to actually leave in my mechs. You can not spend that many cbills by just getting one set of modules to move from mech to mech.

Someone asked about match rewards and disconnecting early. It is my understanding that you will get paid anything you had earned up to the time you disconnect. So if you get a kill, and your team eventually gets a win, you'll get paid for those even if you disco right after dying. If you also put lasers on four other enemy mechs, who were alive when you disconnect but get killed later, you won't get paid for those assists. If you spectate to the end, you'll get paid for those assists. That make sense?

Edited by Ronan, 28 August 2013 - 03:53 PM.

[Hexenhammer]

Thats my understanding as well.
Disconnect at the start? Get nothing.
Disconnect in the middle? You get what you earned.
After death? Everything.

[Koniving]

Defense and Savior kills make the really good bucks.

For a single AC/2 round I achieved 6,900 6 times over, that's 41,400 just for one bullet + component destruction + the kill. Now, I'm not saying go around stealing kills. But when your team mates engage an enemy, help out. Especially if your buddies appear to be losing the fight. If your teammate's hurting and you did a shot within 10 seconds of that enemy dying, you get savior bonuses for as many people as That Guy hit within the last 10 to 20-ish seconds.

Defense pays fairly well too. They also stack.

[Y2kHippy]

Hero Mechs will earn C-Bills faster but the best Mech for earning C-Bills is one that you enjoy and it also helps to win more often than not. If you are in a Mech you enjoy you will not find it a grind but you will enjoy just playing. If you also have a bunch of friendly/social people to drop with that also helps getting the thoughts off grinding. It is possible to exit a game as soon as you die and start a new game with a different Mech if you are solo dropping but you will find yourself taking unnecessary risks, dying quicker than normal and thus loosing far more games. So in theory you can increase your earnings you are actually not.

I am lucky that my favorite Mech to play just happens to be a Hero Mech and I just enjoy playing it all day long. I do not keep an eye on my C-Bills, I focus more on playing the game and enjoying the social aspect of playing with friends.

[Eaerie]

I have to agree, unless you are on a strict time restraint, play the one you have fun and the CBills roll in. if you are having fun and playing to your mechs strengths the CBills seem to add up a lot faster than if you are trying to "grind" for it in something you dont enjoy playing as much.
premium time would be a bonus (you can see how much "extra" you would have made at match end with premium) but it take real money. Hero mechs are the same.

[Losobal]

I estimate I pull in about a million a day (or sit down session). I'd say my average is around high 100k (hero+premium), sometimes i faaaaiiil and end up with like 60k, other times 240k+

Lrms are useful for tagging everyone with peppered fire so you can potentially get kill assists later in the match. Though with ECM and quick drops of targetting (even with max decay buff), I'm tempted to pull out my missiles and use something else. My heavy metal is kinda stuck either running as a missile+energy, or energy+gauss.

[Corison]

Hexenhammer, on 28 August 2013 - 03:37 PM, said:

Thats my understanding as well.
Disconnect at the start? Get nothing.
Disconnect in the middle? You get what you earned.
After death? Everything.

Close.
Disconnect/Die Early (Anti-Farming Code) - Get Nothing
Disconnect in the middle? Not 100% sure but I suspect everything up to but nothing post.
Disconnect At Death - Get everything UP until when you disconnect + Win/Loss. No further assist/kills

[Hexenhammer]

Corison, on 29 August 2013 - 01:37 PM, said:

Close.
Disconnect/Die Early (Anti-Farming Code) - Get Nothing
Disconnect in the middle? Not 100% sure but I suspect everything up to but nothing post.
Disconnect At Death - Get everything UP until when you disconnect + Win/Loss. No further assist/kills

Right. You have to be alive to get assist/kills/spots etc.

[Flying Blind]

I have been getting 150k+ payouts in my hbk-4p with 3 ERLL. Just shoot all the enemies and win. Kill assists really pays out a ton of space bucks.

Edited by Flying Blind, 29 August 2013 - 02:39 PM.

[Sgt Slavery]

I am excusing in advance for not having rad the whole thread. I get the most C-Bills when I just play from friday evening to saturday morning (or beyond ) with beer and cigarettes.... It's a lot of fun too... If you have friends who stick with you 'til at least 2 am.....

[Ruhkil]

LRM boats are my best money makers partilly because I naturally run away from enemy mechs when piloting them as opposed to brawling where i die very quickly. Any long range build can be good but since the meta at the moment involves ppcs and ac5s which are moderately long range weapons you may not fair so well trying to co-exist with them if you are not skilled with whatever direct fire weapons you are using.

[Parappaman]

Necroposting with a bad advice to boot is just plain wrong.

Get in a 4 men and buy Premium Time to print Cbills more efficiently, no matter the mech.

[Ruhkil]

Parappaman, on 03 March 2014 - 08:26 AM, said:

Necroposting with a bad advice to boot is just plain wrong.

Get in a 4 men and buy Premium Time to print Cbills more efficiently, no matter the mech.

its not bad advice i regularly pull down 140-160k cbills a match in my lrm boats and do best in them K/D wise. If it does not work for the OP that is a different story.