11 replies to this topic

[Deacon412]

I'm proposing a new mode separate from the standard game play that's a high risk high reward where mechs are bought and any thing destroyed or damaged is lost and needs to be repaired if the mech is destroyed then its lost as well....while salvaged weapons and components are added to an inventory that can be kept or sold.

[Mudhutwarrior]

So your sitting on a bankroll. Got it.

[PenitentTangent]

too flipping expensive.

[Syllogy]

And how do you propose to distribute the salvaged parts?

Its hard to split a single 350XL 12 ways.

[ShotgunWillie]

Where's the poll for this so I can vote "No"?

[HammerSwarm]

in concept it's not the worst idea I've ever heard.

Then again I thought about it and after 2 seconds of thinking I decided that you're trolling us. I mean no one would want to play the game as is now with the mandatory DHS tax, the low cbill rewards, and the alpha build meta, if that 6 ppc shot you just took would kill your mech forever.

I mean did you even think through how this would play in an actual game before you posted this?

[Mechteric]

It would only work if you only went into combat after years of intense training then after graduating from mechwarrior school you get shipped to the frontlines. After a few months of interstellar travel your dropship burns planetside to your first battle. You hop into your first assigned mech, which as a Private class you only get a Commando. 3 minutes into your first battle you get sniped by PPCs and your team loses, you are cashless and dispossessed.

Start up a new account and start a new pilot.

Edited by CapperDeluxe, 11 September 2013 - 10:34 AM.

[blinkin]

Syllogy, on 11 September 2013 - 08:30 AM, said:

And how do you propose to distribute the salvaged parts?

Its hard to split a single 350XL 12 ways.

no there are 12 crits there. each player gets one crit slot, BUT you don't know which crit slot you get so you have to collect all 12 to win!

on a more serious note i would like a punishing mode like the one offered in the OP, but it would require a major rework and a great deal of balancing to the point that you are almost creating another separate game. i find something like this is very unlikely to even be considered at this point by any sane developer.

[Oppresor]

deacon412, on 10 September 2013 - 05:14 PM, said:

I'm proposing a new mode separate from the standard game play that's a high risk high reward where mechs are bought and any thing destroyed or damaged is lost and needs to be repaired if the mech is destroyed then its lost as well....while salvaged weapons and components are added to an inventory that can be kept or sold.

I like this! Some of the others have said it's too expensive, but this is only the case if you are buying your Mechs with MC, I don't, I go the C-bill route.

Your idea is much more realistic; if you get taken out for real, there is a real loss. It would stop MechWarrior's charging in like a WW1 wave assault.

What I would like to see is a new Salvage Module that actually lets you drag the remains of an enemy Mech back to your base or Dropship. This would then be added to your inventory or sold as scrap.

[Simbacca]

I disagree with the idea. For it even to work, the rewards would have to be fantastically high - something at least 10 times the current payouts.

And I suspect in this mode, most individuals would only commit 60 ton or lighter mechs in order to minimize potential loss of C-Bills.

[Groveller]

There'd need to be some way to retreat from battle. There'd also have to be some kind of gimpy free trial mech - maybe if you own no mechs there could be a dice roll on a whole bunch of pre-created mechs? It'd be one way of adding variety to builds, and lowering average tonnage.

And here, have some commas: ,,,,,,,,,,,

[Roland]

I'd play a game mode like this. I proposed the same idea a long time ago.

I'm willing to risk my mech for higher rewards..