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[Anjian]

Bought a Trebuchet 7M. That is a lot of money for a medium mech, one of the most expensive ever along with the CN-9 D and the Treb that packs an XL300 (7K?) Anyway, I ended up selling the thing sans engine where I moved to another mech.

I don't have Pretty Baby and I will stay away from it. But I have not failed in any of my hero mech purchases: Yen Lo Wang, Firebrand, Heavy Metal, Misery, Dragon Slayer and now Protector. They all served me very well.

[Appogee]

Twice I have stupidly hit the ''Buy MC'' button instead of the ''Buy CBills'' button.

In both cases it was for some third version nondescript Mech, which I only needed in order to Master the chassis, and which I sold as soon as it was Basiced.

A complete waste of MC when I could have spent Cbills instead.

Edited by Appogee, 21 September 2013 - 01:18 AM.

[CGB Behemoth]

Founder Pack, Phoenix Pack, all prem-time,Pretty babe, Misery, Golden Boy, X-5.
Could say everything that cost me real money except Firebrand.

[John MatriX82]

Most expensive purchase? Hmm all those mechs that I outright know that on paper will suck and I buy at least one variant to prove my theory.

Following this I guess we can count Dragons, Awesomes, Trebuchets to an extent (I still own one), Kintaroes and Orion now are mentioned as the expensive mistakes (thankfully I've bought so far only a single Kintaro and only a single Orion and I've got rid of the first and will get rid of the latter as soon as I'll basic it out).


The most expensive mistake for me has been in terms of GXP (and due to a bug); during the first ever double XP weekend I reached master on my AWS 9M with like 21507 xp points so I unlocked the master module with mech xp, then I had to quit and go lunch.

When I logged in back I had a nice surprise: the game accounted 21507 GXP points for that unlock and NOT the mech xp, that turned out to be lower than expected (21468 but it was above 21500!). this happened in January, I'm still awaiting to have that GXP back since then..

[Sir Ratburger]

Put a 360 xl engine in an Atlas once, I died so easily and often because of one of my side torso's being knocked out that I had to switch back to a standard engine. It now resides in my mechbay doing nothing because I havent really got another mech that I can fit it in.

[AlexEss]

I bought a MC XL300 (meaning find the cheapest mech with a XL300 buy it, strip it and sell it) as i thought i had sold my XL 300 (sort of my go to engine) only to find that it was in a mech that usually does not have the XL300 in it... It was a decent waste of MC.. But then again i did not really have anything better to spend it on right now.

So here is the lesson kids.. don´t be lazy, or if you are going to be lazy at least take the time to go through all your mechs first. =P

[Bishop Steiner]

Sir Ratburger, on 21 September 2013 - 02:54 AM, said:

Put a 360 xl engine in an Atlas once, I died so easily and often because of one of my side torso's being knocked out that I had to switch back to a standard engine. It now resides in my mechbay doing nothing because I havent really got another mech that I can fit it in.

Your Victors will love you for owning it. As will any Dragons.

[Sir Ratburger]

Bishop Steiner, on 21 September 2013 - 05:43 AM, said:

Your Victors will love you for owning it. As will any Dragons.

Yeah I need to get some more mechbays and more mechs, bought the Overlord Phoenix package so saving up the cash for them as I'm sure I'm going to have to gut and rebuild most of them.

Oh yeah I almost fogot - another big waste of money and GXP was that useless and grainy zoom module... glad its 'slightly' more improved now but for that price I would expect a telesope that could see the hair on a flies ball bag from a few miles away.

[Wintersdark]

deanon, on 20 September 2013 - 08:20 PM, said:

I Bought a CTF.4x, Never got the damn thing to work, so sold it.
Then i had to buy it again when i realised that I needed 3 of same mech to get master.
So my biggest misstake was to actually sell my CTF-4X in the first place

But I actually got it to work,
These CTF need a lot of cash invested into them, specifically the 4X needed the biggest standard engine and upgraded structure to work at all for me, elite skills helps alot also, then they are rock solid.

If you buy a mech, and don't like it, always at least get your basics on it before you sell it. This way, you can still master that chassis type without having to re-buy the mech (you can get elites on another chassis in the same weight class to progress to master).

The 4X doesn't need a lot of cash invested, because the STD255 is (as far as engines go) dirt cheap. My problem with the chassis is that the 255 engine limit leaves the 4X extremely slow and cumbersome, while it's 4 ballistic points are stuck on low-slung arms. The JM6-S and JM6-DD are far superior machines. The slight tonnage advantage doesn't come close to making up for it's other flaws.

The other CTF's are much better, mind you. The Ilya and 3D in particular are amazing machines. But the 4X? Ewwwww.

Sir Ratburger, on 21 September 2013 - 06:20 AM, said:

Yeah I need to get some more mechbays and more mechs, bought the Overlord Phoenix package so saving up the cash for them as I'm sure I'm going to have to gut and rebuild most of them.

Oh yeah I almost fogot - another big waste of money and GXP was that useless and grainy zoom module... glad its 'slightly' more improved now but for that price I would expect a telesope that could see the hair on a flies ball bag from a few miles away.

Slightly improved? Have you used it? It's pretty much perfect now - inasmuch as it can be with MWO's awful film grain anyways.

It's only 2m c-bills, it's one of the few modules I've actually bought multiples of now for my more dedicated long range builds.

[Superslicks]

Bishop Steiner, on 20 September 2013 - 02:20 PM, said:

Pretty Baby.

Yup, a flaming **** of a mech, that for some reason I was brain dead enough to spend IRL money on. And it was such a piece, I actually sold it just to clear a mechbay. But since I was NEVER going to use it, would keeping it have somehow been better? (Only consolation is I bought it on a sale, but yeesh.)



we made the mistake of somehow thinking being an IRL money mech it might somehow be good. Instead it is the worst of all Awesomes.

I also got this mech, but unlike you guys im still using it and having a lot of fun with it.

[Bishop Steiner]

Sir Ratburger, on 21 September 2013 - 06:20 AM, said:

Yeah I need to get some more mechbays and more mechs, bought the Overlord Phoenix package so saving up the cash for them as I'm sure I'm going to have to gut and rebuild most of them.

Oh yeah I almost fogot - another big waste of money and GXP was that useless and grainy zoom module... glad its 'slightly' more improved now but for that price I would expect a telesope that could see the hair on a flies ball bag from a few miles away.

meh, it's perfect now...not in quality, but for maintaining game balance. Any better an I would kill mechs with Gauss rifle head shots at max range all day.

[SM60]

I bought the Founder's pack and thought "this is beta I'll get all my MC back when the game launches" so I bought and sold lots of mechs playing around with configs. Bye bye all my MC.

[Training Instructor]

Atlast AS-7K. Massive mistake, always hated it when I had it. Once it was elited it got stripped and sold with the quickness.

[Bishop Steiner]

SM60, on 21 September 2013 - 07:38 AM, said:

I bought the Founder's pack and thought "this is beta I'll get all my MC back when the game launches" so I bought and sold lots of mechs playing around with configs. Bye bye all my MC.

Interesting since even at the end of Closed Beta they said there would be no further stat or purchase wipes. Sucks to have happen tho!

[SM60]

Bishop Steiner, on 21 September 2013 - 07:41 AM, said:

Interesting since even at the end of Closed Beta they said there would be no further stat or purchase wipes. Sucks to have happen tho!

Yea never saw that post, my own fault but still sucks especially since I bought some terribad mechs haha.

[Butane9000]

My most expensive is that I sold a CTF-3D I didn't want anymore before actually using the XP to master the variant. I ended up having to regrind the c-bills to buy another one, master it then sell it again.

[Wintersdark]

Bishop Steiner, on 21 September 2013 - 06:55 AM, said:

meh, it's perfect now...not in quality, but for maintaining game balance. Any better an I would kill mechs with Gauss rifle head shots at max range all day.

This is what I meant. Not that it's perfectly crystal clear; but that it works perfectly. I wouldn't want it changed at all now except maybe how HUD elements are drawn over it, actually, that's kinda sketchy.

It's a tremendous disadvantage up close, because of how the small PIP window works, but absolutely does help dramatically at long range whereas it used to be harder to use it to make long range shots due to how it made everything a blurry pixelated mess.

You get a better quality picture if you turn Post Processing and DoF off, of course - it's blowing up what you'd normally see, after all, and all Post does is make the game bizarrely blurry - I'm *positive* that all the devs have poor eyesight and assume that's how things look to people with normal eyesight.

[Bishop Steiner]

Wintersdark, on 21 September 2013 - 08:00 AM, said:

This is what I meant. Not that it's perfectly crystal clear; but that it works perfectly. I wouldn't want it changed at all now except maybe how HUD elements are drawn over it, actually, that's kinda sketchy.

It's a tremendous disadvantage up close, because of how the small PIP window works, but absolutely does help dramatically at long range whereas it used to be harder to use it to make long range shots due to how it made everything a blurry pixelated mess.

You get a better quality picture if you turn Post Processing and DoF off, of course - it's blowing up what you'd normally see, after all, and all Post does is make the game bizarrely blurry - I'm *positive* that all the devs have poor eyesight and assume that's how things look to people with normal eyesight.

well, you know what they say happens if you touch yourself.....

[Foxfire]

The quickdraw... Didn't take me long to sell that sucker back.

[TripleEhBeef]

I bought a Raven 4x as my first mech...