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[DeathofSelf]

Roadbeer, on 22 November 2013 - 11:25 AM, said:

Thanks Corky, you've used all the exclamation points on the internet for the day, now what am I going to use for punctuation for my happiness that finally Marik get's some love.

Have you tried Decaf?

The internet certainly doesn't have many daily exclamation points, I used maybe 15? Oh look I found one more!

[MoonUnitBeta]

RyanKane, on 22 November 2013 - 10:05 AM, said:

This ^. I decided to hold off on buying Phoenix package because of this too, I wanted to see if some promises came true first and unfortunately they did not. I was really hoping to get it, but alas it was not to be.

Well they didn't promise anything.
One promise that they actually did say was a promise and that they are going to fulfill is the hitboxes, and they have been diligent at delivering and keeping us up to date on that.

Things you will find in this thread that you won't find in any other "promised announcement"

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(yes.. big promise)

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Just keeping my promise to you that I'd keep you up to date.

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As per promise.. here are the next Mechs up for hitbox tuning:

Edit: I just want to clarify that "we should" , or "this might", or "we have plans to", or "possibly","probably", "potentially", are not promises

Edited by MoonUnitBeta, 22 November 2013 - 12:24 PM.

[Ngamok]

K'an is a nice gold color. Bought it last time they were on sale. Tartrazine is a nice bright pale yellow as well. The other one I bought at the old sale was Jarostie. Nice Yellow Orange.

Might have to pick up 1 purple, probably a standard one.

[MonkeyCheese]

OK you win this time pgi ill get 7 bucks MC for some new purples

But otherwise this

tayhimself, on 22 November 2013 - 09:45 AM, said:

Waiting for UI 2, DX 11, and the first elements of CW to buy more MC. Good sale though.

MoonUnitBeta, on 22 November 2013 - 12:17 PM, said:

One promise that they actually did say was a promise and that they are going to fulfill is the hitboxes, and they have been diligent at delivering and keeping us up to date on that.

They could do more for the Awesome tho

[BlacKcuD]

Get the guys from the sales/advertisement department and let them work on weapon balancing, maps, and game modes. They seem to be understanding their job.

No srsly, why are some things working extremely well and look so polished/organised and how are other components of this game utter nonsense, reject common knowledge, and break every basic game design rule? Is the discrepancy in skill between the various employees so big and is there no QA?

Don't want to hate, but this circumstance has baffled me for a while now :/

[Aym]

Ngamok, on 22 November 2013 - 12:19 PM, said:

K'an is a nice gold color. Bought it last time they were on sale. Tartrazine is a nice bright pale yellow as well. The other one I bought at the old sale was Jarostie. Nice Yellow Orange.

Might have to pick up 1 purple, probably a standard one.

Edited by Aym, 22 November 2013 - 12:47 PM.

[Vidarok]

Jeez, if you don't complain, nothing's gonna change! Can't just pretend everything is alright when it isn't! The people who complain are probably the ones who care the most.

[Walice]

I went to go buy the sheman and some colors but they are the same price. whats going on?

[HlynkaCG]

Walice, on 23 November 2013 - 06:30 AM, said:

I went to go buy the sheman and some colors but they are the same price. whats going on?

Sane here, I've been waiting for "Sherman" to go on sale for a while but it's showing as the standard 750 mc price in the mechbay.

[Tooninki]

The paintscheme sale is for those Mech chassies that are on sale, Dragon, Awesome, Cicada & Jenner

[Ngamok]

I bought a premium purple last night, was 500 MC so price was fine for me.

[NRP]

Cool sale! I bought the premium yellow I needed to make my Jester into a corral snake.

[marlyy]

how many crucial sales untill we get the unimportant stuff? (ui2 dx11 gamemodes etc.....)

[Hellen Wheels]

I'm not getting the 50% off showing when I try to buy the patterns that are on sale. Trying to charge me full price!

[Monsoon]

Hellen Wheels, on 23 November 2013 - 11:54 AM, said:

I'm not getting the 50% off showing when I try to buy the patterns that are on sale. Trying to charge me full price!

Patterns are only on the the 4 Mechs chassis mentioned....


Which is why I broke down and bought some more MC, I NEEDED Sherman on my Cicada...In fact I need Sherman on a whole mess of mechs! So PGI, how about a general sale on Sherman?

[IllCaesar]

sC4r, on 22 November 2013 - 11:48 AM, said:

i find this thing curious though

cicada 3M MC price - 2840
cicada X5 MC price - 3000

so a normal mech costs pretty much the same as premium... there s gotta be something wrong here
(possible fix make x5 more expensive )

otherwise nice sale

I did the math once.

For hero mechs, its 75 MC per ton. Hence, the Boar's Head:

75 x 100 = 7,500 MC.

For normal mechs, it comes to 1 MC = 2,500 C-Bills. The CDA-3M costs roughly 7.1 million C-Bills, sooo....

7,100,000 / 2840 = 2,500 C-Bills on the nose.

PGI rounds up MC price, apparently. Its really so little its inconsequential though. Unless, you know, that two whole MC being spent extra rounding up to 2,840 for the 3M is absolutely killing you. GXP conversion-wise, you could earn more GXP playing one or two decent matches than you'd make spend to convert.

And I could absolutely confirm that Champion mechs go off the 2,500 C-Bill = 1 MC ratio by stripping down a regular varian and adding the same things to it as the Champion version, ie the BJ-1 and the BJ-1 ©, but I'm lazy, and quite frankly, just a cursory glance at the difference in pricing tells me that the 2,500CB/1MC ratio is what is being used, or at the very least a ratio very close to that.

So yeah, that is how mechs are priced for MC. If you notice, variants with XL engines are always carry a higher MC cost. For example, a Centurion-A has a STD 200 and is 1,480 MC. The Centurion-D comes with an XL 300, and is 3,625 MC. Granted, engines aren't the only factor, but the difference between a STD and an XL of the same size is anywhere from one million to four million C-Bills. Its why if I were to buy a regular mech with MC, it wouldn't be one carrying an XL engine, because upwards of ten USD extra solely because of the engine.

Edit: Well ****, you remember what I said about being lazy and not checking champions? Well, its half-way true. I stopped calculating it once I got a BJ-1 within three hundred MC of the BJ-1 (C) cost. So yeah, Champions are apparently valued on their equipment at the same ratio as normal mechs, 2,500 C-Bills to 1 MC.

Edited by MarsAtlas, 23 November 2013 - 05:42 PM.

[ShadowbaneX]

MarsAtlas, on 23 November 2013 - 05:27 PM, said:

I did the math once.

[...] it comes to 1 MC = 2,500 C-Bills.

I would so buy MC at 2,500 each. Hell, I'd do 1 MC for 5,000 c-bills especially for paint jobs, colours or converting Mech XP to GXP.

[PawPaWuFF]

had to buy sulfur yellow, 1/2 price is probably the best ill ever get it at

[Volt Corsair]

This kind of makes me want to buy a Jenner, paint it red, and start using Starsky and Hutch quotes.

[Cassius Longinus]

So, patterns are purchased on a per-chassis basis, but do colors transcend chassis?