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[Deliverator]

I like #7. I want to be able to customize everything, but I do think there should be some significant cost in money, experience, time, and possible **** ups of the customization. I think if you want to refit your mech you shouldn't be able to use it for 24-48 hours. If you want to replace a laser bay with a projectile weapon mount I think you should have to send that back to a manufacturer and have it done taking several days. I like the idea of base variants, but I also think that we will have more mechs on the battlefield than battletech ever saw in existence at one time purely because we will have hundreds of thousands of members for this game.

[Melissia]

Extended customization, definitely. MW4 blew chunks compared to previous games specifically because of its lack of customization.

You can balance weapon choices to prevent min/maxing without removing customization.

[DocBach]

Stick to cannon variants unless you've got an OmniMech. It was suppose to be very difficult, expensive and beyond most tech's ability to do crazy overhauls and customization of BattleMechs, and it limits the amount of unbalanced munchtech designs people will create. Customization should be visual - I'd like to see developers include the paint schemes from the Field Manuals/CamoSpecs online in the game as a way for players to customize their 'Mechs visually.

[Damocles]

^agree with DocBach

[Hanged Man]

I went with Method 4. The stock variants have a lot of history in there and many of us will have become familiar with their ups and downs as we followed the games. Minor tweaks only (in my case I'm mostly thinking of tweaking secondary modules - trading off between such things as sensors, ECM/ECCM, drones if that should become a thing, and perhaps heat sinks or AMS) while keeping the original feel and balance.