13 replies to this topic

[stillnight]

Title says it all.

I think this is a good idea, it would encourage players to buy MC as well as playing more often to reap the rewards for playing your favorite mech.

EDIT: Suggested by someone on the MechWarrior: Online Facebook page.

[Sug]

stillnight, on 24 January 2014 - 11:05 AM, said:

it would encourage players to buy MC .

How?

[TheDevilsIncarnate]

Or better yet, C-Bills, cause that is something I could actually use. Like the exchange rate between XP to GXP. Then I can take my Highlanders with thousands of XP on them and use it to buy more mechs instead of grinding so freaking much. It would encourage MC purchases for more mech bays and the conversion process.

[MeiSooHaityu]

Maybe C-Bills...maybe, but not MC.

MC will always be a real money currency. A F2P game like MWO needs this for it's livelyhood.

Even if mech XP could be converted to C-Bills, I would think it would be a one time reward for reaching 100,000XP on an elited chassis. I don't think it should a persistant reward.

[Kaldrenborn]

I think it would be really neat to have a reward system like that. Why not be able to get MC for working hard? Maybe make the conversion rate something like 100,000 xp to 100 MC or 1,000 MC. If it was somewhat low like that, it would still be viable, and those who spend money can still do so to support the game.

[DEMAX51]

Never gonna happen.

[Rhaythe]

C-Bills yes. MC no.

No free-to-play game outside of the mobile market offers away real-world currency like that on any exchange rate. That kills any and all incentive to buy in-game currency (thus, fueling the game's coffers).

[stillnight]

Sug, on 24 January 2014 - 11:06 AM, said:

How?

People that don't buy much into MC would most likely have thousands of mech XP lying around, if we had the option to convert say 500 MXP to 100 or 250 MC people would see how useful it is, and thus encourage them to buy MC.

DEMAX51, on 24 January 2014 - 11:14 AM, said:

Never gonna happen.

PGI said it was a cool suggestion, so I'm putting it in future suggestions.

DustyHardtail, on 24 January 2014 - 11:13 AM, said:

I think it would be really neat to have a reward system like that. Why not be able to get MC for working hard? Maybe make the conversion rate something like 100,000 xp to 100 MC or 1,000 MC. If it was somewhat low like that, it would still be viable, and those who spend money can still do so to support the game.

I agree.. it wouldn't kill the game, like some of the doom and gloom people here on the forums would say. Its a awesome suggestion, if not MC then C-Bills, because really there is no reward for having THOUSANDS of MXP just sitting there gathering dust, there needs to an alternative to spend all that XP.

[DEMAX51]

stillnight, on 24 January 2014 - 11:22 AM, said:

PGI said it was a cool suggestion, so I'm putting it in future suggestions.

Source?

[Sandpit]

Nah, cbills maybe.

Giving players a way to earn consistent and regular amounts of MC for free do not encourage them to buy it instead

[Khobai]

PGI should just give us all free MC then go bankrupt and shut down the server.

[Rhaythe]

Hawken does something nifty. When a mech levels up to its max, the excess XP overflows into a general XP pool that can be used by any mech. That, I believe, is a better idea.

[stillnight]

DEMAX51, on 24 January 2014 - 12:03 PM, said:

Source?

https://www.facebook...chWarriorOnline
Here you go

[Rhaythe]

stillnight, on 24 January 2014 - 12:49 PM, said:

https://www.facebook...chWarriorOnline
Here you go

Ah. The facebook rep did say as much. Cool.

Still a bad idea.