Grimwill, on 15 April 2014 - 04:01 PM, said:
Better start grinding now, A timber wolf alone cost 24 million cbills
Craig Steele, on 15 April 2014 - 05:59 PM, said:
I wondered about this the last time the cost factor was raised.
In BT, the cost represents the availability and also the relative power output of Clan tech.
In MW:O, availability is not an issue and the power output are supposedly "equivilent", so what is the reasoning for Clan mechs to be demonstrably more expensive than IS ones?
I mean if tech was what TT is and you could only buy a small number, I could understand the cost being as per BTU, but it's not going to be.
VanillaG, on 15 April 2014 - 07:58 PM, said:
The Timberwolf should be about 18-20 mil based on the changes to MWO pricing. The biggest cost savings is that fact the MWO has a static price for the engine. In TT the engine cost was dependent on the weight of the mech. So the 300 engine in a Dragon cost less than the 300 engine in an Atlas.
The other thing about omni mechs is that they have a straight 25% markup over similar standard mechs. Go to Smurphys and using an Orion K as the demo put in the largest XL Engine, Endo, and Double heatsinks and you are over 14 mil. Once you put on weapons and add the 25% markup you get into the 18-20 mil price range.
Is anyone actually thinking that that price
might be referred to a conversion for the Inner Sphere and that a Clan warrior should not pay for the 'Mech he has been assigned, let alone pay THAT much? At very least Clan Wolf players with CW should pay a quite lower price because they have factories building them..ù
As you said it is a question of availability: an Inner Sphere MechWarrior would have a very very low chance to pilot a Clan OmniMech in 3050 (even later), let alone buy one, so its price is high. For a Kurita, a Dragon should not cost as much as for a Davion MechWarrior, quiaff?
Edited by CyclonerM, 16 April 2014 - 09:35 AM.