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[Riverboat Sam]

This is probably something more experienced players know well already, but I'm having a lot of fun doing it so I suppose it can't hurt to mention it.

When the economy changed recently I got a suggestion from another player to make use of the daily double to enhance my earnings. That is, play a mech until I'd earned my x2 bonus for first victory of the day and then move on to another mech - earning as many x2 bonuses a day as possible.

I spent some time in the Mechlab and put together one decent build for every chassis I have leveled up. I chose Primes or Champions in almost every case to maximize earnings. The way my life works I only have an hour or two to game every night. I log in, grab any one of my prepped mechs and have at it. I play it only until I win my first victory of the night with it. Then I switch to a different mech and continue.

There are several advantages to this. First, earnings go up dramatically on a good, wining match. I'm talking 200,000 to 300,000 if I do any kind of a good job at all. That's with Champion/Prime bonus, premium time, and the daily double. Second, I find playing a variety of different chassis in a night much more fun than just camping on my favorite. Variety is the spice of life after all. Third, on those nights when Matchmaker has it in for me I've found that after taking two or three bad stomps a quick switch to a different weight class can often change my luck entirely. It may be my imagination, but I don't seem to suffer anymore from those dreaded ten to fifteen stomps in a row ruts that can sometimes happen.

Finally, I know the common wisdom is that one should find the weight class and play style they like and stick with that for the best gaming experience. I'm suggesting the opposite. Try daily doubling for a while. Play every different class. Give every different chassis you own some love on a regular basis. You might like it. I sure do.

[QuantumButler]

Maybe the daily double for a chassis should include double cbills too, just like other successful online f2p games.

[Pale Jackal]

Daily double can't apply to every chassis or it invalidates hero mechs. Each hero mech should have a daily double so it encourages you to buy more. I have 5 heroes now and 5 more on the way with the Resistance Wrath pack and if I was entirely logical I wouldn't buy the Wrath pack but I approve of PGIs recent behavior.

Daily doubles for hero mechs makes a lot of sense. Maybe let each account have 1 daily double that applies to non hero mechs.

[Riverboat Sam]

Not sure if you noticed, but all mechs you own get 2x C Bills and XP for the first victory of every day. WOT does the same thing.

[QuantumButler]

Riverboat Sam, on 07 November 2014 - 06:36 AM, said:

Not sure if you noticed, but all mechs you own get 2x C Bills and XP for the first victory of every day. WOT does the same thing.

ONLY XP, NOT cbills.

[Oto Kanon]

I thought it was just XP.

[TexAce]

As an experienced player I know this, BUT I tend to stick to a mech for a day at least, because I noticed throughout the 1000s of matches I had, that the more you switch between mechs the less good you perform.
Because practice, every mech behaves differently, moves differently etc... so the more you train the mech the better you perform. The more you switch the less muscle memory works and you perform less good.

[JediMechwarrior]

Only xp from your bonuses. and yes, i tend to bounce around myself. Earnings are standard. any bonus on cbills are from the mech and premium time.

daily "times twos" are for your experience only.

(ps the more you switch around, the more you understand what people bring to the table. by knowing that a certain mech can't twist as well, or that such n such can't aim that high, it gives you a knoweledge base that allows you to make intelligent decisions on the battlefield. running one mech is fine and all, but will not give you the insight of how/why someone's having a good/bad run in a mech)

Edited by JediMechwarrior, 07 November 2014 - 06:57 AM.

[Murphy7]

Daily x2 is for XP only, which is still good and I know many pilots cycle through to maximize their GXP production, with all those tasty weapon modules taunting them from the Pilot Skills tree.

That said, I would absolutely embrace the daily double including C-bill generation as well, that would be a greater incentive to me to switch around mechs and builds that I drop in.

[LT. HARDCASE]

Sorry Sam, but you've been lying to yourself. There is no double cbills bonus.

[Blakkstar]

Well half that is valid anyways. The x2 is only XP, and swapping between chassis over and over will actually hurt your play. Playing several games in one chassis or Mech will give you better earnings over the long run because of consistency.

Concentrating on one build per Mech and getting good with it will boost your earnings, however, especially if it is a Hero or c-bill Champion (like the Cent-AH). The same reasoning applies. You will perform better playing a single build more often than switching between builds even on the same mech.

Better results for the Daily Double is just an illusion, because you only get the bonus in winning matches, where you will get more c-bills naturally for the win.

[Pale Jackal]

I would like to see each account get 1 to 3 non hero daily doubles then have a daily double attached to all heroes. Getting your players to play is good.

Edited by Pale Jackal, 07 November 2014 - 07:50 AM.

[F4T 4L]

If premium time gave a cbill double for first win of the day, per mech, that would add a lot of perceived value to pt, for many.

Personally, I think both xp and cbills should double with pt, all the time.

Edited by F4T 4L, 07 November 2014 - 08:34 AM.