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[WarPickle]

I swear some of the mech chasis prices have been rising slowly....... am I crazy?

Maybe they seem higher because it's taking me longer to grind out the cbills than it did before..

Pug life ain't it grand Losses are absolutely devastating.... most of the time...

[Tekadept]

With the clans now here, production costs have gone up because they can get moar monay with the higher demand. hence more expensive mechs.

At least they didnt go the way of candy companies, keep the product at the same price but reduce the weight

Edited by Tekadept, 18 November 2014 - 06:16 PM.

[Redshift2k5]

No chassis has ever gone up in price.

Newer chassis are Clan Mechs that come with more expensive equipment (such as XL engines and DHS stock on every variant, tier2 tech,etc) so if you compare the cost of an IS mech that also has XL, DHS, Endo, stock the prices are not that different. Don't forget than a cheaper IS chassis will probably need 2 million for upgrades and possibly several million for an XL engine depending on your configuration.

The only new mech to come out recently that wasn't a Clan mech was the vindicaor, and it costs exactly the same as a Blackjack.

[Walluh]

Friendly reminder that clan mechs cost more because they have endosteel, ferro, double heatsinks and XLs stock, and they're near the same cost as an innersphere mech with the same upgrades.

Tekadept, on 18 November 2014 - 06:15 PM, said:

With the clans now here, production costs have gone up because they can get moar monay with the higher demand. hence more expensive mechs.

At least they didnt go the way of candy companies, keep the product at the same price but reduce the weight

So how 'bout that Resistance pack.

[Brody319]

I think the clan invasion made people realize just how expensive IS mechs can be.

[Sgt Ironballs]

I cry foul on the reasoning for making clans more expensive, all prices are completely arbitrary. Pgi can make them cost whatever they want.

- IS XL =\=clan XL. The IS engine only has to be purchased once, while the clan is hardlocked.
- some mechs that come with dhs have the upgrade for nearly free - see bjs

Because 1pilot = 1 mech, tonnage/clan cost never should have been a limiting factor for gating content. It encourages entitlement behaviour on upper weight classes. I can only shake my head when people say "what do you expect for 20tons, they are cheap" or "the dwf is supposed to melt face, its 100t". Tonnage should only define the toolkit - and if all kits are equal (because one mech = one player's game), why is one 1.5 million, and the other 10x more? Players should be more afraid of the pilot then the mech.

I know it will never happen, but MWO should have followed LoL for pricing. ALL new mechs would have the same fixed (high) price, regardless of clan or tonnage, and it would slowly degrade as the novelty wears off. Over time, you have a set of easily affordable, but well understood/balanced/tweaked mechs (great for the new player exp, in all weight classes) while new chassis "OMG Clans!" Can still profit PGI a premium.

Since I will probably get roasted anyway, I also think pilot skills should be reversed. Yup, you read right. Skills should be used more like a golf or bowling handicap, since newbs seemed to be thrown against vets in both queues anyway, and it will only get worse with cW. With the small playerbase, its like bowling with your buddy who was semi-pro in high school. You don't GIVE him an extra 200pts for playing with newbs, because its a GAME. You apply a handicap so everyone has a fair chance. In mwo the same could be done with a global pilot penalty. Your awesome at fast mechs? Take a 5% global speed hit. Amazing heat management? Take 7% lower heat cap. I bet epeen players would absolutely crow about their high handicap, and it would do much to level the playerbase.

I'm not even going to put flame shields on since it's 20°f outside and it'll save me on gas bills