Fate 6, on 05 January 2015 - 02:15 PM, said:
Yeah, we seriously need to make it easier to get mechs. As it is right now it's hard for me to recommend the game to friends because I know after the initial 25mil new player bonus they will be very very slowly grinding their way up. 25mil is 1-3 clan mechs or 2-5 IS mechs. But of course we only have 4 starting mech bays, so for a new player you pretty much either commit fully to 1 chassis or accept the fact that you won't master a mech for probably a month if not more.
While a month of play may be ok for some games to get minimal viable competitive content, for this game it's pretty tedious due to the nature of the short matches. If CW was playable at all for new players it might be better because even though the grind takes a while you don't have to play as many separate matches and the matches are more exciting (ignoring the fact that there are only 2 CW maps).
Make mechs a bit cheaper, and give us a couple more starting mech bays (enough to have 2 mastered sets of mechs), and I could actually start honestly telling my friends they should play the game. Right now the only people I know who play it are people who liked it because it was MW, not because they tried a new game and liked it.
This... I'm on my second stint with the game and I have spent a bit of money on the game, but I'm still quite far from having a good range of mechs despite at least 100 hours playing the game.
The biggest killers are the things that really shouldn't cost a lot, like the 6million modules, that you want on every mech, the 1.5million DHS (which everyone wants/should have to compete). I have to buy DHS on almost every mech and if you don't have to buy it then that mechs costs that much more anyway. Oh and lets mention the engines too. God forbid you want to buy a second XL300 so that you can fit two mechs and not be constantly moving the engine...
I do like the reward of doing well in a match and getting a nice bunch of cbills, but even with a hero mech and premium it'll still be a long time to elite a mech.
Heck the only reason i have two varients at elite is because I bought some mechs (hero and champion ones) with MC...
Edited by Nori Silverrage, 05 January 2015 - 02:41 PM.