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[Kahoumono]

Totally agree, I only show up if there is free stuff. I have everything I want and no interest in getting new mechs if it just means carbon copy weapons setup as in 20 other mechs. As for the contest, load up with whatever boat and one button mash for a few hours. That's about as immersive as sitting in front of an 8-bit arcade machine for those who remember.

[Alistair Winter]

The thing that has really helped me is just buying all the mechs I want, equipping them fully and then not buying any more. Maybe buy a module here and there, swap an engine, try a different build. But really when you push 30 mechs, especially if you don't keep all variants for every chassis, I think buying more mechs is counter-productive. Because the C-bill income for this game is just so depressing and while it may be worth the wait to save 15 million C-bills per mech when you're new to the game, the grind is actually more unbearable for me now when the novelty has worn off.

When you have all the mechs you need, there's no grind that makes you play that extra match every night. There's no incentive to participate in PGI's grindfests challenges where you need a 100 or so matches for the top reward. There's no burnout. You don't feel like you have to play 10 matches every day to work towards that grinding goal.

You just play when you want to play, and go read a book or play another game when you don't. By the way, EA is giving out Theme Hospital for free right now, limited time offer.

"By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich" - Democritus

Maybe not the answer you were looking for, but MWO isn't exactly like Skyrim or some big MMO with lots of different stuff to do, where you can take up racing or fishing as a hobby when you get sick of questing and PVP. You can always try to play a joke build like a RVN-4X with AC20, but that stuff always burns me out even faster than playing normally.

[Jon Gotham]

Shredhead, on 23 January 2015 - 03:39 PM, said:

Step up your game, dude. There's so much you could do. Join a comp unit, get into league play. Take on a weight class you don't like (yet). Try to get good at this game. Play 1 on 1s vs your buddies.
Motivation is yours to find, not the game's responsibility when it and its community give you so many possibilities.

I'll second this. For me it's CW and getting more into that. Currently I'm solo pugging it, I'm trying to improve to a point where I can be consistent then I'l shop for a unit and get more involved.
Until CW came along I was slowing down as the pug queues were slowly killing the joy for me.

[Kahoumono]

Getting more involved seems to make the problems worse, even more repetitive and monotonous. The super boat builds become viable because even if you miss you have 12 other guys sporting the same loadouts shooting at the same guy. Part of the appeal to this franchise is the dueling aspect and the game in its current state dueling would be totally lame. I bet most who frequent these forums will already know what to expect, more single button builds. If they can fix the problem on an individual mech level it would go a long way to enriching the experience.

[SgtMagor]

I want bigger maps at least double the size of current ones.