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[Pr3mium]

I am new to this game. I've played many FTP games and have no problems paying for this one. I just have a question about the way it's done.



Is cash paying for mechs, guns, skins? Can any/all of those be bought with in-game currency as well as $$$ currency?


Is it like LoL where they have 2 different money types? Cash can buy anything in-game, while in-game cash can be earned and buy most stuff.


Is it a game where they have a rotation of available mechs for free each week like LoL champions, or is it more like WoT and Warrock where you have starting tanks/weapons and you need to purchase more mechs/weapons with in-game or bought cash over time.


Is ammo bought like in WoT?


Are parts like guns and such owned only for a limited time like in Warrock, or do you have it forever once purchased.


I'm just curious how the buying system works, both in-game with credits earned each game, and when I pay money for credits.




Just an FYI, I have always loved Mech games, but don't have experience with them. The reason being I only like playing onlne games, and most are not (none that I know about but Chromehounds for the 360 which I played a little of). So I am extremely excited for an online mech game to come out, and am already thinking about buying the founders mechs to support them. But I was also curious what, "$80.00 of in-game currency" will be able to buy. And I assume the premium membership part deals with just a boost in exp/in-game cash earned.

[combatplayer]

stuff like mechs and weapons can be bought for ingame cash, i'm pretty sure of that. i know they have premium accounts, other than that i don't know what they take money for. i would imagine they sell accessories that doesn't really give you much of an advantage in a battle for real cash. and maybe a way to buy ingame cash for real $


i dont know anything about prices or ratios, i can only guess.

[MuffinTop]

[Shiinore]

From my understanding, it's freemium. Meaning anything you want to buy with cash, you can buy with in-game money (with the exception of EXP or C-Bill boosters).

Everything else only gives you a head start on the amount of equipment you have.

NO, PEOPLE, IT ISN'T PAY-TO-WIN.

[Saren21]

here you go man read this

i hope that helps.

MuffinTop, on 02 July 2012 - 10:41 AM, said:

your my hero

Edited by Saren21, 02 July 2012 - 10:45 AM.

[Wildcat]

Shiinore, on 02 July 2012 - 10:43 AM, said:

From my understanding, it's freemium. Meaning anything you want to buy with cash, you can buy with in-game money (with the exception of EXP or C-Bill boosters).

Everything else only gives you a head start on the amount of equipment you have.

NO, PEOPLE, IT ISN'T PAY-TO-WIN.

I prefer my version.... MWO is not Pay to be Awesome !... its Pay to Look Awesome !!

The Game is entirely based on Skill to Play

Edited by Wildcat, 02 July 2012 - 10:51 AM.

[Saren21]

Wildcat, on 02 July 2012 - 10:50 AM, said:

I prefer my version.... MWO is not Pay to be Awesome !... its Pay to Look Awesome !!

The Game is entirely based on Skill to Play

damn right ! shut up and take my money! I want my damn vanity pets,hulu girls and mech skins !

[MuffinTop]

Saren21, on 02 July 2012 - 10:44 AM, said:

here you go man read this

i hope that helps.


your my hero

So do you want to be facebook friends?

[Saren21]

MuffinTop, on 02 July 2012 - 10:54 AM, said:

So do you want to be facebook friends?

no wai but your welcome to to keep makeing me lol on the fourms

[Pr3mium]

Well thanks to those who have helped so far.

I seriously don't understand the facepalm.......it's not like I said it's pay-to-win. Thanks for your input. You're so nice.....and you obviously are helping me so much, especially for such a veteran as yourself with over 300 posts.
And no Saren, that doesn't really help. Please look at my questions again. I only want to know about purchasing.

Edited by Pr3mium, 02 July 2012 - 10:57 AM.

[Wildcat]

Pr3mium, on 02 July 2012 - 10:56 AM, said:

Well thanks to those who have helped so far.

I seriously don't understand the facepalm.......it's not like I said it's pay-to-win. Thanks for your input. You're so nice.....and you obviously are helping me so much, especially for such a veteran as yourself with over 300 posts.
And no Saren, that doesn't really help. Please look at my questions again. I only want to know about purchasing.

You mean the Founders program ?

Try these ones
http://mwomercs.com/...ch-a-short-faq/

http://mwomercs.com/...ge-on-sale-now/

[Pr3mium]

I already read them........
I'm wondering what the $80 of in-game currency can be used for.


The only question I found answered was this when looking around, but for some reason I didn't take it out.

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Is it a game where they have a rotation of available mechs for free each week like LoL champions, or is it more like WoT and Warrock where you have starting tanks/weapons and you need to purchase more mechs/weapons with in-game or bought cash over time.

and technically this

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And I assume the premium membership part deals with just a boost in exp/in-game cash earned.

But I kept that because I didn't know if premium members got anything other than the in-game boosts.

Edited by Pr3mium, 02 July 2012 - 11:07 AM.

[Wildcat]

In store $$$ Items

There will be no Gold Ammo (Extra Damage ammo)
There will be no Game Changing Mechs or guns ect.. for sale, like nothing with 20% boost to weapon power or 30% Fire Rates ect... none of that

Mech Prices will be something like $5 for lights, $10 for Mediums, $15 for Heavys, $20 for Assault Mechs, Devs had said you could get 8 Mediums for that $80, so based the prices off that even then the Devs said that price could change

once you buy something with either Cash or C-Bills its yours to own for as long as you want to keep it

From what I have gathered, instead of paying like 32,500,000 C-Bills for a Mech you can buy it for real $$

not sure about the $$$ Weapons tho, other than they will not have game changing Stats

Hope that helps with some Questions

And Premium Accounts only get the Exp and C-Bill boosts so far

However... if you have a Founders Mech which has a C-Bill Boost on it, that will in fact Stack with the Premium Account C-Bill boost as well

Edited by Wildcat, 02 July 2012 - 11:16 AM.

[Saren21]

Pr3mium, on 02 July 2012 - 10:56 AM, said:

Well thanks to those who have helped so far.

I seriously don't understand the facepalm.......it's not like I said it's pay-to-win. Thanks for your input. You're so nice.....and you obviously are helping me so much, especially for such a veteran as yourself with over 300 posts.
And no Saren, that doesn't really help. Please look at my questions again. I only want to know about purchasing.

I am sorry if i came off like a jerk let me help you out for real this time.

Pr3mium, on 02 July 2012 - 10:37 AM, said:

I am new to this game. I've played many FTP games and have no problems paying for this one. I just have a question about the way it's done.



Is cash paying for mechs, guns, skins? Can any/all of those be bought with in-game currency as well as $$$ currency?


Is it like LoL where they have 2 different money types? Cash can buy anything in-game, while in-game cash can be earned and buy most stuff.


Is it a game where they have a rotation of available mechs for free each week like LoL champions, or is it more like WoT and Warrock where you have starting tanks/weapons and you need to purchase more mechs/weapons with in-game or bought cash over time.


Is ammo bought like in WoT?


Are parts like guns and such owned only for a limited time like in Warrock, or do you have it forever once purchased.


I'm just curious how the buying system works, both in-game with credits earned each game, and when I pay money for credits.

.

Is cash paying for mechs, guns, skins? Can any/all of those be bought with in-game currency as well as $$$ currency?
No every thing in game will be got with the money you earn from your battles.

Is it like LoL where they have 2 different money types? Cash can buy anything in-game, while in-game cash can be earned and buy most stuff. yes and no there are faction points you earn that are like the in game cash you earn but can only be spent on your factions items. but your cold hard real cash stays out of it.

Is it a game where they have a rotation of available mechs for free each week like LoL champions, or is it more like WoT and Warrock where you have starting tanks/weapons and you need to purchase more mechs/weapons with in-game or bought cash over time. its more like WOT in that way but all with only ingame money.

Is ammo bought like in WoT? Yes amo is bought but only with in game money there is not "better" ammo if you use cash.

Are parts like guns and such owned only for a limited time like in Warrock, or do you have it forever once purchased. Yours untill you sell them buddy.

I'm just curious how the buying system works, both in-game with credits earned each game, and when I pay money for credits. As of right now your not going to beable to pay money for more credits you can upgrade your account so you can earn more c-bills but you can just out right buy them (yet).

As for the buying system for real cash to get an account upgrade you will most likey use the web site and if they plan on makeing it so you can buy c-bills you will most likey have to use the web site as well.

Sorry for being a jerk i hope that helps

Edited by Saren21, 02 July 2012 - 11:20 AM.

[Pat Kell]

I doubt anyone knows excatly all of the things the ingame currency will buy but we do know that you can buy nechs, garage slots to house the mechs and weapons, equipment/ammo (which you get to keep from what i have read, you have an inventory). One of the devs put up a post asking people what kind of decorations and what not the would want to see in the shop (believe the thread is called "help me help you get stuff" to lazy to link it). So besides those 3 main tangible items it appears as if you can purchase items to decorate your cockpit, new paintjobs and other various items that won't really affect game play, just maybe make you feel a bit better about gettin shot at for a livin.

Edited by Pat Kell, 02 July 2012 - 11:28 AM.

[Stormlight666]

Why is it every "new player" starts to spout off about "Pay to Play", "World of Tanks", "Pay to Win".

No offense but it just comes off as trollish behavior. All your answers are pretty much covered in other forum topics.

As for the "what do buy with $80 in in-game currency. Well probably things like extra mech slots, C-Bills, and other fun stuff.

In retrospect, the extra mech spots you get for having founders mechs, double the value of what you get.

[Pr3mium]

Well that helped a lot more. Thanks.

Didn't know you'd be able to sell parts back. Would you get full price back? I assume not, or that you have no idea yet.





edit @Stormlight666: I'm still wondering why everyone is assuming I said it was pay-to-win? Where did I say that, I'd really like to know. I played WoT for like a week and that was months ago. I never paid so I didn't even know you can buy bullets that do extra damage. I was surprised every single person has brought it up like I asked about it, when I didn't even know it existed. So please prove me wrong Stormlight666. Please show me where I pointed out that this is Pay-To-Win, that I even knew what any of that dumb ammo that helps you out is. I only brought out you can pay-to-play if you want because I support games I like. That's why I have paid for LoL, and still do once in a while. It's why I use to once in a while when I played Warrock. And it's why I never paid for WoT. I didn't care for WoT. It was alright, but nothing special. I'd want mechs over tanks.

Edited by Pr3mium, 02 July 2012 - 11:27 AM.

[Saren21]

Pr3mium i know alot of us come off as jerks. I am sorry for that but its just we have seen alot of posts lately covering this very subject and there is a new players guide to the forums that covered some of what you asked. we are not all bad just jaded take our hijinks with a grain of salt i have been know to mess around from time to time but in the end most people will help you out here. like i did

[Wildcat]

Pr3mium, on 02 July 2012 - 11:20 AM, said:

Well that helped a lot more. Thanks.

Didn't know you'd be able to sell parts back. Would you get full price back? I assume not, or that you have no idea yet.

no real idea yet, tho someone said you get 25% back for what you paid for it


here is another interesting Link, http://mwomercs.com/...-blog-6-mechlab

Might help answer some other questions

[Saren21]

Didn't know you'd be able to sell parts back. Would you get full price back? I assume not, or that you have no idea yet.


That i don't know yet but if i had to guess i bet you have to sell them back at half price.