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[Scout Derek]

Going to be short with this.

Salvage is good because that means more mechs and more monopoly money, and stripped chassis helps save monopoly money.

Opinions?

[MeiSooHaityu]

Magic salvage?

Normally, if you salvage something, you've claimed someone else's property. If I lose in a match by being destroyed, do I lose my mech and have to replace it somehow? Same with weapons?

I can see this being rather frustrating. Even if you really "salvaged" a copy, the C-Bills would flow. That is assuming repair and rearm wouldn't take effect.

Then, if you're a scout light or fire support and might die frequently but not get many kills, you will be stuck with a more restrictive economy and no salvage to sell to repair your mechs or save IP C-Bills.

Maybe I would need to see a more detailed idea on how to implement this fairly, but I can't see this working.

[Alistair Winter]

In short, real salvage as seen in MW2:Mercs, where you get to keep mechs you've wrecked, would completely destroy PGI's mech sales in the current model and don't make sense unless people can actually lose their mechs.

It wouldn't work unless you followed a Star Citizen model, where you pay insurance to buy back ships you lost, at a small fee. In other words, it doesn't work unless PGI brings back repair & rearm, which they will never do.

Mechwarrior Arcade mode is what the people want.

[TLBFestus]

You just named the reasons PGI won't do this.

They don't want the monopoly money to be that easy to get, and stripped mech chasis on sale for cheap. They want you to be impatient enough to spend MC.

I believe that some of your reward at teh end of the match is salvage related, but I couldn't tell you the math they do to give you c-bills for it (not parts obviously).

[SaltBeef]

What would be sweet and add value to the match .............would be if the salvage reward from the Halloween event was made permanent and added salvage after your kills in a match to include a broken empty mech shell rare but occasionally based on what weapon you used like in MechCommander. Pulse lasers, streaks and LBX higher salvage chance, LL, Ac20, LRM, and Srm not so much.

[Scout Derek]

In moreover for the stripped chassis, I remember someone mentioned salvage, but don't know who, I put it in there to see if they saw this.

Now I'll go into depth about why we should have the option to buy stripped chassis. You ever started on a new mech, but you already own one variant, and you don't want to spend the unnecessary funds to get it? This will solve it, allowing the player to have the option of buying it full, or, without any armor, weapons, equipment, etc.
So say you have a centurion, you wanna buy the D variant, but you don't want the engine, well, that's about 4 million cbills saved from its whopping 9~ million cbills, so you'll get the ventilation D for about 5 million.

Another would be clans, since omnipods, since they are interchangeable, you can just strip one of your variants and outfit the stripped one.

And I think this would save us a bit from the grind.