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[Speedy Plysitkos]

How is it by you ? (im asking because i see very often, someone in chat said, uh , i forget ammo, for this... uh i forget this weapon.....)

Do you strip engine/weapons/modules from each mech, and configure only the mech you are playing ?

I personaly prefer to have all mechs fully equiped with everything on max tonnage. All of them.

[Juodas Varnas]

I have a habit of selling mechs that i have no plans of using. I usually keep a single variant of a chassis, with exceptions from time to time.
So i usually have enough gear to kit all of my mechs out (because i don't have that many of them)

[process]

In the beginning when I had limited funds and equipment, I would strip and reconfigure as often as possible to conserve my precious cbills.

Now over a hundred mechs later, I've amassed enough equipment that I've been able to fully equip most of my roster. The exceptions are still XL engines and modules, cuz that shizz is still expensive.

Edited by process, 15 June 2015 - 08:01 AM.

[Joseph Mallan]

Titannium, on 15 June 2015 - 07:24 AM, said:

How is it by you ? (im asking because i see very often, someone in chat said, uh , i forget ammo, for this... uh i forget this weapon.....)

Do you strip engine/weapons/modules from each mech, and configure only the mech you are playing ?

I personaly prefer to have all mechs fully equiped with everything on max tonnage. All of them.

I do to... but I'm old and forg... almonds are good for your diet you know!

[TamCoan]

I'm space-rich so I keep everything I ever got in a workable state, you never know when the god of quirks will come visiting and turn a bad mech into a mech of destruction. The exception is two Cicadas that are missing engines. I honestly don't care enough about those two to put them in working order.

[Juodas Varnas]

Joseph Mallan, on 15 June 2015 - 08:04 AM, said:

Almonds are good for your diet you know!

Oh man, almonds are like my favorite nuts.
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That came out wrong too.

[Quaamik]

I fully equip everything I keep.

Which is part of the reason I'm always c-bill poor.

That said, sometimes ill reconfigure on the fly, like swapping LRMs on a mech I PUG with for SRMs when I drop in CW, or vice versa.

Edited by Quaamik, 15 June 2015 - 08:39 AM.

[Leiska]

I move around equipment a lot. Usually it's just engines and modules, but occasionally I have to move cheaper components, as well. It just isn't good value to buy duplicates if you can avoid it.

[Revis Volek]

Juodas Varnas, on 15 June 2015 - 08:12 AM, said:

Oh man, almonds are like my favorite nuts.
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That came out wrong too.

I prefer Legumes....Cashews really.

[El Bandito]

"Save Configuration" feature is Lostech.

One thing the Steam horde will notice right away.

Edited by El Bandito, 15 June 2015 - 09:36 AM.

[Juodas Varnas]

DarthRevis, on 15 June 2015 - 09:34 AM, said:

I prefer Legumes....Cashews really.

Oh man, those nuts are pretty great too.

I also bloody love pistachios. It's a damn shame that they're really expensive (at least where i live, not sure how it's in other countries)

But, uhh, let's not turn this thread to a discussion about nuts.

Edited by Juodas Varnas, 15 June 2015 - 09:45 AM.

[Joseph Mallan]

Juodas Varnas, on 15 June 2015 - 08:12 AM, said:

Oh man, almonds are like my favorite nuts.
That came out wrong.
That came out wrong too.

Quit... now.

[Revis Volek]

Juodas Varnas, on 15 June 2015 - 09:44 AM, said:

But, uhh, let's not turn this thread to a discussion about nuts.

its way to late for that Juodas!

[Joseph Mallan]

El Bandito, on 15 June 2015 - 09:36 AM, said:

"Save Configuration" feature is Lostech.

One thing the Steam horde will notice right away.

Is is possible that a weapon on a "saved" Config could be sold and possibly reappear by magic of the save?

[DaZur]

I used to steal from Peter to pay Paul but I finally resigned to just buying the stuff and equipping them all.

To be clear... I got mechs that are essentially shells... but I don't play them. If I play them with any regularity... they're fit with all kit and fully moduled.

Edited by DaZur, 15 June 2015 - 10:04 AM.

[Joseph Mallan]

DarthRevis, on 15 June 2015 - 09:47 AM, said:

its way to late for that Juodas!

No no... This is a discussion by nuts. Totally different.

[Juodas Varnas]

Joseph Mallan, on 15 June 2015 - 09:48 AM, said:

No no... This is a discussion by nuts. Totally different.

By nuts, for nuts, about nuts.

[El Bandito]

Joseph Mallan, on 15 June 2015 - 09:47 AM, said:

Is is possible that a weapon on a "saved" Config could be sold and possibly reappear by magic of the save?

It is possible. If PGI can't work around that, then they need better programmers.

[Tiamat of the Sea]

I fully equip everything. I see engine swapping as exceptionally silly- in the process of mastering a 'mech, assuming you do so by playing it on three different days, you're going to earn approximately seven million C-bills. If you play it on six separate days to master it, that might go as low as six million C-bills by the time you've got enough 'mech XP. Add any money you earn by playing 'mechs you've already mastered, and you should easily be able to afford buying and kitting out 'mechs without having to engage in equipment-swapping time-superwasting (because shuffling equipment isn't even fun- games are wastes of time, yes, but they're fun wastes of time) shenanigans.

Seven million is enough to buy and kit out most Light and some Medium 'mechs just on its own, with money left over on the Lights. Play a few matches here and there with 'mechs you kitted out already and you're fine.

Things only get screwy with modules, which is why I don't use modules.... yet. Once I have and have kitted out all the 'mechs I want from the IS, I'm going to be playing for money to module them, and then I'm going to start puttering about with clan 'mechs in between keeping up with IS releases. Moduling days are not too far off for me anymore either- by mastering everything I buy and selling off things I don't want to keep after mastering them, I've gotten to the point where I'm partway through mastering nine already customized 'mechs at a time and on top of that I've already kitted out another twelve 'mechs that I haven't even started driving.

If we take into account that I purchased both Resistance packs and the Guardian phoenix pack (and a Jester for creepygrintimes) and otherwise have only spent MC for 'mech bays, that means that with only c-bills I would still be working on mastering 'only' 8 already customized 'mechs and partway through kitting out the ninth. This is not even counting how many times I've refitted 'mechs I own with completely different loadouts- my KGC-000 has had at least four different setups with different engine sizes, and I'm pretty sure I changed the loadout in my 4H Quickdraw in ways that altered the engine size at least five times, just to point out a few examples.

Which means it's completely possible to afford fitting all the equipment aside from modules permanently in each 'mech you own, and still gain ground on C-bills over time. Heck, if you just buy one of each module and shuffle only those around, you'll still manage just fine.

So no, I don't 'share' equipment, and I think it's kind of silly to do so.

[Nightmare1]

I have about 80 Mechs and 20 engines that service them all.

I share engines.

Edit: Same goes for modules!

Edited by Nightmare1, 15 June 2015 - 10:48 AM.