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[Fox With A Shotgun]

I think you meant "mech skills"?

When you get mech skills, they're permanent. Pilot skills are permanent, too.

So yes, when you finish leveling your mech skills for any given mech variant, you can sell that mech and it'll still count.

[Mazzyplz]

quarks follow quantum theory

[Chados]

I'm actually doing that with Timberwolves. I won a TBR-C(C) in the last event and I'm skilling it up. I already did this with a Summoner Prime so I know it works.

This is how to do it. First, you need to have three different variants from the same chassis basiced *and* elited. I had all five Catapults fully mastered and three Thunderbolts fully mastered. Having done that, to master my TBR-C(C) I have to have it and two others in basics. But I don't want all the TBRs. They're great mechs but I'm an Inner Sphere faction player (House Marik, see the purple bird under my name?) and can't run Clan tech in community warfare modes. So I only need one for PuG queues.

So, I basiced out my C(C) and put it aside. At the time I had three Summoners and only wanted to keep the Prime variant as it is a special version. So I mastered my Prime, then stripped the Summoner B and D and removed their omnipods, and sold the chassis. That gave me 8 million Cbills, which with the 15 million I already had gave me enough to buy a TBR-Prime with some left over. I basiced it out, then stripped it and removed its omnipods, and sold the chassis. That netted another 4 million Cbills, so with what I had built up while leveling the Prime, I had just enough to buy a TBR-S (wanted the other jet omnipod , the C(C) came with one already) and I basiced it out too. That unlocked elites for the TBRs. Next time I'm on I'll strip and sell the S. I no longer have need of it.

Once I get through elites on my C(C) the master slot will unlock because I already have three other heavies mastered.

Edited by Chados, 05 November 2015 - 08:07 PM.

[Elizander]

In short, you have to put the XP into the actual skills before selling it. So you need 3 mechs at basic (all in your bays) then get them elite/master as you wish. Sell the 1-2 variants you don't like and keep the one you like.

You can get free mech bays by grinding out the lower level ranks of Community Warfare and some events will give MC/bays as well so keep an eye out for those.

[Koniving]

Mazzyplz, on 05 November 2015 - 08:04 PM, said:

quarks follow quantum theory

There's a negative quark for every four quarks.

That's a lot of Ferangis!