RAM, on 04 March 2016 - 12:34 AM, said:
Actually that is not the case. Yes, the special Clan mechs are based upon their prime configuration or initial variant; however, the special IS mechs have no such standard. Not to mention that the Steam Performance Packs use the Champion version rather than the default.
The Founder packs neither offered variants for purchase nor followed the current purchase procedure, so we can probably ignore them. The individual mech packs have been the default variant recently; however, the initial Urbanmech was not. Finally, the Resistance mechs include both default and alternates as the special variant.
Indeed, Bishop Steiner successfully lobbied Russ to change the Resistance Zeus from the ZEU-9S to the ZEU-6S, making the Zeus the only non-upgraded R1 mech! With any luck he will help us here.
Therefore we have plenty of precedent to fix this oversight
RAM
ELH
well, in fairness, the 6S was the most common version, having been in production for several hundred years, versus less than a decade. Thus I was actually pointing Russ to the most common version (I actually tried to get the 4R and 9Rs in, too, but yeah the Zeus I lobbied harder)
But I agree with the premise here, though I feel a little bad tweeting because I am massively biased toward that variant, so it is rather self serving.
jss78, on 04 March 2016 - 08:31 AM, said:
Yeah, I think it all depends on which variant each person anticipates playing the most. You'd naturally want to have the "S" version for that variant, to maximize your C-bill earnings.
Personally, I'd rather have the S version for base version PXH-1. I plan to run the PXH-2 reinforcement with ECM and the 1b seems a bit redundant. (Prefer the hardpoints on the PXH-2 vs. 1b.)
But if most other people would prefer the PXH-1b as the S variant, then that's fair enough, and I'll have no issue with making the change.
For people who didn't get the reinforcement pack, I can see the appeal of having an S version of PXH-1b, as that's the only one with ECM for those people.
my biggest push, and one I would love to see the Forums support would solve this for everyone. Which is to make the (S) into a Token that we the Customer/Player get to choose which mech it is placed on, as a 1 time decision, like choosing our faction content.
Then everyone could have their preferred Special, without anyone else getting crapped on. And since they are not using unique geometry on them anymore, there is literally nothing holding it back that I can determine.
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