12 replies to this topic

[Akillius]

Many of the cockpit items I don't use, or very rarely.
Also I noticed in today's (May 17, 2016) patch notes it says the Kodiak is released and the SpiritBear Hanging item for it is also now available for 750 MC... but it was supposed to an early adopter reward, so not much point in hanging it up.


What I'd like to see in MWO is the ability to trade cockpit items for other cockpit items.
For example: Christmas lights for isobaric speakers
Let us stack up the items until the total MC value for them is equal or greater then the item to be traded.
Perhaps put a small trade fee on, something like 10-100MC depending on the wanted item's MC value???

There are some players who don't want any cockpit items.
Add the ability to sell them in MWO for C-Bills?
Perhaps 2500 1500 500 cbills per 1 MC of original value?


If you'd like to see cockpit items trade-able and sell-able then just like this post.
Thanks.


Editted: Added a poll.

Edited by Max Rickson, 18 May 2016 - 06:32 AM.

[Wintersdark]

MC based rewards - even mechs - are never sellable. *Shrugs*

They didn't cost you anything either.

[Akillius]

Wintersdark, on 17 May 2016 - 04:48 PM, said:

They didn't cost you anything either.

You've assumed all players are F2P, so let me address this more from my perspective.

For cockpit items that came with packages that I've purchased, these items should be sellable/tradable.
For the few cockpit items that I've purchased with MC, these items should also be sellable/tradable.
I don't want to scroll through junk cockpit items that I can't hide/delete/sell, just to look for the few items I do use or want to keep.

And at the very least the horns need to be separated from the junk to speed up players are in mechlab and decide to add/change the horn...

Edited by Max Rickson, 18 May 2016 - 06:00 AM.

[Wintersdark]

I assumed nothing.im a whale myself, so to speak, so why would I assume everyone is f2p?

What I meant was, the cockpit items are bonuses, you're buying the mechs. If you could sell them for cbills, PGI'd probably increase the cost of the package (or give out fewer).

[Akillius]

Based on you what you wrote, logically PGI should give us the option to delete them, or hide and filter them.

But they don't, and personally I doubt PGI would up the cost of packages based on selling the few rewards.
This doesn't address the issue of items (ie. speakers) that I purchased in game (with MC that I purchased).
But I can tell we will simply disagree on this concept of selling for CBills.

So lets move to my first suggestion to trade cockpit items for other cockpit items.
(And for clarity; when I wrote trade I did not mean with other players.)
The tiny MC transaction fee I originally suggested above should be of interest to PGI to offer us this ability.
Yes it's micro-transactions, but it's more then what PGI is currently getting for cockpit items.

As it currently stands, any items purchased/given are yet another bit of data PGI must retain and track.
But a trade option could help PGI re-monetize those dust-collecting items, & perhaps lessen data retention.

Edited by Max Rickson, 18 May 2016 - 10:28 AM.

[Robinhood78]

At a bare minimum I want the ability to hide items. One of the most useless things the current sorting does is show you owned items that you cannot equip because they are already on another mech. Yeah, thanks for that...

[Johnny Z]

It would be great to sell these. Also the ability to use but hide visually the warhorns.

[Lily from animove]

trading cokcpit items for cockpititems (except uniques and pack special pack stuff) would really be great.

[BD RAIDR]

Great idea.

I'd like to be able to remove cockpit items I don't want from my inventory, and I'd like to be able to sort by not owned (I'm happy that we can already sort by owned).

Edit: I'm mostly interested in faction items, so sorting by faction items would be nice, too. They could sort by mech pre-order items too, etc...

Edited by BD RAIDR, 26 October 2016 - 08:14 PM.

[Kalimaster]

I would like to see this, provided that the trade item is of equal or lesser value. I don't think the trade should apply if the item wanted has a higher MC cost.

[Vidarion]

No need for trading, just resell back to the store for C-Bills or MC. Since these are only available for MC though, I would prefer to be able to sell back for MC. Not necessarily for 100%, but maybe at the same reduction as selling back C-Bill items.

[Peace2U]

bump, Johnny Z.

How about selling unwanted cockpit items for 50% of their value, just like when you sell a mech???
Or 50% value of unwanted item towards trade for another item (should be able to combine items for trade to equal value of new item)
Man this is getting complicated - - -
Peace

[Marshal Jim Duncan]

Or have the option to gift them to your unit coffers or another member of the unit.