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Right now, even if you buy all your mech with cash or mc you need to buy expensive upgrades like armor and DHS. You also need to buy expensive engine and even for clanners now with their iiC. My last new mech were HGN iic and i couldnt afford to xl them on purchase and now i guess never will.
Look at everything that cost real life money in this game. Cockpit customisation, Colours, Pattern, MechBays and ofcourse battlemechs, premium time. You also have those you dont need to spend cash on but could if you want; xp conversion, cbills pack, consumables. Are we going to add a Mastery purchase? Because i don't see it viable with the cbill system but i can't see the mc/cash option. No im not paying cash for mastery but im tryign to find the logic here.
The cost is looming everywhere. For example; I was seriously looking at the Javelin preorder, breaking my own preorder rule, for the tree colours but now all i see is 45million price tag coming with it. The 6million cbills in the pack does not even pay for the double heatsink upgrade. It... does not even upgrade a single mech! Even if the cost of mastery was paid in mechpack for all included mech, im still left with my stable of mech that's unusable even by my standard.
Skill Tree customisation should be fun, make you want to spend time with your mech, devise new plans and ways to play your mech. Not a depressing experience because of how expensive it is and even worse if you dont make a good build or need to change.
Look at my stable, i try to have my mech with different loadout, i like them to be distinct as much as i can. I use meta on some mech ofcourse but Im not a meta guy. The skill tree is great for me because thats more choice for me. But i can't imagine doing that now, and i can't imagine doing the time to just be able to tweak those mech to an acceptable level. Within the first week, Quick Drop will be CW all over again. Everyone with the same mech good mech and that one good loadout. Not because it's important to perform but because no one will be able to afford to do anything else. It's fine to go meta for CW, not being able to afford anything else isnt. We are putting a price on FUN here.
This is different from every change we have had so far. I never cared for my mech to get nerfed, ill change it. I never cared for general gameplay change that gets harder or wildly different, ill adapt. But i totaly care to not be able to afford to play most of my 161 mech because without mastery they are severly at disadvantage. It's one thing to make me grind new mech, it's another to negate all the works i put in my current mech.
All in all, i think the cbill cost of mastering and respecing needs to be removed. It adds nothing positive to the game. Ill grind the xp of my new mech. I'll see them come alive as i get more perks, i actualy like that. But i
At the rate i change mech every night and tweak them when i play, ill last less than two weeks. Then all my mech with be behind a pay wall. A pay wall i already paid ffs.
Edited by DAYLEET, 09 February 2017 - 04:41 PM.
