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[Mechrophilia]

I'm not sure I understand everything about this skill tree shakeup. Would it be best for me to stop buying modules and/or leveling up mechs for the time being? I'd not like the time im spending lately to be a wasted. Can someone give good advice on this?

[cazidin]

Have you read my post about the new Skill Tree Refund? That might answer a few of your questions.

[Monkey Lover]

I wouldn't buy modules but I would keep leveling up. Every level you increase will give you credits worth XP+cbills.

Modules sound like they will be returned as some type of upgrade credit. It's unknown if they will be worth cbills+XP or just cbills. That is u less you don't care if they're cbill upgrade credits then buy modules.

At this point I have 100+ mechs worth of module credits so I don't need any more lol.

Edited by Monkey Lover, 18 March 2017 - 07:15 AM.

[El Bandito]

The new pseudo-C-Bill is definitely discouraging, but as an avid CW player, I have to keep buying modules in order to perform my best.

[Ghogiel]

Yeah, you can unlock stuff with GXP/XP without geting shafted, but don't buy modules. I'm betting it's a loss of cbills.

[Palfatreos]

Exp and modules cost will be refunded into exp and cbills so if feel free to buy them and don't sell them!



https://mwomercs.com...-status-update/

read under

Regarding Skill Tree Economy, Currency and Skill Refunds, and the Concept of Lost Progress

Edited by Palfatreos, 18 March 2017 - 08:04 AM.

[Ghogiel]

Palfatreos, on 18 March 2017 - 08:00 AM, said:

Exp and modules cost will be refunded into exp and cbills so if feel free to buy them and don't sell them!



https://mwomercs.com...-status-update/

read under

Regarding Skill Tree Economy, Currency and Skill Refunds, and the Concept of Lost Progress

Afaik since they pulled the skill tree for the time being, what has been currently said doesn't indicate anything about directly getting the cbill value of modules back as cbills or something redeeable as cbills which can be spent on other things like mechs. For all we know any cbills spent on modules now may only get us credits that can be spent inside the skill trees or whate ever and not on mechs/equipment

(many are waiting to find out the details with torches and pitchforks close at hand, rightly so because PGI said we'd get refunded cbills from modules multiple times and if we don't it'll make them liars and the shitstorm will be much worse than the whining from the unicorn pokemech players that felt like the progress on lvling +200 mechs was being devalued by the skill tree.)

Edited by Ghogiel, 18 March 2017 - 08:23 AM.

[Monkey Lover]

" He wants to know that his modules will still be refunded. Some players went on module buying sprees"

Mar 14
Russ Bullock‏ @russ_bullock
@Giftzwerg76 @Navid_A1 @Ducky619 yes but again think progression refund not currency



This is the newest Info dealing with modules that I know of.

Edited by Monkey Lover, 18 March 2017 - 10:21 AM.

[Champion of Khorne Lord of Blood]

Monkey Lover, on 18 March 2017 - 10:21 AM, said:

" He wants to know that his modules will still be refunded. Some players went on module buying sprees"

Mar 14
Russ Bullock‏ @russ_bullock
@Giftzwerg76 @Navid_A1 @Ducky619 yes but again think progression refund not currency



This is the newest Info dealing with modules that I know of.

To many people that's much more upsetting than mechs that are mastered now not being mastered in the new skill tree.

The people who bought modules would actually be losing cbills, the people who had mastered mechs that aren't mastered in the new PTS never lost any skill points, they just need more now than before.

Give people their cbills back Russ.

Edit:
This is why I wanted the skill trees released now, not later, its a very likely possibility that it will only get worse.

Edited by Dakota1000, 18 March 2017 - 10:26 AM.

[DAYLEET]

Master everything you have.

Never buy more than one modules, skill tree or not. If you need one you dont have now id go for it but dont buy duplicates.

[Bud Crue]

I'm still assuming the skill tree will be returning, and based on the commentary from PGI https://mwomercs.com...e-status-update and Russ's twitter, I don't expect the layout of the nodes to change much or that they will be pulling back on the nerfs or other aspects that I see as problematic. The changes are going to be of an economic/cost nature based on what they are saying.

So with that in mind I am not buying anything new, am planning on which mechs to get rid of assuming their variants are still being made redundant or simply bad (see nerf charts) and making sure to have at least 15500 over mastery on any mechs that are still viable/competitive/I still irrationally want to keep so that in case the XP cost of a mastered mech stays where it was in the last iteration of the skills tree, they are ready to get fully skilled out.

[DAYLEET]

Bud Crue, on 15 March 2017 - 04:32 AM, said:

I -out of a pure refusal to accept historical precedent- still think a skills tree will happen at some point soon so I am still trying to get all the mastered mechs I care about to 15,500 XP over mastery, so that when they change the numbers again I can piss and moan about it.

Im just doing the flat mastery without overhead. After 21k i want to change mech when i play for grinding purposes. Thats enough to get seism/derp and the perks to keep the mech cooler. Mech i like alot already have the overhead xp.

Yesterday i started looking at the R2 mech i dont play like the crab and BK and i did the basic without upgrading them lol. Stayed on shs and no upgrades beside weapons/engine lol. I hated that they were all energy and i wasnt going to pay cbills for that. The crabs are playable with shs(1.3 dissipation), i think im gona do that tonight.

[Herodes]

Ghogiel, on 18 March 2017 - 08:22 AM, said:

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For all we know any cbills spent on modules now may only get us credits that can be spent inside the skill trees or whate ever and not on mechs/equipment

(many are waiting to find out the details with torches and pitchforks close at hand, rightly so because PGI said we'd get refunded cbills from modules multiple times and if we don't it'll make them liars and the shitstorm will be much worse than the whining from the unicorn pokemech players that felt like the progress on lvling +200 mechs was being devalued by the skill tree.)

That would be very very bad indded.

Dakota1000, on 18 March 2017 - 10:23 AM, said:

To many people that's much more upsetting than mechs that are mastered now not being mastered in the new skill tree.

The people who bought modules would actually be losing cbills, the people who had mastered mechs that aren't mastered in the new PTS never lost any skill points, they just need more now than before.

Give people their cbills back Russ.

Edit:
This is why I wanted the skill trees released now, not later, its a very likely possibility that it will only get worse.

That would basically mean that I'd have to sell my modules at half the price in order to get at least some C-Bills to buy all the new tech, especially the LFEs. En masse.
That would suck. Big time.

[Trev Firestorm]

Monkey Lover, on 18 March 2017 - 10:21 AM, said:

" He wants to know that his modules will still be refunded. Some players went on module buying sprees"

Mar 14
Russ Bullock‏ @russ_bullock
@Giftzwerg76 @Navid_A1 @Ducky619 yes but again think progression refund not currency



This is the newest Info dealing with modules that I know of.

What the crap? So they are making the exact same mistake but in the other direction now... goddamnit PGI will you ever get it together?

[chucklesMuch]

Skills definitely, though I'm not using anymore gxp on mech skills.

Modules, only if I want one that I dont already have. Otherwise I'm just swapping them from mech to mech.

In general I'm not really wanting to spend cbills on anything as I'm wanting to save for new tech. So I'm also likely to engine swap alot more now too.

[Nightmare1]

You can never have enough mudules. If you purchase enough, you can even create your own mudule puddule to splish-splash around in.