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[Scout Derek]

A word of advice to new players:

Don't ever open a supply cache. Ever.




(I was just messing around and wanted to see if I could get anything good, though I knew I wouldn't. PGI pls)

[Malcolm Vordermark]

Yeah, they said its not a 1/8 chance so I don't see any reason to open them unless I got a key from an event.

[El Bandito]

You sir, suck at the crate opening game. One should only open crates that have overwhelming number of desirable goods in them, and sell the rest. I, on the other hand, got two mechbays yesterday from just two crates, because I know how to play the crate game.

Edited by El Bandito, 22 March 2017 - 05:43 PM.

[Bilbo]

On the plus side, it's free c-bills no matter what you get. Open them when you get a free key and sell the contents if you don't get the good stuff. Sell the ones that don't have good stuff straight away.

[Mystere]

Nothing beats getting several thousand MC so far.

[KingCobra]

IM a sucker I keep beliving IM going to get that mech in the supply cashes but every time I open one and do get the mech to land it sits on it for like 10 seconds then bounces off to some other item usually a blue item so Sad I never get that mech had it do that like 10+ times.

Hey Tina look at my TOPIC on Store mech bundles and chat it to Russ?

Edited by KingCobra, 22 March 2017 - 05:44 PM.

[JoanTheLiar]

Eh.. anyone with a brain knows not to spend mc to buy keys when you can buy colors and decals to pump out your mech.
Just wait for free keys and spend it on crates with extra keys rewards.

[Alistair Winter]

It's almost as if the game is rigged to be more profitable for PGI than for the players!

[Pwnographic Kerensky]

Box of Shame is what we call them!

[Malcolm Vordermark]

They should have made everything in the crates be something that can only be bought with MC.

[ScrapIron Prime]

Yeah, don't buy MC to open crates. Sell the crates for 50,000 cbills, use free keys on the interesting ones, and if you happen to have extra MC left over from some other purchase, THEN you splurge on a key or two.

I firmly believe that's what the crates are for... getting you to spend down your MC balance so you have to buy more the next time you need a big purchase. Every bit of revenue counts for a F2P game!

[LordNothing]

the only difference between the supply caches and a slot machine, is that when you put your money in the slot machine, sometimes it spits some out.

25 mc is a lot to spend on a jump jet. when new tech comes out it would be in pgi's best interest to load these things up with the new weapons. they might actually get some income out of them.

[Scout Derek]

Rouken Vordermark, on 22 March 2017 - 05:35 PM, said:

Yeah, they said its not a 1/8 chance so I don't see any reason to open them unless I got a key from an event.

I think it's more like 1/5 chance of getting a common lol.

ScrapIron Prime, on 22 March 2017 - 06:12 PM, said:

Yeah, don't buy MC to open crates. Sell the crates for 50,000 cbills, use free keys on the interesting ones, and if you happen to have extra MC left over from some other purchase, THEN you splurge on a key or two.

I firmly believe that's what the crates are for... getting you to spend down your MC balance so you have to buy more the next time you need a big purchase. Every bit of revenue counts for a F2P game!

I know man. this video was made for ****s and giggles to show how bad they were

JoanTheLiar, on 22 March 2017 - 05:45 PM, said:

Eh.. anyone with a brain knows not to spend mc to buy keys when you can buy colors and decals to pump out your mech.
Just wait for free keys and spend it on crates with extra keys rewards.

Read response to Scrapiron.

[Skanderborg]

Where can i get this super fly sound track in the video?

[Scout Derek]

Skanderborg, on 22 March 2017 - 07:06 PM, said:

Where can i get this super fly sound track in the video?

[Kaeb Odellas]

I open 2 crates yesterday.

One had some nice rares, but the reason I opened it was the 500k C-Bills as a common item. Naturally I bought a key for it and got the 500k C-Bills. A worthy trade for 25 MC. The second gave me 50 MC, so I broke even on the keys.

Don't open a crate unless you actually want the common items.

[Felbombling]

Honestly, the players that should open them are newer space-poor players who are willing to sink a few bucks into the game. The payoffs from the caches are way better than buying C-Bills outright with a package in the store. If you get a usable weapon or engine, great. If not, sell the junk you won't use. You'd have to be really unlucky to get something worth less than 45000 C-Bills in value as a sale item, which I think is the benchmark you'd break even at for the fifteen cents the key costs you. Anything above that is gravy.

If you're already sitting on a pile of C-Bills, then yeah... take Scout Derek's advice.

[chucklesMuch]

Sold 28 opened two (free keys)... as with all of my supply crates I received the common items each time...

[Juodas Varnas]

The crates would only be worth it, if they had a chance to contain the Scorpion.

I'd probably spend all my MC on crates then.

[KodiakGW]

Yep, I said in another thread, only one worth trying to me are the ones with 50MC as a common (light blue) item. Have a better chance of breaking even.