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PGI, please provide us with features to be able to hire out and/or share our mechs.
1. Public Hire
The mechs would be selectable from the main home screen. It would work exatcly the same as Trial mechs, except the mechs are placed for hire by players.
The player hiring the mech (the client) puts down a deposit of C-Bills and/or MC to cover the cost of consumed modules (UAVs, Cool Shots, etc). If these are not used, the client gets back their deposit. Note that this does not transfer funds between players, you're just paying for what you use.
The player hiring out the mech (the provider) gets a cut of the client's C-Bill winnings. This prevents any money transfer between players and enables players to hire mechs without having to gamble their currency. Note that other currency such as EXP are not affected, this is only related to C-Bills.
The provider determines the percentage they take from the winnings, and this is clearly displayed in the hire list (and even sortable by percentage in the same fashion that you would sort alphabetically or by value). Providers would then endeavour to provide effective and good-looking mechs, complete with cool cockpit items and powerful camo/colour combinations.
Early/Mid providers will compete by making decent mechs at a low percentage, while high-end players will hire out their ultra-optimized mechs at high percentages. I can even see 'celebrity players' hiring out their mechs at 100%, meaning you just get the pleasure of using a 'perfect' mech, further encouraging players to get into the mechlab and enhance their mechs to emulate the power.
This would clearly benefit the player community, adding new purpose and dimension to mech customization - This would make the community truly flourish.
It would also greatly benefit PGI since it would encourage players to purchase more camos, colours, warhorns, cockpit items, etc. It would also alleviate or prevent entirely the complaints for "more trial mechs".
Everybody wins.
2. Unit Share
As an offshoot of the above Public Hire idea, it would be great for us to be able to share our mechs among Unit members. Again, this would be selectable in the same way we select Trial Mechs. Sharing mechs within the unit would only incur the consumables deposit (IE: The percentage fee is always 0% among unit members).
This would benefit the game since it would add more purpose to joining a unit. A unit's character would be given more depth by the mechs it typically runs and has available to its members.
Also this would be a fantastic way to encourage newer players to join units, and make it much easier for experienced players to help newer players get into the community.
PGI, think about that... More player integration = More players = More revenue $$$.
Again, Everybody wins.
Edited by Generic Internetter, 01 May 2017 - 04:37 AM.
