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[Lily from animove]

So usually I am always in for CW events.

But damn saturday was going like this:

Logging in:
Realising I have to skill all my Dropdecks mechs and equipping newtech.
Skilling my ADR Prime.
Losing motivation for this process.
Messing a bit around with my SNV loadouts on the testing ground.
Logging out for lunch.
doing daddy stuff.

suddenly tuesday and not played MWO.

In the current way shape and form the entire time I can spent on my PC is totally not motivatng me to spent it on MWO, as the entire process of skilling and new techexperimenting just in the mechlab is taking soooo much time that I lose motivation before even dropping.


Since the website is anyways linked to our ingame account, can we please get a mobile app or Website where we can access the Mechlab and skills from? Then I could at least during the time in the tram or wherever I have access adjust my mechs and spent my time playing when beeing at home and having time.

[Shifty McSwift]

Just skill your old favorites up and run with pre patch builds, they will do fine..


There are tree paths you will find pretty good for most builds, with some variations, it all depends on your playstyle and mech choices, but mostly just...

[LordNothing]

its the damn cbills. dispite all the options available i havent changed out my drop deck form the hero lineup currently employed becaus im broke. with all hero decks, premium time, and a 30% contract bonus i still am barely covering the cost of consumables. its like they severely toned down the payouts. did a 2k damage game and only got 600k with all the above bonuses. i cant make money fast enough. granted i have bought 13 lfes and a lot of new guns, but im always broke.

[The6thMessenger]

[RottenFoot]

programs like this used to be great a couple years back, no update for it tho https://keikun17.git...heat_simulator/

maybe something similar where you could test a build merely on numbers and save loadouts onto mwo profile?..I would like this.

Edited by RottenFoot, 25 July 2017 - 02:45 AM.

[Bud Crue]

Lily from animove, on 25 July 2017 - 01:06 AM, said:

In the current way shape and form the entire time I can spent on my PC is totally not motivatng me to spent it on MWO, as the entire process of skilling and new techexperimenting just in the mechlab is taking soooo much time that I lose motivation before even dropping.


Since the website is anyways linked to our ingame account, can we please get a mobile app or Website where we can access the Mechlab and skills from? Then I could at least during the time in the tram or wherever I have access adjust my mechs and spent my time playing when beeing at home and having time.

Yes. This would be wonderful. As it is I get about an hour to maybe 90 minutes tops on those days that I am able to play. When I can actually log int to play, I'd prefer to play, rather than build mechs, **** with the skills tree, realize I screwed up, rebuild, **** with the skills tree, etc. That's all I've been doing of late. Managed to play a few CW matches thanks to the event, but I am running a very unoptimized deck and having an interface to do some building and optimizing without having to log into to the actual client would be great. Alas, dare to dream.

[chucklesMuch]

Lily from animove, on 25 July 2017 - 01:06 AM, said:

Since the website is anyways linked to our ingame account, can we please get a mobile app or Website where we can access the Mechlab and skills from? Then I could at least during the time in the tram or wherever I have access adjust my mechs and spent my time playing when beeing at home and having time.

Yeah that would be mint! - would awesome be something else to do whilst waiting for drops

[Davegt27]

yep sounds like a good idea

3 years later it will be done lol

[Yellonet]

Lily from animove, on 25 July 2017 - 01:06 AM, said:

doing daddy stuff.

You're not a woman?

[Zeoraimer]

+1 to this feature request.

[Lily from animove]

Well, if you play mobile games you see a ton of weirdo MMO's and browser games also getting ingame apps. It would actually be cool to get a kind of mobile game of MWO allowing us to also access the Mechlab. HBS for example could easily make a mobile game out of that battletehc game, all they need is lower the graphics to a mobile friendly level. I sometimes feel classic PC game developers underestimate the opportunaty to make graphical simplier versions of their PC games.

I recently downlaoded OTTD for my mobile, and while controlling it is a bit weird and not the best it's still fun to play a good old game on the mobile. (At leats better than all those crappy pay 20€ for shity content pack biulder games that flood the mobiles)


A mechlab via web access or App would just be great. they oculd also add some minigames to let people make some C-bills. Like classicsidescrolling shooter or typical mobile games like bubble shooter just with a mechwarrior like themed stuff in the background. Not sure how fwar licenses go of MWO to be only for PC further more.

Yellonet, on 25 July 2017 - 04:25 AM, said:

You're not a woman?

The Firs account I used was messed up SO i had to make another one. Lily is a fine dummy for things that I initiate anddon't have any background.

Edited by Lily from animove, 25 July 2017 - 11:23 PM.

[Scratx]

The biggest myth of the NewTech dropping in is... that you have to use any of it at all.

All of your older builds still work just as they did before. If you were happy with them, odds are you'll probably still be happy with them now.

[Wiley Coyote]

+1 to external mechlab

Edited by Wiley Coyote, 25 July 2017 - 07:05 AM.

[Cruxs]

This is exactly me. Since the skill maze I've built two of my hundreds of mechs. I played a few matches logged off and started remodeling my kitchen.

[Pur]

Lily, what is your native language? Just curious.

[Coolant]

Skunkworks for Windows Phone...great Mechlab utility

[HGAK47]

Yellonet, on 25 July 2017 - 04:25 AM, said:

You're not a woman?

1st rule of the internet - Things are never quite what they seem.

[Mike Oakenwall - the khadoran]

i think you take the skill tree to seriously... just click in a 91 point tree and run it.. Iv found it easier to just go with my guts and try the mech in combat and make adjustments. Dont spend to much time thinking what the best build is, every mech is different. Who cares if you dont do your best in 1 match out of the 1k you have played ..well thats my view on it.

[patataman]

Fortunately i skilled one of my drop decks (well, not really, 3 out of 4 mechs, but it's close enough) during the weeks following the skill tree patch. I still have only 3 mastered mechs out of 130.

But TBH it's the in game UI what i find disgusting to use. If not for this https://kitlaan.gitlab.io/mwoskill/ i would have 0 mastered mechs lol

It would be great to have some kind of mechlab / skill tree app integrated with the web site profile. I guess at some point it was planned. If not, why have a list of all your owned mechs in the profile?

[Lily from animove]

King Harkinian, on 25 July 2017 - 08:00 AM, said:

Lily, what is your native language? Just curious.

german

Mike Oakenwall - the khadoran, on 25 July 2017 - 08:48 AM, said:

i think you take the skill tree to seriously... just click in a 91 point tree and run it.. Iv found it easier to just go with my guts and try the mech in combat and make adjustments. Dont spend to much time thinking what the best build is, every mech is different. Who cares if you dont do your best in 1 match out of the 1k you have played ..well thats my view on it.

it kinda is seriously, if you build inferior stuff you also screw upmatches for your teammates, In single player games thats fine. But given that PGI also "baances" from performance data and seeing all those IS crap builds used in FW you should relaise that the worst for the game is people bringing just something for the sake of something.

The mechlab is a game in the game and part of a pilots success, and usually I like this gind of minigame but the entire process and UI makes this process too annoying and time consuming at all.

Also, since respeccing isn't free making quick and half baked choices now mean expensive adjustments later. Would be more fun if PGI made unlocks possible and free rechoosing between all nodes one has unlocked.

Edited by Lily from animove, 25 July 2017 - 11:32 PM.