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[Nine-Ball]

Long story short, PGI should allow people to "create" their own Hero Mechs.

Since Hero Mechs are generally a single mech associated with said pilot, this would theoretically restrict them to 1 per account. Ontop of that, bringing back the old "rule of 3" you would need to also master 3 mechs of the chosen chasis. Once done meeting those requirements you would then need to plunk down some coin relative to the hero mech of a given chasis; assaults would be more expensive then heavies, etc. I suppose you could also make it a super-rare cache drop as well.

Anyways, once all is said and done you would fill out a multi-choice quiz akin to those oldschool RPG creation ones and this, along with your proposed changes to said mech would be submitted for approval by a quality control "board" (PGI staff) and some back and forth for 100% conformation of what you paid for is both "fair" and accurate. You request the hardpoint changes for your mech and the multi-choice quiz is to determine what sort of buffs you would get.

As for paint-job that would be a toughie; although I suppose giving them a free paintjob of choice would suffice in lieu of not having to go through the pain of making custom ones.

Then allow them to give it a snappy name (restrictive of course) with a custom designation and viola, hoards of people wanting their own custom mech will be throwing money at you.

To beta-test and also hopefully bring back some Founders you would start with giving them first shot at opening pandora's box.

Then with each successive season you would expand the people allowed from there, going by date and importance (founders > builders > pack owners > etc). Submission of a custom mech should take one season to implement, or whenever an update comes out. At the very least 3 months of back and forth dialogue.

[ScrapIron Prime]

Just sell an item that upgrades a single mech to a Hero mech with +30% cBills, no geometry or camo changes required. Essentially pay money to make your favorite ride grind more cBills. No need to limit it to one per player, and a player who is willing to fork out the cash to upgrade a mech like this is also going to spring for their own camo and decals.

If you DO want to make it look unique, then unlock the Solaris Bolt-on gear in regular play to these mechs. Then players can pay for these as well. More toys for us, more funding for PGI.