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[PFC Carsten]

So many sales recently (and upcoming). Very nice gesture indeed, PGI.

[Sky Hawk]

So.. the Sales goes for about 5 days from now... And if anyone looking for some cheap stuffs:

- UZL for XL300

- ASN for XL280

[Fox the Apprentice]

Matt Newman, on 16 December 2017 - 08:39 PM, said:

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Describe this Best ever C-Bill sale. I will see what I can do.
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Take the most used ~50% variants and leave them as is, but put the ~50% least used mechs on sale. (Oh, and look into possibly buffing the least used mechs in a future update after verifying the mech sale doesn't bring up any new tactics with those chassis.)

braveheart95, on 16 December 2017 - 04:48 PM, said:

First post. Always wanted to say that.

But you were second! The topic creator always has first post .

[MrKvola]

Shock21, on 17 December 2017 - 07:00 AM, said:

Having the Mech bay sale come after the Mech sale sort of comes off as trolling your customers

Really? Here I thought that people know by now that when there is a 50% sale on 'mechbays you stock up well in advance. There was one recently, I think it was part of the Black Friday sale.

[KrocodockleTheBooBoxLoader-GetIn]

I liked the 30% off all packs. If they did that next week I'd probably pick up a couple ultimate packs

[Rhaezor]

Does the 7 day xmas premium code has an activation time limit? And the mechcon patterns, do they have a redeem time limit?

[arcana75]

ShinRazor, on 17 December 2017 - 05:02 PM, said:

Does the 7 day xmas premium code has an activation time limit? And the mechcon patterns, do they have a redeem time limit?

My colour unlocks from Resistance/Origin mech packs don't have a time limit from the CONTENT link in PROFILE. The MechCon patterns are in the same place and too don't show a time limit, so my guess is no there's no time limit.

7 Days PT I read somewhere you have up to Feb but don't take my word for it.

[Zh0u]

ShinRazor, on 17 December 2017 - 05:02 PM, said:

Does the 7 day xmas premium code has an activation time limit? And the mechcon patterns, do they have a redeem time limit?

Matt answered here: https://mwomercs.com...ost__p__5974909

[ThomasAH]

Matt Newman, on 16 December 2017 - 08:39 PM, said:

Describe this Best ever C-Bill sale. I will see what I can do.

Imagine if there was a Mech bay sale in the near future tho.

My suggestions for C-Bill Mech sales:

• Always accompany Mech sales with Mech bay sales (how near is "near" in above statement?)
  
• Give hints as when to expect the next pattern sale (so these new Mechs can get new clothes)
  
• Tell us how the subset of Mechs on sale was determined (and add a hint about the next subsets)
  
• More smaller sales instead of few big sales, so people can earn C-Bills in-between these sales (or more big sales, but this might spoil us too much )

My personal best C-Bill sale would include the following Mechs to complete my IS collection, but I could very well understand if others had different preferences :


COM-3A
COM-1B
TBT-3C
TBT-5N
TBT-7K
VND-1AA
VND-1R
ON1-K
ON1-M
ON1-V
ON1-VA
AWS-8R
AWS-8T
HGN-733
HGN-733C
AS7-D (I sold this one years ago, but I would buy it again)


And while I have your attention (at least I hope so), the following might be important for Mech package sales:

It would be nice if XP/SP could be transferred from non-(S) Mechs to their equivalent (S) version (and probably for (C), (I), ® and such, too), because personally I'm reluctant to invest SP in the normal versions in case I want to upgrade to the (S) version later. Or I'm reluctant to upgrade to the (S) version, because I already invested 91 SP (or more!) in the normal version.
Do others feel the same?

[dominikabra]

Sky Hawk, on 17 December 2017 - 01:07 PM, said:

So.. the Sales goes for about 5 days from now... And if anyone looking for some cheap stuffs:

- UZL for XL300

- ASN for XL280

Is there something weird going on with the prices? I purchase de Uziel 3P for 4.981.780 c-bills and the selling price is only 776.612 c-bills? That's not roughly a 15% of the sale price and not even a 10% of the original price!

Even if it's dependant on the purchase price (which I'm pretty sure it is), it seems a bit off.

At the same time, for instance, my Atlas 7D which can be purchased for 9.820.075 c-bills has a sell price of 2.959.321 c-bills. That's more like a 30% which is what one would expect. I must be doing something wrong...

Edited by dominikabra, 18 December 2017 - 01:19 AM.

[ThomasAH]

dominikabra, on 18 December 2017 - 01:17 AM, said:

Is there something weird going on with the prices? I purchase de Uziel 3P for 4.981.780 c-bills and the selling price is only 776.612 c-bills? That's not roughly a 15% of the sale price and not even a 10% of the original price!

That's the normal price. Only if you sell the included components you will get 50% of the original price, e.g. 2450000 c-bills for the included XL300. But you will probably want to keep that

[dominikabra]

ThomasAH, on 18 December 2017 - 02:01 AM, said:

That's the normal price. Only if you sell the included components you will get 50% of the original price, e.g. 2450000 c-bills for the included XL300. But you will probably want to keep that

Thanks but that's still weird because the Uziel is untouched. I'm trying to sell it exactly like I purchased it and still getting that ridiculously low price.

Edited by dominikabra, 18 December 2017 - 03:00 AM.

[arcana75]

Matt Newman, on 16 December 2017 - 08:39 PM, said:

Describe this Best ever C-Bill sale. I will see what I can do.

That's of course everything at 50% off!

[ThomasAH]

dominikabra, on 18 December 2017 - 02:38 AM, said:

Thanks but that's still weird because the Uziel is untouched. I'm trying to sell it exactly like I purchased it and still getting that ridiculously low price.

If you click on the sell button for the first time (Edit: for the final sale you will need to click on OK afterwards), you will get a dialog window that allows you ticking a checkbox to sell the equipment, too.

Edited by ThomasAH, 18 December 2017 - 03:24 AM.

[dominikabra]

ThomasAH, on 18 December 2017 - 03:24 AM, said:

If you click on the sell button for the first time (Edit: for the final sale you will need to click on OK afterwards), you will get a dialog window that allows you ticking a checkbox to sell the equipment, too.

Thank you very much, sir! That makes much more sense now.

Had only rage-sold the BLR-1G a long time ago and didn't even care to look at the figures, just wanted that PoS far away from my mechbays, so I honestly had no clue about the selling price and consequences.

Edited by dominikabra, 18 December 2017 - 04:50 AM.

[I L L]

Any chance we get our tournament prizes so I can buy some of these hero mechs?

[Yumoshiri]

Matt Newman, on 16 December 2017 - 08:39 PM, said:

Describe this Best ever C-Bill sale. I will see what I can do.



Imagine if there was a Mech bay sale in the near future tho.

Make sales more fun. All variants on sale is nice to complete sets you really want. But I'd recommend that you put a single variant of one chassis on big sale (50 or 60%), as a teaser to people to enjoy said mech, and maybe be an incentive for them to buy the others normally or with a regular sale. Like, gimme a single Annihilator for sale. I'd like to test ride one of those beasts before deciding to buy them for $ or cbills. Urban mech sales are always fun. And what happened to Saint Atlas and Commando elf? Definetely has to go on sale
Another idea: since christmas is about bonding with family and friends, give a sale on mechs that are primary support. AMS mechs, ECM mechs, some armor fatties, flamers, scouts..

while you're at it acknlowedging support is a viable thing in MWO, please also make it more rewarding in the game somehow

Also, reducing the upgrade cost for double heat sinks etc during a sale would be much appreciated. IS mechs barely save you any c-bills during a sale, because you consider buying a new engine, DHS, and armor, whereas for clan that is also included.

[sub2000]

Brother MEX, on 16 December 2017 - 11:02 PM, said:

We already had 50% off some mechs in the past ... better ask for 666°%

it is same actually. Quite a few smartasses got their account zeroed as a result of the last 50% discount of clam mechs. Shouldn't happen anymore I hope. So, no 50% discount, sorry.

Discount on mech upgrades, engines etc. would be something very special. I spend more than original cost on IS mechs usually because of all these additional costs.

Edited by sub2000, 19 December 2017 - 10:25 AM.

[ThomasAH]

sub2000, on 19 December 2017 - 10:24 AM, said:

Discount on mech upgrades, engines etc. would be something very special. I spend more than original cost on IS mechs usually because of all these additional costs.

Sounds like something you could earn in FP: Vouchers for tech upgrades, omnipods, etc. ... you helped someone, now they give you special offers when using their upgrade services

[Spaartaaa]

sub2000, on 19 December 2017 - 10:24 AM, said:

it is same actually. Quite a few smartasses got their account zeroed as a result of the last 50% discount of clam mechs. Shouldn't happen anymore I hope. So, no 50% discount, sorry.
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What do you mean, zeroed? Why and what for?