Dimento Graven, on 24 January 2020 - 06:44 AM, said:
Here's my advice for earning money in this game:
1. Heroes, loyalty, and other cash boosting 'mechs are best to pilot for earning cash.
Yep, I have a champion and a hero for the Wolfhound, Griffin, Orion, and Atlas right now and those are the only 8 mechs Im working on mastering. Later will probably get just a hero clan mech for each weight class.
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2. Take advantage of any premium time you earn through events. Play as much as you can while it's active, you CAN purchase it too, but I admit that at this stage of the game, it's kind of silly to do so. Those of us who have been loyal players, winning 'mech/booster packs from streamer give aways and the like probably have YEARS worth of premium time stockpiled, so I realize it's way too easy for us to say this, still, when you have it, USE it!
I have I think 48 days left of premium time from buying the bundles of the griffin, orion, and atlas.
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3. NEVER.SELL.ANYTHING!!! Or, at the very least, NEVER.SELL.MECHS.OR.ENGINES, and maintain a stockpile of at least of 10 every other component. You sell things at 50% of their purchase value. Do a lot of 'mech configuration and you're spending a LOT of money VERY fast. When I joined 228 and started participating in competetive matches I probably burned through three quarters of a BILLION credits purchasing and outfitting upwards of a hundred different 'mechs (I wanted to make sure I could step in to any role if necessary, no matter how poorly I would perform in it

). It would have easily been double that without my LARGE stockpile of engines and weapons.
I already sold the stock engines (except for the 300's since those can go on 75T and 100T mechs) to pay for the engine I wanted in my current mechs so, I might have screwed up there already but, Im ok on c-bills right now.
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4. UAVs, 40k cbill investments in winning. Winning pays more.
5. Strikes, 40k cbill investments in winning. Winning pays more.
All my scouts (Wolfhounds and "Sparky") I use the UAV and coolshot with and usually always use the UAV unless someone else is doing that job pretty well in the match already and I don't have a useful spot to throw one up. Brawlers I will use the artillery strike for mobs and air strike if I see a line of mechs or if they are hiding behind terrain I'll put the smoke at the base where they cant see and let it walk over the hill onto them. (half the time I forget to use my strikes specially when under attack I forget I have them).
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6. Shoot as many of the enemy as possible. 12 assists per game equals more money.
I have yet to pull that off, hitting every mech on the enemy team. I tend to get focused on a target or whoever is the biggest threat to my team at that moment. Will try this tonight.
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7. ALWAYS PRESS "R" to target the enemy you're shooting at. Again, it results in higher cbill awards.
Always, seen it repeated to death on these forums and now it just annoys me when spectating and I see teammates who don't target enemies that they are shooting at. I will always lock-on(mouse2) and then target spotted (mouse3) as often as I can because I have seen that I am able to kinda manipulate/help direct the team's fire when I do that.
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8. During events, ALWAYS.EQUIP.AMS, you're paid for every enemy missile shot down, and during events, ALL the potatoes come out with their missile 'mechs as apparently, having the computer doing their aiming for them is the ONLY way they're capable of completing it, and for those carrying AMS at least you're getting some monetary compensation for the inconvenience.
Yeah I've noticed these events always have one reward where part of the requirements are shooting down missiles. Otherwise I dont have any mechs that can carry more than one AMS so, I usually dont run it.
I started playing MechWarrior 2, GBL, and Mercenaries when I was I think 12 or 13 in the 90's, later found out it was a board game and had dad order me a few of the sets, read the novels all through high school, played MechWarrior on the SNES, got Mechwarrior 3 and Pirate's Moon(never beat them and still want to go back and replay), then Mechwarrior 4 Vengeance and I think the Black Knight Expansion(never beat MW4 either). Discovered MegaMek and MekHQ a few years ago and started to contribute for that and lived, breathed, and slept Battletech for a few years.
https://bg.battletec...topic=42533.270
https://bg.battletec...7249#msg1197249
https://bg.battletec...p?topic=59106.0
Got burnt out, moved onto modding Brutal Doom (which had mechs too).

And started MWO now that I finally bought a decent computer.