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[LordNothing]

still a long way to go to win pokemechs metagame.

incidentally i may have mastered every mech in the game (barring todays gift mechs and a couple hellfires which are half done), at least the ones you can obtain with cbills. before the skill tree i used the practice of buying 3 mechs, master them (on the old system before the trees), sell the ones i dont like and buy the others. eventully i had my one or two favorite variants of each chassis, with the others being fully mastered at the point of sale. these were all refunded as 91 skill points when the skill tree rolls out, even though i don't presently own all of them.

there isnt much point to having every c and s variant, especially at this level of completion. those are good for bootstraping your cbill horde or getting through the leveling process faster, or grinding gxp, which the sale of gsp kind of makes superflous. and heroes is possibly the longer term goal, even though i own all the light heroes, all the clan assault heroes, and all but 3 clan mediums and am half way through the remainder.

i am however finally down to my last hundred million cbills. with reskills only partially completed its only a matter of time till i cash in my hundreds of surplus medium lasers and surplus engines in questionable rating brackets.

Edited by LordNothing, 24 December 2022 - 08:01 PM.

[JediPanther]

That sounds like it was fun. I find mechs play too similar to each other after a while so I don't have as many. Since the IS allow swapping of stuff (long before clans) I just did that. While I'm not a fraction loyalist I have a few number of clankers. I like the is mechs much more than clans. My long term goal for the game was to master lrms and the catapults. All but one or two cptls have 91 active skills. Now I'm just working on being space rich while avoiding that gxp conversion rate.

Like you I have a huge back pile of weapons,armor engines and far too many tags striped from mechs yet I keep them to outfit my mechs as my bad habbit is to strip mechs after I play them to re use the stuff. I'm constantly re building my mechs so use the stock pile. My way of getting is just use boosted mechs for xp/cb then buy on sales.

[w0qj]

That occasional Bundle Sale for 13 Mechbay pack is invaluable in getting (many) more mechbays for Standard Variant procuring...

In fact, there is just such a sale as of this writing... hurry up before it's gone!
https://mwomercs.com/store/bundles

[LordNothing]

w0qj, on 25 December 2022 - 10:04 AM, said:

That occasional Bundle Sale for 13 Mechbay pack is invaluable in getting (many) more mechbays for Standard Variant procuring...

In fact, there is just such a sale as of this writing... hurry up before it's gone!
https://mwomercs.com/store/bundles

yes those alone are responsible for the last 150 purchases easy. fortunately there was a mech bay sale and i just received a boatload of mc, so i restocked my bays. i reserved enough for my next hero mech when it goes on sale and converted the rest to mechbays. im still cbill short otherwise id have converted all of them.

Edited by LordNothing, 25 December 2022 - 10:15 AM.

[sycocys]

I just got all my IS mediums refit and skilled the other day, including the few I just picked up. Did the clan mediums I like playing, but not a huge fan of most of the clan mechs in the medium range though I may take a second pass after I played around with heavy lasers.

The cool thing that happened for me while doing it the past couple weeks is that I found a lot of fun in lppc's and one of the mechs/chassis I quite disliked before has now become one of my favorites to run.

[Davegt27]

LordNothing, on 24 December 2022 - 07:56 PM, said:

still a long way to go to win pokemechs metagame.

incidentally i may have mastered every mech in the game (barring todays gift mechs and a couple hellfires which are half done), at least the ones you can obtain with cbills. before the skill tree i used the practice of buying 3 mechs, master them (on the old system before the trees), sell the ones i dont like and buy the others. eventully i had my one or two favorite variants of each chassis, with the others being fully mastered at the point of sale. these were all refunded as 91 skill points when the skill tree rolls out, even though i don't presently own all of them.

there isnt much point to having every c and s variant, especially at this level of completion. those are good for bootstraping your cbill horde or getting through the leveling process faster, or grinding gxp, which the sale of gsp kind of makes superflous. and heroes is possibly the longer term goal, even though i own all the light heroes, all the clan assault heroes, and all but 3 clan mediums and am half way through the remainder.

i am however finally down to my last hundred million cbills. with reskills only partially completed its only a matter of time till i cash in my hundreds of surplus medium lasers and surplus engines in questionable rating brackets.

500 Mechs that is amazing

[PocketYoda]

Apparently i have 422... I can't afford mechs at this time.. Its hard to justify a few mechs at the same price as a full AAA game. Even on sale its painful.

[Curccu]

PocketYoda, on 27 December 2022 - 03:28 PM, said:

Apparently i have 422... I can't afford mechs at this time.. Its hard to justify a few mechs at the same price as a full AAA game. Even on sale its painful.

C-Bills?

[LordNothing]

yea. what you do is play all events to completion, stack and store mc/cbills/loot, wait for mechbay/mech sales. i think that most of my mechs i didnt pay for with real money. though i did buy a number of mech packs. i also got a lot of the low hanging fruit mechbays in fp, though i dont think you could get enough games in fp to get those anymore, not even the first one at level 6.

[Curccu]

LordNothing, on 28 December 2022 - 07:18 AM, said:

yea. what you do is play all events to completion, stack and store mc/cbills/loot, wait for mechbay/mech sales. i think that most of my mechs i didnt pay for with real money. though i did buy a number of mech packs. i also got a lot of the low hanging fruit mechbays in fp, though i dont think you could get enough games in fp to get those anymore, not even the first one at level 6.

Yeah no need to use real money really... Sure I have bought all clan packs,Phoenix and punch of single mech releases and few 25k MC packs but this game has given me ridiculous amount of free MC (Comp, FP, Solaris, Events) since closed beta (over 140k MC for me so far, Yeah I was interested about it and did count it) that anyone can have hundreds of mechs with just playing the game... that MC I have gotten free in this game can buy almost 950 mechbays from sale.

[Chound]

It looks like I'm going to miss the holiday bonus event. I'm trying to revive my PC and I don't know if I can get MWO loaded and get a 50 match score. I'm not much of a brawler, I'm more of a long to medium fire support style of person.

[METAL SEPARATOR]

Holy cow! That's a lot of mechs.

[Davegt27]

this Dec has been the best ever for MWO free stuff

just amazing

Thanks PGI

[PocketYoda]

Curccu, on 28 December 2022 - 03:20 AM, said:

C-Bills?

At 422 mechs there are very few Cbills mechs i don't own that are worth running, i almost totally run hero type variants these days because they make more cbills.. i have almost every hero, S and some P etc.

Edited by PocketYoda, 30 December 2022 - 07:12 PM.

[LordNothing]

i agree most mechs are not worth buying or mastering and simply playing them is enough to drop your psr like a stone. i suppose you can pokemech with full equip and mastery if you have a large number of metamechs. you earn gxp i think at a rate of 1:10 so it would take you 10x longer to master, but you could do it without contaminating your scores. you can speed them along by farming up 2x bonuses and champions i think will make it 30% less slow.

i generally avoid collecting c mechs but i do have a small number from events. nothing i would consider exceptionally meta. but i could play all of them for their 2x xp bonus and it would take a few hours.

Edited by LordNothing, 30 December 2022 - 05:14 PM.