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[KingNobody]

I dislike the idea of Clan Tech being MC only, it would be the very definition of P2W. I would pay for external visual elements to add to my 'mech like a sign that says "Front Towards Enemy", "Do Not Eat", or "Caution, Crushing Hazard", maybe googly eyes or springy antennae for the 'mechs head. New, funny paint jobs/patterns would also be cool, like painting a tuxedo on an Atlas or painting a cartoon puppy face over the head/ears of a Catapult. Baby clothes for Commandos (diaper, bonnet and soother) and feathered patterns for Ravens. Roman armor patterns for Centurions, and of course a clown suit (with shoes) for the Awesome.


The possibilities for self-amusement are endless.

[Tharkan Stuermer]

blinkin, on 28 December 2012 - 01:33 PM, said:

as long as we will pay for their lawyers when they get sued.

No, because the ingame designs are different than the original minis or illustrations, just take a look at the Project Phoenix. I'd like to have some unseen designs, too, even if they look like the PP-Mechs

In addition, I would pay for House-specific and unit specific camos.

[WiCkEd]

Tharkan Stuermer, on 01 January 2013 - 03:11 AM, said:

In addition, I would pay for House-specific and unit specific camos.

Those will be included with your in-game rank for your individual house as per the most recent DEV Q&A thread.

Edited by WiCkEd, 01 January 2013 - 06:23 AM.

[Aramoro999]

Sorry guys, but...3rd person view, cant live whitout that

thaats all...

[Gremlich Johns]

blinkin, on 30 December 2012 - 11:28 AM, said:

for those who do not know: video game creation follows the same general format as car manufacturing. different parts are made by different people during different stages and then all of those parts are brought together and attached to the final product.

And cars in North America are made by union members, driving up the cost of a vehicle significantly with built in obsolescence and drastic loss in value once purchased. I do see the corollary with the product thus far. I have yet to realize much value for my initial founder's investment in this product. Oh, I like the economy for matches won/loss, but the mechs and components are a tad unrealistically priced. I mean, an XL engine that costs as much as a medium mech? really! Now THAT is union-based pricing.

Aramoro999, on 01 January 2013 - 09:17 AM, said:

Sorry guys, but...3rd person view, cant live whitout that

thaats all...

most have and will continue to do so in spite of console kiddies desires to the contrary

Edited by Gremlich Johns, 01 January 2013 - 10:45 AM.

[blinkin]

Gremlich Johns, on 01 January 2013 - 10:43 AM, said:

And cars in North America are made by union members, driving up the cost of a vehicle significantly with built in obsolescence and drastic loss in value once purchased. I do see the corollary with the product thus far. I have yet to realize much value for my initial founder's investment in this product. Oh, I like the economy for matches won/loss, but the mechs and components are a tad unrealistically priced. I mean, an XL engine that costs as much as a medium mech? really! Now THAT is union-based pricing.



most have and will continue to do so in spite of console kiddies desires to the contrary

i am going to bypass all of your political BS.

as far as xl engines: the xl models universally weigh about half as much as their standard counterpart. not only are you buying an engine, you are also buying all of that tonnage. that can end up being well over 10 extra tons for many of the high end engines.

here is a realworld example: steel bicycles are heavier than thier aluminum or fiberglass counterparts, and as a result the lighter versions are many times more valuable in most cases.

Edited by blinkin, 01 January 2013 - 11:51 AM.

[Esperax]

Ill tell you what im not gona buy... im not gona buy 40 dollars worth of MCs, to get one single mech(atlas)!!! At the rate this is going, they'll find less and less supporters till it goes dead.

Im not gona spend $10 just to change my mechs color. Its so ridiculous, the amount they are charging for things like that.

[Werewolf486 ScorpS]

The Warhammer.

I'd pay some money to be able to buy the access to the Warhammer (If it's done right and doesn't look completely different from the origional), I want my Warhammer!

I'm sure lots of people would spend money to buy their favorite "Unseen" mech chassis. Personally I love the Warhammer and would be willing to spend a few dollars to get it. I refuse to spend another $60 on this game though so keep it reasonable or forget it!

[Xandralkus]

CUSTOM MATCHMAKING!!!

Pay 10,000 MC, and you get an option to select the number of players you want to have in a match, on each team. If you want to run 2 vs 2, or 12 vs 12, or ANY team size in between, custom matchmaking would let you do that.

Once paid for, the custom matchmaking option would always be available. If checked, the servers would always assemble a match with that specific number of players per team. A player might wish to uncheck it if running with a group larger or smaller than their desired size.

Players that have not paid for custom matchmaking would be placed into matches with variable numbers of players. Sometimes, it would be a 3 vs 3, or a 5 vs 5, or 10 vs 10, or really anywhere in between. It would all depend upon what the person in the match with custom matchmaking has paid to get.

If you always want 8 vs 8, you would have to pay the 10,000 MC to get that.

If you paid for 3 vs 3, and you decided you wanted to go to all 5 vs 5, that would not be a free operation. That would cost another 10,000 MC.

I would buy MC TOMORROW if this was implemented. My biggest gripe is that the number of players on the battlefield is too damn high, and I would pay my 10,000 MC to play 3 vs 3 PUG's until the end of time.

[Virgil1]

I would like to see a map builder/editor to allow submissions for new maps. New bigger maps. Some methodology for getting those maps into the game. Say allowing a House to map out the worlds that are playable in the game. Would allow a balancing if one House is completely outnumbered by another house.

Allow some automated defense.

Could put trial maps as a choice for drops. Would be a way to make money and increase the available maps.

Virgil von Hesse
House Liao

[ElLocoMarko]

The current offerings -mech bays, and premium time are exactly what I want. I am so far fundless mostly because I have to launder my money and cannot have video game purchases showing up on my credit card bills. With that kind of restriction I have to stick to game essentials - mech bays, possibly premium time, also possible a hero mech because I have a collection of dragons. But the mech bays are the thing. And the MC price is nice and low.

The free day of Premium time was a great idea - I am still waiting for a sick day at home to use it but I have a feeling that I am going to really enjoy the bonses and miss them when they go away.

If other gamers are basically cash-based, you can use gift visa's for online purchases *IF* you register the card online first. That adds a billing address to the card and makes it available for any online purchases.

[Kommisar]

Didn't read all 68 pages here, so if this has already been mentioned, then count this as a +1.

My group were talking and we all agreed we would pay for custom voices for our cockpit computer. Especially if you guys could snag some really cool ones. Ideas we had:

• The Swedish Chef
  
• Samuel L. Jackson (proof of age required - YOUR MECH IS HOT B!^%#$)
  
• GLADOS (Yea, this one would be tough to license we're sure)
  
• Archer (Mr. H. Jon Benjamin)
  
• Master Shake
  
• Karl (ATHF)
  
• Patrick Warburton (Yeaha, you're a... you're out of ammo on that one.)
  
• Tracy Morgan (Just saying crazy things)

Okay, we can't possibly get some of them. But I think the idea is cool.

[Stoned Koala]

Hi, new to the game, but not to Battletech. I'm going to keep this short and sweet.

-I would LOVE to spend more money on this game.
-I LOVE the mech XP system that lets you unlock improvements to your mech performance based on how much time you spend in it. Awesome role-playing element.
-I HATE how I'm forced to buy 3 of the SAME TYPE of mechs in order to unlock the Elite and Master levels of experience upgrades.

I get how in order to be a master of something you gotta spend time in it. But I don't want to be the "Master of the Centurion". I want to be the "Master Medium Mech" or "Master Light Mech" pilot. I don't want to own 3 different customized Centurions. I want to own a Hunchback, a Cicada, and a Centurion, and be a master medium mech pilot. And then maybe later I would like to buy a Commando, a Raven and a Jenner, and be a master light mech pilot too. I would PAY LOTS OF MONEY for this to happen.

Instead, I'm not, because I don't want to spend real money on 3 customized Centurions. I'd rather just play my one Centurion long enough to make enough C-bills to buy something else.

PLEASE change this. I promise you will make more money faster.

Thank you.

[Saar Star]

Definitely going to need to see more camouflage patterns and cosmetic effects before I start buying MC.

I mean just look at some of the cool ones on this site:
http://camospecs.com...tion.asp?ID=179

Decals are also a great idea, but will make more sense once factions have been implemented.
Unless were able to upload our own. The ability to change the huds colour scheme could be a worthy addition.

I'm fine with hero variants being only purchasable with real money as long as it stays that way.
Having to buy either an entire mech chassis or basic variants with MC would suck.
Although if the dev's slapped a $15 dollar price tag on a Tiber Wolf they would probably see a pretty high influx of cash flow.

I think a cool feature would be the ability to have an arena style game mode where people could place bets with MC, and then participate in tournaments sorta "winner takes all" style. That would really give some incentive for players to focus more on their tactics and skill level, as well get rewarded by racking in some MC.

[Araevin Teshurr]

We would like to pay with our credit card please. Stop all this MC currency fuss, it's really boring.
Just let us go to the store and use our credit card, period.

I'd pay for new hero mechs with cash - $5 a mech, you would have made 15 bucks from me already, but I am not buying MC as I can not buy it in the exact amount I want or need, I have to buy more than I need, and have some of it sit there - paying for something we don't want at that moment or will not use is a dis-incentive to the purchaser.

I'd pay for a camouflage scheme - $1 each, I have many mechs, that is many dollars per player. And please do not do this temporary crap, if I buy a paint scheme, it must be permanent. I can't describe how ludicrous it was for World of Tanks to sell a paint scheme for a week, then it went away? That's why I never bought one.

You should stop giving the game away for free, you should make us pay for a digital download, $10 or something. I know the cost of publishing a box and distributing it through retail stores is high, but people will pay for digital downloads like we do for movies and music.

Some people are plain old poor, and can't afford to buy games, that was cool back in the day, we would just copy them for free. Can't do that now though! 8-) What really bothers me about this particular game is that there is no way to work hard to earn better items through game play; ( ie no rewards ). People play games for rewards: Ex.

Star Trek Online input a new update last Season about a month ago, they removed loot drops from running Elite engagements, instead they gave you a reduced amount of dilithium ore, and that was it. People complained mightily, left the game in droves (free to play), not because they didn't like the game, the game didn't change, but because the player was not rewarded for doing something that could take 15 to 30 minutes. People play games to take actions that will bring them a reward, sounds childish, but it's the truth of the matter. When players were done with the elite match, and got nothing in return, they said forget this, this is boring, and walked away. STO devs responded, in 1 week, they went back to the old system of loot drops, and everyone was happy.

Don't be like that MWO, get with the salvage drop program, give us some random loot from our matchs, even if we don't use it, it doesn't matter, we get loot, use it or sell it, but it makes the player feel like the really got something for playing - c-bills aren't enough. How about this, the guy with the most kills or assists has a chance to get someones dropped dashboard ornament! Honestly, I'd rather just get the ECM module from a Raven so I can collect a chain of them and wear them around my Awesome's neck - #)(&! Ravens!!

I'd pay for a flag on my mech, hoist the Jolly Rogers and let it flap in the face of those House Pets!


Regards,

Edited by Relaed, 04 January 2013 - 04:35 AM.

[Pr8Dator]

Any hero mech with 3 seperate ballistic points and 3 seperate missile points!

[DaisuSaikoro Nagasawa]

I'd definitely pay for colours.

I'd also pay for team related stuff.

I like the idea of having something created, and then sent in to be validated, and then team members being able to buy it for a bit so that we can be in unison (like an emblem or even one of those in cab items)

Khan DaisuSaikoro Nagasawa

I'd definitely pay for colours.

I'd also pay for team related stuff.

I like the idea of having something created, and then sent in to be validated, and then team members being able to buy it for a bit so that we can be in unison (like an emblem or even one of those in cab items)

Khan DaisuSaikoro Nagasawa

[Sandslice]

Grind modules, with some of the following features:

-Media Cam: +15% cbill bonus. Stacks with other cbill bonuses, of course.
-Fast Learning DI: +15% experience bonus.
-Adaptive Learning DI: -20% experience. 20% of experience gained is added to each other currently existing variant of the same chassis.
(For example, if you would earn 400 exp. from a match, you would get 320 instead. Each variant would get 20% of 320, or 64.

[Riddler9884]

Have not read 68 pages worth of posts, so If I repeat some like someone said above consider it a +1, here is what I am willing to spend MC on/ Pay for

• Premium matches. Instead of purchasing an entire days worth of time and loosing some time to moments when i cant play (I.E. have to sleep or the Mech hasn't left the stupid match), just give the bonus per match.
  
• Expensive Mech Upgrades/Parts (I.E. new engines, FF armor, Double Heat sinks, Unlocked Modules). You would still have to grind the XP, but you should be able purchase all those highly expensive parts right off the bat instead of buying and selling a Mech for cbill's or playing a large number of matches before you can afford to buy all the equipment to get your Mech to its sweet spot and having fun.
  
• Bring back MC Deals and more MC price points, it's easier for me to justify spending $3 on MC than it is $7, $15 or $30. Walmart and the like have been exploiting for decades the fact people are more likely to buy something because they say a certain item is on sale.

[Lord Atvar]

Missions.

If they made history modes, short chapters where you gain experience and money, battles based on stories from books or new stories.
Who does not like to be part of the Battle of Tukayyind, or be part of the operation snake.
Depending on the membership of a house or a mercenary company, different types of missions.

Apart from decorative elements to the cabin, premium time and mc. I do not know what else can be done to get us money