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[MadJeff]

Any feedback on Cicada CDA-3M repair costs? I've had an XL engine before and could never make money ... worried that this variant could cost way too much given it's firepower. The CDA-2B seems almost identical to the CDA-2A, which I already own. So to elite this mech I need to pick one ...

MadJeff

[De La Fresniere]

Apparently repair costs are bugged right now (which explains how absurdly high they are). I don't even remember which Cicada model I used, but it cost me 110,000 to repair it.

Hopefully it'll be fixed when the game goes into Open Beta tomorrow, or this could cause some seriously bad publicity and jeopardize the game's success.

[Countess]

De La Fresniere, on 28 October 2012 - 11:27 AM, said:

Apparently repair costs are bugged right now (which explains how absurdly high they are). I don't even remember which Cicada model I used, but it cost me 110,000 to repair it.

Hopefully it'll be fixed when the game goes into Open Beta tomorrow, or this could cause some seriously bad publicity and jeopardize the game's success.

The overprice of the CDA-3M is not a bug. You pay for the mech and the items inside it. It has an XL Engine 320, which is worth 5,226,667. So the repair cost is higher because the items it has are expensive to have.

Hope I helped!

Edited by Countess, 28 October 2012 - 11:32 AM.

[arby358]

I'm running a cicada right now with an xl 340, but I haven't had repair costs much more than 30000. It's not that I'm surviving either, I typically get killed mid way through the match. Not sure why my costs are so much lower than everyone else's.

[Redshift2k5]

The repair cost 'bug' is mainly related to 'very high armor repair cost'. Cicadas don't have a lot of armor, so it's less noticeable.

XL cost much less to repair now than they did a month ago when the XL engine repair cost was bugged.

[De La Fresniere]

Countess, on 28 October 2012 - 11:32 AM, said:

The overprice of the CDA-3M is not a bug. You pay for the mech and the items inside it. It has an XL Engine 320, which is worth 5,226,667. So the repair cost is higher because the items it has are expensive to have.

Hope I helped!

The one I bought actually didn't come with an XL Engine but I did buy one for it later (340). I guess that would explain the high repair cost, just like you said.

Still, IMO a 110,000 repair bill is highly unreasonable. XL Engines are a sidegrade in the first place (they're lighter but they take more space and make you much easier to kill), I'm OK with them costing more to buy but if it's gonna cost me an extra 40,000 C-bills per death I'm gonna say right away that no one in their right mind would use them.

At least not the higher-powered ones. I have an XL Engine in my favorite mech, a Commando, and I pay roughly 44,000 per death, total. It eats into my profits but I don't *lose* money for participating in a match...

[Raptor6]

De La Fresniere, on 28 October 2012 - 11:57 AM, said:

Still, IMO a 110,000 repair bill is highly unreasonable.

Your kidding, right?

[De La Fresniere]

Raptor6, on 28 October 2012 - 04:35 PM, said:

Your kidding, right?

If you're asking if I'm exaggerating the figure, I'm not. If I get killed my repair bill really is 110,000 (I used a 340 XL in my Cicada though, maybe an XL 320 costs a bit less to repair).

If you're asking if I really think it's unreasonable, yes, yes I do. Unless you have Premium membership, a loss (usually, that means you've been killed) will not yield anywhere near 110,000. Going into each game knowing you might lose tens of thousands of C-bills is not fun.

In any case, almost everyone is hugely unhappy about the current state of things so I'm pretty sure costs will be lowered...

[Raptor6]

De La Fresniere, on 28 October 2012 - 05:13 PM, said:

If you're asking if I'm exaggerating the figure, I'm not. If I get killed my repair bill really is 110,000 (I used a 340 XL in my Cicada though, maybe an XL 320 costs a bit less to repair).

If you're asking if I really think it's unreasonable, yes, yes I do. Unless you have Premium membership, a loss (usually, that means you've been killed) will not yield anywhere near 110,000. Going into each game knowing you might lose tens of thousands of C-bills is not fun.

In any case, almost everyone is hugely unhappy about the current state of things so I'm pretty sure costs will be lowered...

Sorry that was a bad quote on my part. Yes I was asking about the amount of your repair bills. I have a CDA-3M and my highest repair bill to date is 89k, (which I think is pretty high). I still have the 320 in it so that could be it. 110k repair would make me think twice about bringing the thing out. I agree the repair costs need to be balanced a better.