8 replies to this topic

[chaz706]

My suggestion for the month of December: making a system that allows players to give mechs to other players. I'm in the 'Yes but with restrictions' camp. My restrictions being:

1) No Premium or Founders mechs can be given.
2) Mechs given must be purchased with C-Bills.

A penny for your thoughts? It's also OK to think of different restrictions.

Edited by chaz706, 03 November 2012 - 04:28 PM.

[Dukarriope]

It'd be good if the devs were planning to add this (I'm not sure they are, but I seem to recall something somewhere about being able to give others items or mechs down the line), given that its a great way to help introduce new players to the game by giving them a mech to start out with. Limiting the gifting by not allowing Premium and Founder mechs is ideal, but I do not think it's necessary to disable gifting MC mechs.

[Kushko]

I vote no.

Because not only is the dev time MUCH needed elsewhere, but also if they implement gifting other players/transferring ingame money, we will get a problem with hackers getting in to your account and sealing (as it stands now the only thing a hacker can do is screw around with your stuff and not benefit anything from it, which is why we dont really have account hack attempts).

[Volthorne]

Dukarriope, on 03 November 2012 - 06:11 PM, said:

It'd be good if the devs were planning to add this (I'm not sure they are, but I seem to recall something somewhere about being able to give others items or mechs down the line), given that its a great way to help introduce new players to the game by giving them a mech to start out with. Limiting the gifting by not allowing Premium and Founder mechs is ideal, but I do not think it's necessary to disable gifting MC mechs.

PGI has explicitly said they will NOT be allowing trading between players at any point, because that opens up the door to gold-farmers.

[Alois Hammer]

No to "WeRipUOff-dot-com, Awesome AWS-9M just $3.50, delivery in 15 minutes" spammed through every available chat and forum channel.

And that's exactly what this idea would bring, no ifs ands or buts.

[NintenJoe]

Now im sure heads of merc companies would love to help out their battle buddies i agree this would be exploited to no end. Better to assume (role play it like) the trials are the gifts and the reason you dont get xp or full money is cause your 'paying' for rent.

[Tempworker]

I'm in the hell no category.. it will just encourage pro-farming and companies will sell mechs with prices undercutting the MC market.. thus driving Piranha out of business


once again:
hell no

[chaz706]

Volthorne, on 03 November 2012 - 10:09 PM, said:

PGI has explicitly said they will NOT be allowing trading between players at any point, because that opens up the door to gold-farmers.

Once again I see the folly in not thinking too far ahead. If I could change my vote I'd vote no now.

[Avin]

Once they have more of the faction stuff in place it would be good to be able to help out guys in your Merc Corp with mechs and gear. If there was a "company store" section for mechs (like we currently have "trial mechs" and "your mechs") and you could only donate mechs to your company (so its a one way transaction) I think that would work pretty well. Limiting those mechs to say only giving XP and not C-Bills would be a good complement to the current system too and give more scope for training people in new mechs/roles for the company in preparation for them buying their own mech of that type.