James The Fox Dixon, on 13 November 2012 - 03:08 PM, said:
While free players make less for winning and losing a match in an owned mech due to repairs and rearms. The most profitable thing to do in an owned mech, as a free player, is to cap the base, so you don't have to pay for expensive repairs and rearms.
Expensive repairs and rearms? Take a Trial mech then LOL. And don't tell me how much Trial mech sucks because it's completely irrelevant when 9/10 of players in this community are lame enough to run for a base before engaging in any kind of COMBAT whatsoever.
wanderer, on 13 November 2012 - 03:17 PM, said:
Did you know that if you do it right, capping lures all that delicious salvage straight to you?
Seriously, the best herding of PUGs (ours and theirs) I've seen was sending one scout to lead them back towards their own cap while the rest of us took the short route to it, then blowing each other to bits (ideally, with our side winning) and letting the last opponent run if they liked.
But the real reason people cap early and quick is very simple. They need money, and a cap win is the fastest route to it per round. I actually enjoy those kinds of wins, because to me it's the equivalent of giving the other team a tactical wedgie. Speed caps only happen when the other team is blind and stumbling around like a three-legged mule that's been stuck in a snowdrift since last January.
Capping doesn't lure salvage if you don't destroy any mechs. Pretty much defeats the whole purpose of playing Mechwarrior. I'm sure there are some nice CTF type games you can play since Mechwarrior may not be your cup of tea.
Rathe, on 13 November 2012 - 03:17 PM, said:
capping is fast $$. if you don't like it, play defensibly. daddy gotta earn those creddits, pay those bills
I guarantee I make more money destroying mechs than you do capping. If you guys find any pride in cheap wins in something as trivial as a video game, you guys have serious life issues. Just saying. I can't wait till we can start having 8 man premades again so I can start playing Mechwarrior and not Capwarrior with you babies looking for "easy" virtual money..
Edited by DaPwnageMachine, 13 November 2012 - 03:25 PM.