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[Mathmatics]

I know I would be far far more likely to spend money on these color schemes if I could save them. That way I could buy more and switch them out when needed / wanted. The way it is now, without that option I will personally never spend cbills or mc on it. I really think the whole system is screwed but Ill work with it if they at least let us save our ALREADY bought colors schemes that we already freaking paid for. I get you guys need to make money but we are not going to spend money without value attached. Should have gone with my pain pot selling idea you guys woulda made a freaking killing

Edited by Mathmatics, 27 November 2012 - 02:53 PM.

[AlexEss]

No... This is a good source of revenue and seeing as there are not many other things to continually spend money on i do not really see another way to do it.

Better this then they being forced to dip towards the P2W cesspool.

I would be nice to have more colors and i can see them expanding both the premium and basic paint with more choices.

[Mathmatics]

AlexEss, on 27 November 2012 - 02:51 PM, said:

No... This is a good source of revenue and seeing as there are not many other things to continually spend money on i do not really see another way to do it.

Better this then they being forced to dip towards the P2W cesspool.

I would be nice to have more colors and i can see them expanding both the premium and basic paint with more choices.

I hear ya on that one. Ya know im the kind of guy that wiithin the second week of open had all 24 mech bays full and was pissed there were only 24. So for me my systems probably make more sense than for guys that just play a couple mechs if that. I still think they would have made more money off selling jars of paint with limited uses. That also would have been cooler, more wargamerish.


EDIT: I did not mean to say you buy red once and you can use red forever on every mech, What Im saying is you make a color scheme on a mech, save it and then can forever pull up that scheme again on said mech, To kid out my mechlab it would probably cost me $100 then what happens if I change alliance or my commander decides we have a new official color for a new op. Im ****** that what lol

Edited by Mathmatics, 27 November 2012 - 03:00 PM.

[Joe3142]

Yeah, I agree that once you have brought a certian colour/ pattern on a mech, you should be able to keep it for that variant

[Kaijin]

Why did you tick 'multiple choices allowed' for this poll? You're getting people voting for all 3.

[AgroAlba]

Kaijin, on 27 November 2012 - 04:46 PM, said:

Why did you tick 'multiple choices allowed' for this poll? You're getting people voting for all 3.

Some of us are indecisive. :C

[Dracol]

I see your point and it would be nice. But I had to vote No cause I used to work at a custom motorcycle shop and how it is now just makes sense. Once a ride was painted, that's it. Can't get the tins back to the way they were unless you paid for it.

[Taizan]

Nope, its ok and its not too expensive, plus you can also pay a basic color scheme and patterns with c-bills, no one is forced to paint with MC color/scheme.

[QuantumButler]

AlexEss, on 27 November 2012 - 02:51 PM, said:

No... This is a good source of revenue and seeing as there are not many other things to continually spend money on i do not really see another way to do it.

Better this then they being forced to dip towards the P2W cesspool.

I would be nice to have more colors and i can see them expanding both the premium and basic paint with more choices.

Most f2p titles "unlock" things you've paid real money for permanently unless they are explicitly consumable, they don't try the cheap cashgrab of repeatedly billing you for cosmetic changes to your character.

[ManDaisy]

I dont think I will buy any camo changes unless I can always switch back to them permanently.

[Yigyam]

Any one know if you can switch between pattern types? Say I buy phranken, and then switch back to the default scheme. Would I get to change back to phranken with no charge?

Colors are cheap, but the schemes are spendy. I know I'd buy more colors if I only had to buy the scheme once.

Edited by Stavros Mueller, 27 November 2012 - 07:41 PM.

[Team Leader]

Why do they need our paint back? We already bought it once

[SpiralRazor]

You simply cannot charge people more then once for a "skin"

This is a BS money grab.


once again, http://na.leagueoflegends.com/

[Tarman]

Looking at it, it's really coffee money. But it still does feel kind of rip-off-like. Planetside2 sells cheap temp camos and more expensive perma camos, and lots of them. In-universe, sure it makes sense to pay for resprays; metagame, not so sure. We'll have to see how it develops. The Phranken skin is cooool though. >___>

Personally I'd spend lots more on higher-priced painting options if I had freer access, rather than just a coupon for a sprayshop, so to speak. IDW merely take the mech to the sprayshop, let me BUY the kit to put together my own shop, so if I want decal access, bam, get that; a few starters and the option to purchase more. More channels? Okay, open them up; you could do channel opening per-mech if you wanted. Colours? I will give you the MC, for singles and custom-matched sets. Special camo patterns, I would buy these. This is the kind of detailing I would pay a lot more for, a large collectible toolkit that could increase your mech customizing as much as you're willing to pay into it. Collecting a sprayshop would be a side game in of itself for many.

And for those that will only buy one paintjob forever anyway and also for the collectors, sell cheaper unmodifiable predone sets; all the houses, a fair number of famous merc unit colours, and a nice selection of decent basic paint schemes. Then you still get your nickels and dimes, but more people get more fun out of them. Sell an unlock on them if you have a bunch of spray kit and want to mod a predone look.

This is not about spending money on pointless crap, it's about the pointless crap at least being as fun as possible. The current method is not maximized fun.