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[Rah Mal]

I would like more details about the premium account and more information about the ratio for real money to c-bills.

Thanks in advance.

[Mota Prefect]

They have not released any concrete details as of yet. so far looks like you can expect premium account to be a monthly XP and C-bill multiplier.

[MEGAWEAPON]

if it's like wot, you make a lot more money and exp thaf a standard free account, in wot it's too expensive to play at higher levels with just a free account

[Redshift2k5]

There isn't really a ratio for real money to C-bills. The Mechlab dev video shows mechs with prices in both Cbills and MC(the cash-purchased currency) but the MC values do not necessarily relate directly to a Cbill value. The MC cost are listed in a flat rate per size class and it lists the Dragan and the Catapult both at 700 MC- but they both have a different Cbill cost. so, there is no flat rate between C-bills and MC.

Weapons were not given a cost in MC, only Cbills, so it may not be possible to buy weapons, equipment, or modules except with C-bills.

The temporary premium account listed in Operation:Inception says "Earn XP & C-Bills faster." 30 days for the veteran package, 60 days for the elite package.
The permanent founder's battlemech has a lifetime C-bill booster per match for that mech.

[McSniffles]

Yeah after tier 7/8 in WoT, if you dont have premium account, expect to lose money every time you lose a match or dont contribute too much during a win.

[Jacob Roamer]

McSniffles, on 22 May 2012 - 02:09 PM, said:

Yeah after tier 7/8 in WoT, if you dont have premium account, expect to lose money every time you lose a match or dont contribute too much during a win.

Unless you have a premium Tank in which case you can make money even not running premimum. My Lowe still makes credits even without premium.

Count me in for the $60.00 package and the premimum mech. Already asked for my fathers day present to be the elite package.

[Ends]

My left over college loans... Beer or Mechwarrior? Hmmmm...

[Aelos03]

MEGAWEAPON, on 22 May 2012 - 02:07 PM, said:

if it's like wot, you make a lot more money and exp thaf a standard free account, in wot it's too expensive to play at higher levels with just a free account

Ends, on 22 May 2012 - 02:17 PM, said:

My left over college loans... Beer or Mechwarrior? Hmmmm...

beer of course at least in my case

Edited by Aelos03, 22 May 2012 - 02:23 PM.

[borisof007]

I'm not sure I like this idea of a premium account too much, but hopefully I'm wrong.

I prefer it to just be a booster that you can purchase at any time, hopefully not a monthly thing. Additionally, I'm not too wild about having to spend c-bills on repairs. I think that once you've bought a mech, it should be yours and that's it. Having a griefer come in and ruin a match of 4v4, 8v8 or 12v12 could be disastrous.

Unless repairs are a very minor amount, I'm worried about how this will play out.

I play league of legends a lot, and although the capability for griefing is high in LoL, there's no real penalty other than you've wasted 20 minutes. I sincerely hope for the best for this game, it has my upmost attention and I'm dying to try it. Crossing my fingers that they get the economy part right.

[TheRulesLawyer]

McSniffles, on 22 May 2012 - 02:09 PM, said:

Yeah after tier 7/8 in WoT, if you dont have premium account, expect to lose money every time you lose a match or dont contribute too much during a win.

I really hope they don't pull that. Having to play mech you don't like just to play the mechs you do like would suck. From what they've said in the past, it seems unlikely that is a direction they'd choose, but who knows.

[Redshift2k5]

borisof007, on 22 May 2012 - 02:22 PM, said:

I'm not sure I like this idea of a premium account too much, but hopefully I'm wrong.

I prefer it to just be a booster that you can purchase at any time, hopefully not a monthly thing. Additionally, I'm not too wild about having to spend c-bills on repairs. I think that once you've bought a mech, it should be yours and that's it. Having a griefer come in and ruin a match of 4v4, 8v8 or 12v12 could be disastrous.

Unless repairs are a very minor amount, I'm worried about how this will play out.

I play league of legends a lot, and although the capability for griefing is high in LoL, there's no real penalty other than you've wasted 20 minutes. I sincerely hope for the best for this game, it has my upmost attention and I'm dying to try it. Crossing my fingers that they get the economy part right.

I don't think repair bills will be any large fraction of your winnings, and I highly doubt they will have repairs so expensive that you run a deficit- f you run a deficit then in certain situations you'd eventually go past the point of no return- No functional battlemech and no C-bills to fix it with. Breaking even should be the worst case scenario.

[Aggammenonn]

lol, its not that bad. I'm sure that even assualt addicts can find at least 1 Med that they like to play. As fro the premium accounts, which would you rather have, people paying to get extra cbills and xp, or people paying to get gamebreaking advantages? I've commented afew times taht WoT is a good basis. Even if you pump a ton of RL cash into that game, the max tank you can buy is teir 8. to get any of the top end stuff, you gotta earn it.
Also, and this may just be my old EVE instincts kicking in, but dont drive what you cant replace!!
I doubt that you could ever go neg cbills, worst is taht you wont be able to repair that mech. SO, its your only mech, your out of cbills.. I bet there is a mech that you can get free.. wont be a good mech, but wont cost much and will allow you to grind your balance back up. I PREFER a game taht doesnt just give you stuff, I wanna earn it.

[MaddMaxx]

Quote

"The temporary premium account listed in Operation:Inception says "Earn XP & C-Bills faster." 30 days for the veteran package, 60 days for the elite package.
The permanent founder's battlemech has a lifetime C-bill booster per match for that Mech."

So for $30.00 dollars, you get a 30 day Player-Mech XP/C-Bill bonus (#'s unknown)

For $60.00 dollars, you get a 60 day Player-Mech XP/C-Bill bonus (#'s unknown)

And being a Founder, either package, your Mech selection retains it XP Bonus for the duration of your account. Note that Mech XP and Player XP are different and allow the purchase of different things. The buff could be .085%. Sounds small but over a Mechs lifetime (when being played) who knows.

[Fabe]

Redshift2k5, on 22 May 2012 - 02:29 PM, said:

I don't think repair bills will be any large fraction of your winnings, and I highly doubt they will have repairs so expensive that you run a deficit- f you run a deficit then in certain situations you'd eventually go past the point of no return- No functional battlemech and no C-bills to fix it with. Breaking even should be the worst case scenario.

The Developers have already stated a few time that Our mech will always be partly repaired to a 'just bearly function' level so I don't think we'll have to worry too much about going broke due to battle damage.

[Morashtak]

Also, as things are being tested and reviewed not just in Beta but after launch we can expect tweaks now and then. If a XP and C-Bill multiplier is not doing it's job at a certain percentage we will see it changed. If a HP layout on a Mech is being abused and that variant is fast becoming the FotM we can expect to see it tweaked as well.

Expect a lot of changes even after launch. Not huge, game changing changes I hope. Just a tweak here and there every so often.

[borisof007]

Redshift2k5, on 22 May 2012 - 02:29 PM, said:

I don't think repair bills will be any large fraction of your winnings, and I highly doubt they will have repairs so expensive that you run a deficit- f you run a deficit then in certain situations you'd eventually go past the point of no return- No functional battlemech and no C-bills to fix it with. Breaking even should be the worst case scenario.

I can only hope as such. I liken it to MechCommander. In that game, repairs and even parts replacement was never a huge deal. As long as it doesn't ever exceed.... let's say 10-15% of the winnings, I think I might be OK with it. Also, if a mech's destroyed, hopefully you won't have to completely re-buy it. Just repair it.

[Ogre Magi]

this is a good thing because it helps quantify the costs of playing the game, me i can see paying for a small advantage but nothing so much as to make it a game breaker. all in all its a good safe way to drum up cash to get it started.

[Karyudo ds]

borisof007, on 22 May 2012 - 02:22 PM, said:

Additionally, I'm not too wild about having to spend c-bills on repairs. I think that once you've bought a mech, it should be yours and that's it.

Welcome to Mechwarrior! Of course this hasn't been implemented into MW's online games before really...but for those games online was an after thought that is this entire games focus.

So you can continue to worry about griefers if you like as you apparently have all the information. I don't really see the point of worrying when for all I know team caused damage will be free to repair.

borisof007, on 22 May 2012 - 02:46 PM, said:

I can only hope as such. I liken it to MechCommander. In that game, repairs and even parts replacement was never a huge deal. As long as it doesn't ever exceed.... let's say 10-15% of the winnings, I think I might be OK with it. Also, if a mech's destroyed, hopefully you won't have to completely re-buy it. Just repair it.

It likely wont be here either, you need to be able to play the game to enjoy it. They've also specifically told us what would happen when a mech was destroyed, no re-buying.

Edited by Karyudo-ds, 22 May 2012 - 02:51 PM.

[Rah Mal]

Thank you all for your quick replies. I hope the rest of the MW gaming community is this nice and helpful.

[Aelos03]

Rah Mal, on 22 May 2012 - 03:08 PM, said:

Thank you all for your quick replies. I hope the rest of the MW gaming community is this nice and helpful.

it is everyone is nice on this forum its like utopia