For those who treat this game like Pokemon...

By "pokemon" in the title, I mean you're playing with the "gotta catch em all" approach. Especially if you've played for a while and/or bought a pack or three, you may be sitting on enough Mechs to cover a Company logistically through several losses.

How do you handle the more expensive parts of your Mech? I'm looking through my mechbays, where I used to try and keep a handful of engines and modules so I could keep 4 Mechs running at any given time (I would keep the mechs combat ready except for engine/module), and I'm looking at all the new modules and thinking I just want to get my Mechs all set up and ready to go without swapping gear.

However, I estimate this will run me 20 to 30 million per mech, or over a billion just with my current inventory.

How do you guys with 20+ mechs yandle these expensive items? Do you swap out? Do you only have modules on your favorites or on meta top tier? Or have simply played long and often enough that everything is self sufficient?

 

How many can you have ready at any one time?

And what all do you swap out? Mech modules? Weapon modules? Engines? Other equipment?

 

I just switch modules.

On the other side, I don't collect all chassis, only buy the ones I think I need, and only keep the variants I like.

 

I wish the game treated your inventory as if it was not currently in use, i.e. if you have 1 module its available for all builds because you can't have 2 mechs up simultaneously anyway...

 

I'm not there yet, but i'm grinding away slowly. Id rather play without modules than swap them in/out.
I have some mechs which will always have specific modules, like target decay on the CAT-A1.

 

I wish we were able to save configurations.
In my opinion a big improvement to the present UI would be the ability to set up & save configurations for each mech. Ammo, engines, weapons, modules, etc. would be in a depot that would be accessable each time you pull up a chassis. The UI would show which configs are invalid & what needs to be purchased to complete, along with a summary of c-bills if needed. Available equipment would be limited only by mechs that were left in game, for whatever reason.
If we had this, each time we were finished playing a configuration, the chassis could be stripped, and the available assets returned to the depot available for the next chassis.... Further limitations could be put on this for the upcoming CW

 

Swap. The main concern is engines or expensive weapons (like if just love them gauss/ac20s). While you build up to having the dhs and when appropriate endo/ferro on the variants you want droppable or are framing with, swapping let's you keep the most mechs in a near-droppable state at once. I would focus on weapon and equipment load outs first, then duplicate engines, THEN modules.

I'm currently still doing this but have multiple always drop ready mechs now if I'm willing to go module free. One of what you need, more is convenience and damnably expensive.

 

What I'm thinking is get 6-8 concurrently running (so 3-4 levelling for 1 chassis masterred + a new variant of an old chassis and one of each weight that are already masterred for group drops). Or I might do 3 to 4 and swap out between stuff.

Essentially then any time I want a new combination, I could swap out.

I do wish I could just get them all in ready to go status, but I realize that's not a possibility.

I also agree:
Keeping them all with everything but engines and modules.
Then get them their own engines.
Then get them their own weapon modules.
Then get them their own Mech modules.

 

I keep one of each weight class ready to go at all times so I can plug and play for whatever the unit or my mood needs. I have variations on those 4 that usually just takes a module swap. I've doubled up on some of the more useful modules like seismic and radar derp etc. so when I'm out pugging I can play some of my underused chassis.

 

All ready and fit... (modules excluded)



5 more to arrive tomorrow.

 

H4X.

 

I thought grinding and levelling WAS the game...

 

Well in fairness to an extent that is the game as its progression.

Give me MORE mechs!

 

Yes, but that weird part gives me money so I can treat my mechlab like its a barbie playhouse. Or an AR-15 workbench. Whichever sounds manlier.