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where is my sombrero? 

 

Would the players prefer the full removal over adding them to boxes or portals?

Well - you read the title. It's been a fantastic ride playing SuperMechs, but my time has come to leave the game. I have really enjoyed the nostalgia these past couple of years from this game, remembering the times when I played when I was younger. However, I've arrived at the point where the game is too boring and feels like work for me. Additionally, my real world responsibilities are increasing and it's time for me to do something else in my free time. 

I believe I've achieved everything that I originally had planned to, so I'm happy to announce that I can leave the game on a good note. I've really enjoyed the community here - there are some great people and I believe I can call them my friends. Not going to tag people - but you know who you are 🙂

In terms of the transition of my account, I will be giving my account to a couple of trusted people. I will not be revealing who they are, but they are respected people in the community with deep SM knowledge. 

Again, I really want to emphasize that the community has been great and has been a major reason why I haven't quit earlier. I appreciate getting to know folks and learn about their backgrounds. @Alexander & the Gato team - thank you for the privilege of keeping SuperMechs going and wishing the best for the future of the game. I also wish everyone else the best and good luck in SuperMechs and life 🙂

With many bittersweet feelings,

CleverName

Increased max level cap to 300, with added end-game rewards at every level past 250. Things like extra inventory slots, team slots, tokens, gold, and an item of choice as the level 300 reward.
Doesn't sound too difficult to implement from a developer standpoint, and offers all players a great incentive to grind and continue playing the game every day. 

Mech with 2 heat bombs will clear it with no problem.

Hello fellow mech pilots!
As you all know the grind can be a lot in the game and therefore I would like to a range of topics over the next few weeks to create suggestions to improve this. Please keep in mind these suggestions are only my own opinion and not that of Gato Games. Of course if you also have suggestions please feel free to make them below but please keep on topic! Each of these threads will be dedicated to a certain area to ensure the discussion is focussed on a key area. If your point is not to do with the key area then feel free to make your own thread!
 
Item Limit
The item limit was added as we moved to reloaded and hit a lot of players hard. It has never been liked and has even ruined some accounts due to having tens of thousands of items. 
Now that we have gotten used to the item limit it does have some large negatives:
In a game that certain items are hard to find it forces you to chuck away the ones you do have.  To boost up items you have to do multiple iterations of buying - boosting - even when you have the money to do so. You can only buy 5 slots at a time and the cost increases every time.  Forces pilots to hoard boxes unable to open them due to a full inventory and may not have the time/money to boost.  But it also has some positives:
Loading your inventory takes less time. New players are forced to learn about boosting.  
Overall I feel the item limit is just too restrictive when it doesn't need to be. I also expect the server work from a few extra item slots would not be a massive impact to the game. Therefore I would like to recommend the following changes to reduce this impact:
Change inventory increase size from 5 to 25 in terms of slot size. Change inventory cost from to be half the current cost per 5 slots.  Add an inventory limit of X spaces (suggested 1000). Anyone that reaches above this due to the above changes would get premium boxes equating to the amount of reds you would be owed.  Give players an extra 50 slots per 50 levels. (50, 100, 150, 200, 250) 

I only got 1 good drop from the offer packs but hey, quality > quantity

Um, you do realize "premium" means L-M, right?

In this topic, I’ll post what I believed to be some of the best of the best OLDER meta/top-tier builds. The point of this topic is to have a place to put all former meta builds, as many of them will be helpful for the vast majority of players (to use as a reference point and something they can build into over time).
META = Most Effective Tactics Available (ie. what's the best build in game to help you climb the ladder in arena). Note this isn’t a build help thread. If you need build help, please go there. 
If you want to view the current meta builds, please visit it here: Current Meta Builds.
I will maintain this thread for as long as I have the motivation 🙂 
Last Updated: 4/15/2021
PHYSICAL
Best Physical (1/24/2021)

3.1k hp EFA

Rock Polisher + War Hammer

Rock Polisher + Rock Recoiler

 
HEAT
Best Heat (2/1/2021)

Best Heat (1/24/2021)

Heat Hugger (variant 2)

Heat Hugger (variant 3)

Windigo Hugger

EFA Heat

Dual Magma

Dual Magma (variant 2)

ENERGY
Best Energy (4/15/2021)

Best Energy (1/24/2021)
Dual BrightRoar
Brightroar + Lightning Cutter
Dual Bunker

BrightRoar UPC

Hey everyone I just noticed that a while back I had saved the META pictures when it was monkey torsos.  Like December of 2020, roughly.  Here you go.  You're welcome.

(credit to Raul for the bottom panel and Pavka for the title)

Casual reminder for @Alexander to finally explain how the Prenium Packs drop rate works and why it's such a taboo to show out the drop rates from boxes like golden boxes from Legacy , it's already March 2021 .

 

Let's make it happen 

One of, if not the best topic I've read on this forum.

Yes, yes please.

2v2 is unbearable and filled with counters. Its the most cancerous season, but why is that? because we are able to pick the mechs that we want after seeing our opponent's mechs. in 1v1 and 3v3 we cant change the layout to counter the other person but in 2v2 we can. I recommend that we remove the option to pick and choose the mech we want to send in battle. So the first two mechs you have, are the ones that are going to the battle. So it will be much harder for people to counter there opponents. 

This thread is a copy paste of a reply I made back on the old forum, on a thread about helping SuperMechs improve. You can find the original post here, at least until the old forum dies. I've gone back through the post and believe all the ideas have stood the test of time, so I'm reposting it here. Thanks in advance for reading.
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In my opinion, one of the best ways to improve the player experience while increasing retention and revenue is to greatly increase the reward for top clans and players. Below I’ll elaborate a list of changes that will provide incentive for everyone to keep playing and paying. First off and most importantly, provide the top 6 clans with rewards instead of the top 3. It’s always baffled me that the top 6 clans get recognized in game but only the top 3 get rewarded. Increased reward range to top 6 offer huge incentive for a wide variety of clans (which encapsulate a larger margin of the p2w playerbase) to play and spend more to get better at the game.

Top 3 clan rewards changed to the following:
1st - 3 Epic Power kits and 5 Premium boxes ( + Gold Clan Medal) 2nd - 3 Epic Power kits and 4 Premium boxes ( + Silver Clan Medal) 3rd - 3 Epic Power kits and 3 Premium boxes ( + Bronze Clan Medal) 4th, 5th, and 6th placed clan rewards get added as follows:
4th - 2 Epic Power kits and 2 Premium boxes 5th - 2 Epic Power kits and 1 Premium box 6th - 1 Epic Power kit and 1 Premium box This offers at least some incentive for lower ranked clans to grind their way up and have a chance at some rewards, as opposed to getting top 6 for nothing. I’d also like to see increased rewards for the top 3 players, as the gold rewards seem a little low given how much gold it actually takes to upgrade items. Top 10 players rewards are also added as follows.

Top 3 player rewards changed to the following:
1st - 5,000,000 Gold ( + Gold Solo Medal) 2nd - 2,500,000 Gold ( + Silver Solo Medal) 3rd - 1,500,000 Gold ( + Bronze Solo Medal) 4th through 10th player rewards get added as follows:
4th and 5th - 1,000,000 Gold 6th through 10th - 500,000 Gold It’s really that simple. I’ve come across a lot of players who are in this position of ‘good, but not great’ and have diminishing incentive to play the game. It’s somewhat depressing watching their efforts go to waste without any reward, and no chance to break into the top 3 clans/players. You don’t even have to increase the drop rates for these rewards to provide a huge incentive, although I’m sure we’d all appreciate it if a ‘% chance of a L-M item not currently in inventory’ feature was added. Just my 2 cents.

Pog

I've been looking for it for months!

Killin was arrested for hacking and is currently serving time in jail, as such his videos were removed as a sign of good faith hoping for bail. 
He should be free in about 17 years.

Looks like WLGang is finally getting another Dutch member 😄

Looks like WLGang is finally getting another Dutch member 😄

Oi m8,
 
Last few weeks I was able to gain rank 5 or higher in all seasons, so that requirement I'd fulfill for WLGang3.0
However, I was wondering if there's a minimum rank requirement for that clan.
 
Cheers, Zylok.

In this thread, I’ll post what I believe to be the best builds in the game (meta builds). Everyone is welcome to post and debate meta builds.
META = Most Effective Tactics Available (i.e. what's the best build in game to help you climb the ladder in arena and have the highest win rate). I've excluded "popular" builds that aren't really "meta." I'm defining meta as the best builds in their respective element and must at a minimum be able to achieve Rank 1 full stars (and preferably have the highest win rate possible).  The "best" builds are of my own opinion from arena testing.
Note this isn’t a build help thread. If you need build help, please go there. If you want to view older meta/top-tier builds, please go here.
I will maintain this thread for as long as I have the motivation 🙂 
Last updated: 5/13/2021
Best Build in Game:
“Best Heat”
 
PHYSICAL
Best Physical

 
HEAT
Best Heat

Boiler

 
Dual Magma

 
ENERGY
Best Energy

Dual Brightroar
Dual Bunker

I'm just going about my day, decided I'd hop in chat to do a friendly 3v3 with a friend. I send an invite and oop, Invitation Declined. He's online and is also trying to send me a 3v3 invite, but it almost never works. I see no reasoning to this, just chance. This has been an issue for a while and some have accepted it while others have not. 
Yes, we both have invites enabled.