Andernut

Hey guys, 
For the second time in my Supermechs Life I've changed clans.  When Kongregate servers merged with the Supermechs server (long before reloaded) my clan in Kong mostly folded, I think most of them actually went to HTK.  At the time, I have no idea why, some players in HTK didn't accept me because they thought I was a spy or alt of someone else - so when Dany/Littlelost of LLYL invited me to join I accepted.  I almost didn't join at the time - I thought they would all be cocky jerks because they were long-reigning Gold Medal clan, and it turns out they weren't and we had many good times and many medals and build discussions.  
Most of the faces I knew in those days with LLYL are gone now, but for many years I played alongside Wep, Gros and Nagi and some other longtime players in LLYL, even leading for a time.  It'll hold a special place for me certainly - and be weird to face that clan flag.  But I've made many friends over the years, and now more of those friends are in other clans than in my current one.  I have much admiration for the leaders and players in all of the clans, my connection to the game is more generally with all the players than it is to any specific clan.
It took more than 10 minutes of trying to figure out how to actually leave a clan, since I've only done so once, years ago.  I have accepted an invitation from some friends in Reign to join.  So for now, that's where I'll be playing from.
Much love to LLYL and the players and friends there, I just needed a bit of a change. 
Still playing though.
Cheers!
Andernut.

Hey guys, 
For the second time in my Supermechs Life I've changed clans.  When Kongregate servers merged with the Supermechs server (long before reloaded) my clan in Kong mostly folded, I think most of them actually went to HTK.  At the time, I have no idea why, some players in HTK didn't accept me because they thought I was a spy or alt of someone else - so when Dany/Littlelost of LLYL invited me to join I accepted.  I almost didn't join at the time - I thought they would all be cocky jerks because they were long-reigning Gold Medal clan, and it turns out they weren't and we had many good times and many medals and build discussions.  
Most of the faces I knew in those days with LLYL are gone now, but for many years I played alongside Wep, Gros and Nagi and some other longtime players in LLYL, even leading for a time.  It'll hold a special place for me certainly - and be weird to face that clan flag.  But I've made many friends over the years, and now more of those friends are in other clans than in my current one.  I have much admiration for the leaders and players in all of the clans, my connection to the game is more generally with all the players than it is to any specific clan.
It took more than 10 minutes of trying to figure out how to actually leave a clan, since I've only done so once, years ago.  I have accepted an invitation from some friends in Reign to join.  So for now, that's where I'll be playing from.
Much love to LLYL and the players and friends there, I just needed a bit of a change. 
Still playing though.
Cheers!
Andernut.

Hey guys, 
For the second time in my Supermechs Life I've changed clans.  When Kongregate servers merged with the Supermechs server (long before reloaded) my clan in Kong mostly folded, I think most of them actually went to HTK.  At the time, I have no idea why, some players in HTK didn't accept me because they thought I was a spy or alt of someone else - so when Dany/Littlelost of LLYL invited me to join I accepted.  I almost didn't join at the time - I thought they would all be cocky jerks because they were long-reigning Gold Medal clan, and it turns out they weren't and we had many good times and many medals and build discussions.  
Most of the faces I knew in those days with LLYL are gone now, but for many years I played alongside Wep, Gros and Nagi and some other longtime players in LLYL, even leading for a time.  It'll hold a special place for me certainly - and be weird to face that clan flag.  But I've made many friends over the years, and now more of those friends are in other clans than in my current one.  I have much admiration for the leaders and players in all of the clans, my connection to the game is more generally with all the players than it is to any specific clan.
It took more than 10 minutes of trying to figure out how to actually leave a clan, since I've only done so once, years ago.  I have accepted an invitation from some friends in Reign to join.  So for now, that's where I'll be playing from.
Much love to LLYL and the players and friends there, I just needed a bit of a change. 
Still playing though.
Cheers!
Andernut.

Hey guys, 
For the second time in my Supermechs Life I've changed clans.  When Kongregate servers merged with the Supermechs server (long before reloaded) my clan in Kong mostly folded, I think most of them actually went to HTK.  At the time, I have no idea why, some players in HTK didn't accept me because they thought I was a spy or alt of someone else - so when Dany/Littlelost of LLYL invited me to join I accepted.  I almost didn't join at the time - I thought they would all be cocky jerks because they were long-reigning Gold Medal clan, and it turns out they weren't and we had many good times and many medals and build discussions.  
Most of the faces I knew in those days with LLYL are gone now, but for many years I played alongside Wep, Gros and Nagi and some other longtime players in LLYL, even leading for a time.  It'll hold a special place for me certainly - and be weird to face that clan flag.  But I've made many friends over the years, and now more of those friends are in other clans than in my current one.  I have much admiration for the leaders and players in all of the clans, my connection to the game is more generally with all the players than it is to any specific clan.
It took more than 10 minutes of trying to figure out how to actually leave a clan, since I've only done so once, years ago.  I have accepted an invitation from some friends in Reign to join.  So for now, that's where I'll be playing from.
Much love to LLYL and the players and friends there, I just needed a bit of a change. 
Still playing though.
Cheers!
Andernut.

Good morning, 
 
We've evaluated this thread and would like to explain a few things: 

When we bought the game we first took the time to see how Tacticsoft's event schedule plays out, how people respond to them, how we feel playing with them and so on. A few things we concluded, concerning portals specifically, I felt like, frankly, they were extremely boring. 
You click the mission, click auto-pilot and get your reward. No thinking, no strategy, no workshop required. If new, you may have to struggle a bit for the higher levels (if you feel like it), but really, even then, it's not strategy, it's just that you don't hit the required numbers yet. 
Said reward wasn't bad per se, a free 30-45 tokens (40-50 cents) for clicking 2 buttons isn't the worst of deals, but I wouldn't call it "fun"  and I personally believe games should aim to be fun first and foremost, rather fun than balanced, rather fun than fair, rather fun than anything else. We play to entertain ourselves, after all. 
So we began experimenting.
 
Ultimately I hoped with harder portals, people would learn more about the game, play more in the workshop, think more on their actions and turn off the darn autopilot. We felt that, after struggling to finish it, they should feel like it was worth it (a sense of achievement and satisfaction) so we combined this with drastically higher reward reflecting the up to 30 minutes you may be spending on it (or more, if you're less experienced / have a lesser inventory). 

Simultaneously, we felt this gave both motivation to improve your mech (better rewards) before you get into multiplayer, and more tokens for f2p-ers and small spenders to attempt to rise up a bit. With Hard and Easy you'd be pretty close to a premium pack and once you've had a few, insane would be achievable with enough strategy, and it would be a case mostly of reducing required revives. 
 
This didn't really affect our business beyond perhaps a minor drop in income, we didn't see any correlation with retention or such (after all, newbs just kind of do what they can and go do something else if they can't manage yet, plenty of hard content that isn't doable for them yet in SM and they don't value tokens as much until they've stuck around for a few weeks to months already), but we hoped it would be more fun that way. I like a challenge and some early reactions I heard (frustration, persistence, and then great happiness on success) made me feel like we were on the right track. 
 
This however doesn't deafen us to criticism - it is clear some players feel very scammed by the likely need to revive, discriminated by the difficulty and the last thing we wanted to do here is scam our playerbase and ruin an event they like. 
 
As such, the next portal has been set to Tacticsoft's settings - slightly better gold than TS gave, the higher token option (45 opposed to 30) and slightly easier difficulty than the old TS ones so it should be achievable for every single player. A flat out improvement, even if not really my personal cup of tea, opposed to a potential 'ruin' of the portals. We intend to stick with this for the foreseeable future pending feedback.
 
Thank you for your feedback everyone!
 
I'm closing this topic as the subject has been solved and some of these conspiracies are a bit much. 🙂
 

This is way better than the old gold portals, those were far fewer tokens, and I don't mind a challenge.
I may have missed the last couple gold portals but the tokens were very high.  Like 120 tokens?  I stacked phys resist and hps and used ranged energy with an EMP and won. (1 revive, didn't get health kits).
I did the same thing with energy swords with a different build - stack phys and resists and won but was lucky enough to get healthkit.
I lost my first run at the boss though and had to rebuilt my campaign mech because the boss battle was clearly much harder than the rest of the level if not prepared for it.
Don't forget you can exit and re-enter the fight to be at range 3 or 1 and not have to tank a hit from that mighty cannon.

This is way better than the old gold portals, those were far fewer tokens, and I don't mind a challenge.
I may have missed the last couple gold portals but the tokens were very high.  Like 120 tokens?  I stacked phys resist and hps and used ranged energy with an EMP and won. (1 revive, didn't get health kits).
I did the same thing with energy swords with a different build - stack phys and resists and won but was lucky enough to get healthkit.
I lost my first run at the boss though and had to rebuilt my campaign mech because the boss battle was clearly much harder than the rest of the level if not prepared for it.
Don't forget you can exit and re-enter the fight to be at range 3 or 1 and not have to tank a hit from that mighty cannon.

This is way better than the old gold portals, those were far fewer tokens, and I don't mind a challenge.
I may have missed the last couple gold portals but the tokens were very high.  Like 120 tokens?  I stacked phys resist and hps and used ranged energy with an EMP and won. (1 revive, didn't get health kits).
I did the same thing with energy swords with a different build - stack phys and resists and won but was lucky enough to get healthkit.
I lost my first run at the boss though and had to rebuilt my campaign mech because the boss battle was clearly much harder than the rest of the level if not prepared for it.
Don't forget you can exit and re-enter the fight to be at range 3 or 1 and not have to tank a hit from that mighty cannon.

All crap here, meaning none of the new modules.  I got tempted and should have known better.
2 legendary combined storage units that got me a little excited each time and then I saw they were just the upgraded epic crap versions.  Plat plate but can't use it on energy builds.
Overcooking Oven, Cooling Mass Booster, Mighty Cannon, Party Crasher, Energy Engine Module, Backstabber, Heatpoint, Platinum Plate, Combined Storage Unit, Dark Eagle, Molten Platinum Vest, Energy Free Armor, Sparked Runners, Rusty Energy Armor, Frantic Flame, Combined Storage Unit, Recoil Stompers, Basalt Polisher, Flamewave, Cooling Mass Booster, Brutality, Heat Engine Module

This is way better than the old gold portals, those were far fewer tokens, and I don't mind a challenge.
I may have missed the last couple gold portals but the tokens were very high.  Like 120 tokens?  I stacked phys resist and hps and used ranged energy with an EMP and won. (1 revive, didn't get health kits).
I did the same thing with energy swords with a different build - stack phys and resists and won but was lucky enough to get healthkit.
I lost my first run at the boss though and had to rebuilt my campaign mech because the boss battle was clearly much harder than the rest of the level if not prepared for it.
Don't forget you can exit and re-enter the fight to be at range 3 or 1 and not have to tank a hit from that mighty cannon.

This is way better than the old gold portals, those were far fewer tokens, and I don't mind a challenge.
I may have missed the last couple gold portals but the tokens were very high.  Like 120 tokens?  I stacked phys resist and hps and used ranged energy with an EMP and won. (1 revive, didn't get health kits).
I did the same thing with energy swords with a different build - stack phys and resists and won but was lucky enough to get healthkit.
I lost my first run at the boss though and had to rebuilt my campaign mech because the boss battle was clearly much harder than the rest of the level if not prepared for it.
Don't forget you can exit and re-enter the fight to be at range 3 or 1 and not have to tank a hit from that mighty cannon.

This is way better than the old gold portals, those were far fewer tokens, and I don't mind a challenge.
I may have missed the last couple gold portals but the tokens were very high.  Like 120 tokens?  I stacked phys resist and hps and used ranged energy with an EMP and won. (1 revive, didn't get health kits).
I did the same thing with energy swords with a different build - stack phys and resists and won but was lucky enough to get healthkit.
I lost my first run at the boss though and had to rebuilt my campaign mech because the boss battle was clearly much harder than the rest of the level if not prepared for it.
Don't forget you can exit and re-enter the fight to be at range 3 or 1 and not have to tank a hit from that mighty cannon.

This is way better than the old gold portals, those were far fewer tokens, and I don't mind a challenge.
I may have missed the last couple gold portals but the tokens were very high.  Like 120 tokens?  I stacked phys resist and hps and used ranged energy with an EMP and won. (1 revive, didn't get health kits).
I did the same thing with energy swords with a different build - stack phys and resists and won but was lucky enough to get healthkit.
I lost my first run at the boss though and had to rebuilt my campaign mech because the boss battle was clearly much harder than the rest of the level if not prepared for it.
Don't forget you can exit and re-enter the fight to be at range 3 or 1 and not have to tank a hit from that mighty cannon.

All crap here, meaning none of the new modules.  I got tempted and should have known better.
2 legendary combined storage units that got me a little excited each time and then I saw they were just the upgraded epic crap versions.  Plat plate but can't use it on energy builds.
Overcooking Oven, Cooling Mass Booster, Mighty Cannon, Party Crasher, Energy Engine Module, Backstabber, Heatpoint, Platinum Plate, Combined Storage Unit, Dark Eagle, Molten Platinum Vest, Energy Free Armor, Sparked Runners, Rusty Energy Armor, Frantic Flame, Combined Storage Unit, Recoil Stompers, Basalt Polisher, Flamewave, Cooling Mass Booster, Brutality, Heat Engine Module

All crap here, meaning none of the new modules.  I got tempted and should have known better.
2 legendary combined storage units that got me a little excited each time and then I saw they were just the upgraded epic crap versions.  Plat plate but can't use it on energy builds.
Overcooking Oven, Cooling Mass Booster, Mighty Cannon, Party Crasher, Energy Engine Module, Backstabber, Heatpoint, Platinum Plate, Combined Storage Unit, Dark Eagle, Molten Platinum Vest, Energy Free Armor, Sparked Runners, Rusty Energy Armor, Frantic Flame, Combined Storage Unit, Recoil Stompers, Basalt Polisher, Flamewave, Cooling Mass Booster, Brutality, Heat Engine Module

This is way better than the old gold portals, those were far fewer tokens, and I don't mind a challenge.
I may have missed the last couple gold portals but the tokens were very high.  Like 120 tokens?  I stacked phys resist and hps and used ranged energy with an EMP and won. (1 revive, didn't get health kits).
I did the same thing with energy swords with a different build - stack phys and resists and won but was lucky enough to get healthkit.
I lost my first run at the boss though and had to rebuilt my campaign mech because the boss battle was clearly much harder than the rest of the level if not prepared for it.
Don't forget you can exit and re-enter the fight to be at range 3 or 1 and not have to tank a hit from that mighty cannon.

This is way better than the old gold portals, those were far fewer tokens, and I don't mind a challenge.
I may have missed the last couple gold portals but the tokens were very high.  Like 120 tokens?  I stacked phys resist and hps and used ranged energy with an EMP and won. (1 revive, didn't get health kits).
I did the same thing with energy swords with a different build - stack phys and resists and won but was lucky enough to get healthkit.
I lost my first run at the boss though and had to rebuilt my campaign mech because the boss battle was clearly much harder than the rest of the level if not prepared for it.
Don't forget you can exit and re-enter the fight to be at range 3 or 1 and not have to tank a hit from that mighty cannon.

All crap here, meaning none of the new modules.  I got tempted and should have known better.
2 legendary combined storage units that got me a little excited each time and then I saw they were just the upgraded epic crap versions.  Plat plate but can't use it on energy builds.
Overcooking Oven, Cooling Mass Booster, Mighty Cannon, Party Crasher, Energy Engine Module, Backstabber, Heatpoint, Platinum Plate, Combined Storage Unit, Dark Eagle, Molten Platinum Vest, Energy Free Armor, Sparked Runners, Rusty Energy Armor, Frantic Flame, Combined Storage Unit, Recoil Stompers, Basalt Polisher, Flamewave, Cooling Mass Booster, Brutality, Heat Engine Module

All crap here, meaning none of the new modules.  I got tempted and should have known better.
2 legendary combined storage units that got me a little excited each time and then I saw they were just the upgraded epic crap versions.  Plat plate but can't use it on energy builds.
Overcooking Oven, Cooling Mass Booster, Mighty Cannon, Party Crasher, Energy Engine Module, Backstabber, Heatpoint, Platinum Plate, Combined Storage Unit, Dark Eagle, Molten Platinum Vest, Energy Free Armor, Sparked Runners, Rusty Energy Armor, Frantic Flame, Combined Storage Unit, Recoil Stompers, Basalt Polisher, Flamewave, Cooling Mass Booster, Brutality, Heat Engine Module

I realize I probably responded to you, it was a bit of a dig at the creator.  I went to recreate this thread (last January) on the new forums, I maintained and formatted all this information for a few years on the old forums website and found it copy-pasted here by someone else with no crediting the source (me).  Amusingly even keeping old links I had in the hidden tags as well.
 

I realize I probably responded to you, it was a bit of a dig at the creator.  I went to recreate this thread (last January) on the new forums, I maintained and formatted all this information for a few years on the old forums website and found it copy-pasted here by someone else with no crediting the source (me).  Amusingly even keeping old links I had in the hidden tags as well.
 

Love all the stats btw, where did you get them?

because gambling is forbidden for underage,that means SM would have to publish drop rates like any other legal game.
this is from game on MS store
 

I've always wondered - what causes us to be able to see replays of players?  I wanted to check out top players and I noticed Phoenix has 4 matches, Clevername has 2, but then the next two players Lord Gorgon and Invicktus have more replays than fit on their rematch screen?

Please don't do double post. 🙂 
 
 
We'll handle the first batch of transfers this weekend.