SawzAll

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I would like to recommend a survival mode game play mode.  It can be listed as the fourth "campaign" mode if you want, or a new button above the base, etc.
Basically the player (3v3) has to see how many tanks, buggies, and mechs they can survive.  Rewards could be experience, gold, and tokens at whatever intervals are decided, etc.
To feed this on the software side, basically take all the enemies in all the campaign modes (as if this was a spreadsheet or something) and sort from lowest to highest hitpoints.
Or if that's not how the software works, whatever interval you want (i.e. enemies are random element and then add 50 hit points to them at each spawn, or whatever).
This would add a new thing to master.  Unlike raid where (I hear) equipping multiple heat bombs might help one succeed, this would require people to equip weapons that are not limited in how many times they can fire.  This would therefore be a refreshing new game play mode.
Titan is already slightly similar, but a different concept.  For titan, you probably want weapons that can fire an unlimited number of times.   But here, you would probably need a mech with good heating, cooling, resistance, and weapons, because the enemies don't stop coming, and they are random elements (heat/energy/physical).
The enemies can start off as easy as the first day of Raid, but then go all the way up to bosses at the end of 3V3 if you want.
Please reply and let me know what you think.

I am just a newbie so please forgive me if this is out of line.
By the damage stats you gave, that technically makes it an average damage of 360, just like the old version.
I think from what I've experienced and seen in the arena, and heard from the long-time players, is that the problem is more that the random rolls don't seem random.
This may be due to the human brain's tendency to see a pattern where there is none.
How are random numbers done in this game?  In the code, is it pulling from the CPU's random number generator?  Would it be possible instead to take a page from pokemon (tm) and instead substitute a very large list of numbers that are known to be truly random, such as (for example) those listed in the back of statistical and scientific research related textbooks?
I think heat cost is fine, but I can see a benefit to increasing energy cost, so that energy mechs aren't really close to an energy break only for their enemy to be able to fire frantic brute one last time for tons of damage.
I would say that maybe the solution is to make the weapon slightly heavier.  It weighs less than a malice beam, and the malice beam does 321 average damage specifically to energy drained mechs, 194 average damage to mechs that aren't drained of energy.
Like, today I had that conundrum with my energy mech: do I equip frantic lighting (50kg) or UltraBright (56kg) or Hot Flash (66 kg)?  Frantic Lightning is tempting because it's lighter, and would deliver a crushing blow to a mech that's drained.
I guess 2 shots rather than unlimited compensates for power to weight, but seriously if I see a dual frantic brute player in an arena match, I try to match up with my energy mech and pray to God I don't die.  Usually, if even one of those is mythic, I'm dead. (my energy mech is 1500 hp roughly).
Anyways, that's my 2 cents.  EDIT: I would think its average damage needs to be less than Spartan, but that's my opinion.  Maybe make it the F2P Spartan, but keep the damage spread wide.  That way it's for people who like to gamble.
Is there an alternate supermechs server that's strictly for testing where we could test this out?  Stats are nice on paper, but as we all know, sometimes what's on paper doesn't match up to reality.  I would suggest that such a thing would be necessary: an undocumented, undisclosed test server given out only to the very few who are helping to test.  All accounts would have one divine of everything so that players can equip stuff to fight in arena and test things out with.

I am SawzAll from the SuperMechs game and (previous) Tactisoft forum.
I'm working on a graduate degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling.
I was an airplane mechanic for the United States Air Force for 20 years.
I love the color blue and energy mechs, as you can probably tell.
I have been playing roughly 3 months and am roughly arena rank 11 (at this time).
I am a Pay-to-Support (P2S) player who spends his birthday and Christmas money on the game, as well as doing the $5/month subscription.  If it's good enough for Netflix, it's good enough for SuperMechs.
I have helped test software both for the military and for the Linux community.  I also love math, spreadsheets, and science.
Ask me anything you want.

I am SawzAll from the SuperMechs game and (previous) Tactisoft forum.
I'm working on a graduate degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling.
I was an airplane mechanic for the United States Air Force for 20 years.
I love the color blue and energy mechs, as you can probably tell.
I have been playing roughly 3 months and am roughly arena rank 11 (at this time).
I am a Pay-to-Support (P2S) player who spends his birthday and Christmas money on the game, as well as doing the $5/month subscription.  If it's good enough for Netflix, it's good enough for SuperMechs.
I have helped test software both for the military and for the Linux community.  I also love math, spreadsheets, and science.
Ask me anything you want.

I am SawzAll from the SuperMechs game and (previous) Tactisoft forum.
I'm working on a graduate degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling.
I was an airplane mechanic for the United States Air Force for 20 years.
I love the color blue and energy mechs, as you can probably tell.
I have been playing roughly 3 months and am roughly arena rank 11 (at this time).
I am a Pay-to-Support (P2S) player who spends his birthday and Christmas money on the game, as well as doing the $5/month subscription.  If it's good enough for Netflix, it's good enough for SuperMechs.
I have helped test software both for the military and for the Linux community.  I also love math, spreadsheets, and science.
Ask me anything you want.

Increasing the bottom damage and top damage by the same gives the same average damage which I believe is still an issue with the frantic. Personally I feel a fair damage would be the following:
Buff min damage 84 -> 175  Nerf top damage 779 -> 645 Nerf energy cost 10 -> 25 This takes the average damage from 431.5 to 410.  (For reference Spartans average damage is 388)
 

I am SawzAll from the SuperMechs game and (previous) Tactisoft forum.
I'm working on a graduate degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling.
I was an airplane mechanic for the United States Air Force for 20 years.
I love the color blue and energy mechs, as you can probably tell.
I have been playing roughly 3 months and am roughly arena rank 11 (at this time).
I am a Pay-to-Support (P2S) player who spends his birthday and Christmas money on the game, as well as doing the $5/month subscription.  If it's good enough for Netflix, it's good enough for SuperMechs.
I have helped test software both for the military and for the Linux community.  I also love math, spreadsheets, and science.
Ask me anything you want.

I am SawzAll from the SuperMechs game and (previous) Tactisoft forum.
I'm working on a graduate degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling.
I was an airplane mechanic for the United States Air Force for 20 years.
I love the color blue and energy mechs, as you can probably tell.
I have been playing roughly 3 months and am roughly arena rank 11 (at this time).
I am a Pay-to-Support (P2S) player who spends his birthday and Christmas money on the game, as well as doing the $5/month subscription.  If it's good enough for Netflix, it's good enough for SuperMechs.
I have helped test software both for the military and for the Linux community.  I also love math, spreadsheets, and science.
Ask me anything you want.