There are many nice weapons and combos that few dare to invest hardly earned money on. We could improve build diversity and train players by allowing them to test all gear that they have access to, for free.

How?

You enter "test grounds". There you build mech from whichever parts available at your level. You get one random computer opponent of same level. You fight, that's it, no reward, no punishment, just testing things out. Your mech would not survive, each time you build new thing from ground.

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Good idea, voted yes

Yes from me.

Yes for me aswell.

I see nothing wrong with this, so you get a yes from me.

Sounds good for the customer(us) yes from me;)

Voted no. This takes a lot of strategy out of the game I think. Now you have to plan carefully what you're going to build by looking at the stats and work to make the money for these items. If I'm able to test mechs out, without actually thinking about what I'm equipping to my mech, I might just find a good combo with dumb luck. There's no skill in that ^_^

Yeah you make a really good point there, however, maybe there could be some sort of limit as to how many times you could test per player.

I don't think that is the right approach to take to this at all. The person that may find a good build will have put the time in to warrant their reward. This is the same way the "proper ratio" was discovered in bd, by players endlessly searching for the most efficient way to build a squad. Since super mechs is newer than bd they need the chance to have that opportunity to perfect things just as bd did. Also I'd consider this to be more of a battle simulator like we use in bd, an excellent tool that benefits everyone.

What about people without skill that still want to play? Shouldn't they get some "push-up"? first, and second, you would still need tho have and idea what you testing and some concept of how you should arrange things. So again you need shill. And if you got perfect combo by doing hundreds of combos and by sheer luck, then, you've got lucky. Again it's kind of effort.

I salute every option that will improve understanding of game mechanics and knowledge to masses, as always. Because now we have 10% of maniacs or paypal warriors, and rest of people. Blurring that line is always good thing.