that's pay to win all rigth! so what's next? huh?

It's moot for me. I don't spend cash on phone/iPad games.

If the pendulum swings too far to P2W, I'm done. It remains to be seen what that break point is. I think it's different for each person. I'm concerned by what I read, but like others, I'm reserving judgment until the dust settles.

That said, the game is vastly different in execution than the game I started playing well over a year ago. Some bells and whistles are good, but others aren't. Meanwhile some longstanding issues languish.

Sorry. Much longer and divergent answer than the OP requested.

Pay to win my 「bum-bum」...One can easily set up a hanger full of silver bots and weapons and still get to Champion with them. One can shorten the time to get there by speeding upgrades for these bots/weapons.

The one thing I will say is that many overlook the component of having a strong squad of clan mates you can trust and depend on to ride through the Gold/ Diamond /Expert beat downs...Randoming your way in to Champ is like threading a needle with your tongue..

And there will be a way to stick it to the man..But I will have to wait to divulge the details ..soon.

Yeah it doesn't really seem "pay to win" yet, and it doesn't look like the coming changes will make it p2w either. Rockwelder is absolutely correct, you can be completely competitive with a f2p hangar. There is a concept in magic the gathering referred to as "win more". What that means is that the card will probably win you the game, but if you could cast it you were probably already winning anyway. That's how I see the situation. The people that can afford the new gear could already afford the best gear previously. All they are gaining is a slight advantage over the big advantage they already had. Soon there will be a nerf, and then all they are paying for is rarity (also happens in mtg when people decide to "foil out" a whole deck). What I see as being the bigger problem is that the addition of components further fragments currency by giving each new item what amounts to its own specific currency (unless you can purchase them with in-game currency)

Well if you want to improve and end up in Expert+, you'll realize it is pay to win right now.  Full Dash hangers are ridiculously strong. Those Robots are difficult to kill and have just enough damage (180k with Orkans) to kill a Griffin, Lance, Fury or Carnage in a single cycle.

It's not P2W currently, it's P2G2W, pay to gamble to win.

The proposal in the OP is moot, as there is no ability to transfer anything from one account to another.

Now, my definition of "pay 2 win" is that bad players with deep pockets will win 95% of the time against good players that spent less. That may not be the case now, because having a hangar with 5 Dash bots will not give you _that_ big an advantage over other 12/12 players that have been around for more than a year . But the new Mk2 upgrades will break this, big time if the numbers hinted in the spot are even remotely accurate. Assuming robots and weapons can be upgraded, you 

I invite you to start playing in facebook gameroom. The game is 2 months old there, so a player that started right away might have an 8/8 hangar from regular upgrades. My hangar is still fresh and at about 6/5.5, and I play on a regular basis against 10/10 to 12/12 Ancilots/Haechis, where even a Thunder Punisher Natty has ttrouble  makeíNightingale a dent in the shield.  Sometimes I'm in a pretty good squad, and we get steamrolled in matches that last under 4 minutes by squads that simply use 10/10 or better robots compared to our bots that are mostly around level 6-7.

Aye, those who pay big do win big, even if they play like you_know_what. (And fb gameroom is cheap. I figure a player would need to spend $100 to speed-upgrade to level 10/10, if he earns the silver from playing.)

And now consider that the difference between a Mk1 and a Mk2 robot will be much larger than the difference between level 6 and level 10. 
And a player can now spend much more money. If a Cossack is 5000 gold to upgrade, say all a Lance costs is 15k gold, plus another 15k gold to speed the upgrades, plus 30k gold for the weapons, so for $500 you get a 12/12 Mk2 Lancelot that has twice the HP and twice the firepower than a 12/12 Mk1.

Sounds outlandish? Just watch that video again.

Dashes are OP! Full stop.
You can only get dashes via RM.
Dashes give you a significant advantage over other bot pilots. Skill is less relevant
You buy gold and silver you can advance faster and gives you a significant advantage irrespective of skill.

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Pay to win. We are already well inside any reasonable definitions of P2W. the question is are we going to go deeper into P2W territory.


OP, I am not sure what can be done. Any suggestion to gain access to pay 2 win content would lessen Pixs push into P2W. It really depends on Pix. express your opinion to pix. Opinion will provide feed back and will at least have some degree of influence on the direction.

This is out of keeping with the signature right next to your post.

Which is it?

Alright!

You are way more efficient than me.  You get a better win rate for less damage and kills per game than me.

Think about it guys. What would happen if nobody paid a dime in this game? We wouldn't have a game to play! All the complaints about whales and such...well, the whales are probably the main reason many can play this game free and without annoying ads!

Every game that is "free to play" will have incentives to pay real money to do better in the game. That's how the developers keep the lights on after all. Me, I'd rather that than have ads that pop up constantly.

Ship is not a good map for dashes either, and I don't think Rome is either.  Rome has a theme similar to Dreadnought with that central enclosed space.