Extra Upgrade Slot

it would work at the lower levels but once you get into the mega amount of silver for an upgrade, I don't think you wouldn't be able to afford to have 2 upgrades running

I would LOVE to have the ability to buy extra upgrade slots.. Schhhhhhha-wing

You'd run out of silver  so fast it isn't funny. Hard enough to keep up as it is. As much as the idea sounds great on paper, in practice it'd be a nightmare. 

it might not sounf appealing
for those who only have lv 10-11 stuff to upgrade, but it helps for those new players who earn silver much faster than they can spend them.

Also, there are players like me who have no intention to upgrade anything past 9 and instead prefer to upgrade everything (even ecu) to 9. These players have no reason to spend money on premium account, which is a lost potential revenue for pix. Adding an extra upgrade slot will allow pix to cash in on these players, while they rejoice as they quickly level up plenty of things.

These players will keep upgrading things concurrently until they start to lose ag, at which point they might think to buy premium account to get silver fast to keep up with upgrades.

Its a win-win for players and pix

Well, if you're interested in a max hangar, 5 heavies, which is very common, lvl 11&12 costs you 200m alone. Then, god forbid, you have a fury zeus, lvl 12 is 91m for the 3.

And that's not including the rest of your weapons. Just one bots weapons and the bots put you at 291m. Orkans? Hold on tight. Ancile? You don't even wanna know, same prices as Zeus. Tridents or trebs for just a fury, n/m a butch? You're in the poor house trying to avoid debtors prison. Rdbs? Not cheap like you'd want or like, and this is one of the cheaper options.

It gets crazy FAST. 

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Silver isn't an issue. Waiting a month for two weapons is.

It only takes me about 3 days to generate 20M. At that rate I could've been done the Orkans in two weeks.

But silver WILL be an issue. I've been making 10m a day during the event and I'm nowhere close to being done. Trust me you need the longer upgrade times just to keep your head above water.

Again, if your goal is for a maxed hangar.






This is where I'm at. Ignore the carnage, it's just a test. The thunder belongs on an ancile slot and the carnage itself is a lol 10 fury with level 11 tridents. The almost maxed ancilot currently has 4ish more days to lol 12.

The prices are horrifying.

I would love to see this option in the game, and I am fully aware it would cause most players, including me, to run out of silver quickly if you go past level 9.

It's a fact, so stop debating it. Unless you play a ridiculous amount of time per day, you're not going to keep up with silver if you're upgrading two weapons at a time to 10, 11, 12. The people saying you wouldn't run out simply aren't there. It's like someone that's never been above Gold league trying to comment about what it's like playing in champions.

That said, the fact that most people would run out of silver is not a reason to not have it as an option. For some people, simply getting everything to level 9 twice as fast will make it worth it. And if you ever do stockpile enough to run two high level upgrades at a time, even better.

The only thing I'm curious about is how much money they currently make from people speeding upgrades. If that number is so high that it doesn't justify giving the extra upgrade slot option, then it will never happen. And remember, they don't only make money on upgrades when you buy gold to do it. If you're using your free gold to speed upgrades, and then you have no gold left when Dash bots come out and spend $100, it's the upgrades that made them that money. If it weren't for you speeding upgrades, you would've had enough free gold for the new bots.

I just feel like the argument you guys are having is pointless and completely unrelated to OP question. Every player that's experienced enough knows that silver is the most valuable resource in the game, and the hardest to acquire (in relation to how much you need of it). But if someone wants the option to spend it faster, why not give it to them? Depending on the price, I might buy it on my second account. With the + points for losers, it's almost impossible to run a second account for long - you play for two weeks, which is barely enough time to get half your hangar to level 7, and then you're already in Diamond league facing maxed hangars. There would be a viable market for second upgrade slots. Just because it wouldn't benefit top tier players doesn't mean it shouldn't be allowed in the game.

Tldr; yes.

Anything above 48 hours is too long. I've said as much in my test server feedback. I think the Pixies are hoping that one doesn't want to wait that long, and drop some gold to speed the process. Sneaky and tricksie, these Pixies.

Note that the meta has been changed to encourage/enforce players climbing through leagues and ultimately reaching Diamond or above. Granted, the cost of running multiple high-level upgrades simultaneously might prove impossible for most players. But, not all. And to get to the point of NOT being able to afford simultaneous upgrades, its necessary to first upgrade a LOT of gear. So, I'm all for it.

With that in mind, I do think the cost should be right around 1000Au. More than that and it's a tad outlandish. That's the same as it costs for the fourth slot, and IMHO the two would be fairly equivalent in value.

As someone who is not going past level 8 but loves variety I would absolutely love this option.

I could go for a 6th slot

Why not 9 at least for the bots just to max out on speed?

Hey Marty,

Back in Jan just before the new MM hit I was running a 6/8 heavy hangar, 3/7 medium and 2/5 light. I would also mix and match to create faction hangars for fun. My intention then was to slowly build up to a top tier hangar while maintaining the ability to play up and down, squad with my son and faction mates, all that stuff. 

Then the new MM hit. Was not a fan. As the chaos was working it's way out I upgraded all my heavies to 7, and then my Griffin to 8. It was around then that I realized just what the new MM entailed. A essentially damaged based league system that would not allow you to go up and down by swapping bots in and out of the hangar. I had already been placed in Gold 1. My lights and mediums were worthless. Upgrading my heavies further would only make them more so. I decided then and there that I was done climbing the league. 

So I froze my heavies in place, slotted in my lights and relentlessly upgraded them to 9, giving them level 8 weapons from my heavy lineup. They became my main hangar. Over the last thousand matches I've played, I've played them over 300x. I actually made D3 with them. After they hit 9, I began leveling up the mediums. They are now at 7 with a mix of level 7 and 8 weapons. My plan is to leave my heavies be, get my mediums up to 8 and have my lights at 9. My weapons range from 5-8 with a single L9 Thunder from the old MM days that was on a Boa that ran with my heavies. I'll bring the weapons up to 8. 

My goal is to be able to use any bot I own and have it operate at approximately the sameish level of effectiveness. I'm getting there. I like Gold1 (with occasional visits so far to G2 and D3). There is tons of bot variety there, I get to see everything. I get to use everything. I run faction hangars, weight class hangars and mixed hangars. That's ten catagories of hangar with plenty of flavors in each. I own 41 bots and use 40 of them, 30 regularly.  

Upgrading them to nine would just shove me up higher.