MK2 UPGRADE BEWARE! (read this before you do it)

Yup. One of Pixonic's many money making schemes. Max out your robots till 12 and be forced to spent losts of silver and $$$ or gold to speed up to the bots/ weapon's normal performance.

It would make sense if you didnt lose any damage/health in the process but to essentially nerf your item until you push it to level 9 MKII is just stupid.

This Mk2 is just a differentiation between big spenders and really big spenders. They basically segmented the top paying market and provided an extra incentive to spend more money. The non linear upgrade path in terms of strength is the mechanism that forces many to pull out the cash to short track the upgrades. And if sufficient people do this than they just introduce MK3 and MK4 and so on. There is no concern for fair play by Pixonic. one example after another clearly demonstrated that recently.

For me the biggest issue is that this grab for cash mechanism provides an even more unlevelled playing field. It is really all about seal clubbing now. The more you pay the bigger the club they hand you. And since they can bring out these changes one after the other their limit is only going to be at a point where people wont put any more money into this so called game or when people stop playing.

I challenge anybody to explain how this thing is a “game” when a MK2 taran of a super whale has a 40% advantage over the L10 taran of a diamond/expert player. Gets worse when you compare for instance a 9/10 taran rog with a maxed MK2 taran rog as an example. Fire power – 60K additional cycle damage. Bot health – 133K HP to 180K HP. that's like a level 1/1 taran rog going up against a L 9/9 taran rog. And when you consider the same scenario for an OP bot like the Haechi the differentiation becomes even greater. and even greater when comparing that haechi to just about any other bot that it enjoys its advantage over.

I would also ask the people who max out their 5 haechi hangers to MK 2. Whats the point of playing? Is it fun playing? And if so, why?

They want to squeeze the last piece of silver and Au so you'll buy premium or Au to rush your upgrades of the important items because once you hit mk2 level 1, you can't compete to face the reds that have better mk1 equipment unless you pay more than you should.

Didn't click the "more" button, huh?

I swapped out the weapon I'm upgrading to MKII until it's useful again.

I am the first to call out Pix and their shoddy practises but the "reincarnation" mechanic is definately not new. You give up all progress and trade it for potential. Add in the fact that the silver cost to go 11-12 is still less than you would expect for Levels 13-14 and the fact the information on how it works is easily available.....

I think this one is user error.

Deadset against Mk2 by the way. But I don't see anything unfair about the progess vs potential trade off.

Here is a great example of what not to do:




this guy has trashed his hangar and got no benefit.

i would say weapons first, one at a time and take out of rotation until back to level 10. It will be a pain for the next 6 months or so and will eat up all gold and silver for most of that time I too I guess

good to know in advance... I was going to first try mkII on my destrier but now im just going to do the weapons..

Actually, no, it fits their recent money making schemes perfectly.