Destroying your own mechs!

[Cigarjohn]

Be careful! I was farming a city very heavily and decided to be greedy and place one of my Vultures loaded with Light Lasers and Long Range Rifles and 2 Basic Platings to protect it from other strangers who want to farm it and I forgot and sent three of my Raptors to farm it and my mech destroyed my Raptors. I didn't get any exp. pts. for it and had to re-build. I learned my lesson.

Be cautious! Your own mechs won't recognize your own mech and will fight against them if there defending a city that doesn't belong to you.


Peace!

 

[raptor217]

You actually can get experience, the mechs that defended should have. Thats a trick for getting experience quickly, send 2 raptors against each other and recover them then upgrade them to spider tanks when they've gone up a few levels.

 

[5starGeneralAlphaSnake]

Really?

 

[Cruel Device]

Hint: Defending bots gain experience only when they get damaged...

 

[Stick]

Hint: Defending bots gain experience only when they get damaged...

Hit it on the head

 

[EternalGriever]

Hint: Defending bots gain experience only when they get damaged...

Same goes for attacking ones, it works both ways.

Also John, make sure that the cell production in that city is higher than your mech's cell consumption or it will get destroyed by starvation. Did that once and learned the lesson.

 

[5starGeneralAlphaSnake]

So i can send a raptor with a light machine gun to a city and attack it with the clone of it? The upgrade to spider?
Whats the point of higher levels?

 

[ChocolateVillain]

So i can send a raptor with a light machine gun to a city and attack it with the clone of it? The upgrade to spider?
Whats the point of higher levels?

You get exp for the fight. With the exp you can improve your mech's speed, hull strength, capacity, and so forth.

The thing is you do it with a low lvl mech so it is faster and wont cost you alot when you lose the other mech.

raptor vs raptor = good exp amount/cheap

spider vs raptor = no exp/costing you resources

spider vs spider = good exp amount/exspensive

 

[5starGeneralAlphaSnake]

I should see further help in vent.
Or try 2mrw because my brain is off.

 

[Angreifen]

Hint: Defending bots gain experience only when they get damaged...

well that sucks.... because my mechs don't get damaged when I'm attacking or defending..... I've been in about a dozen battles with them so far, and they haven't been hit once. I was wondering why they weren't gaining experience...

 

[FrikFry]

Folks, you don't have to blow up a mech to get experience in the battle. Heres what ya do.

Make sure both of the mechs you are sending are armed with a basic metal plate and a long range rifle. Set both of your mechs to "move to max range" and make sure they are set to escape at "no armor". This will keep them at the extreme range of their weapons and they'll both sit there plinking at each other until one of them loses its armor. Whichever one has to drop out will leave the battlefield and the other one won't chase it. Both mechs will survive the battle and you'll just have to rearm whichever one loses its armor.

 

[5starGeneralAlphaSnake]

Can you also do that with Light machine gun and no armor and do it 50% health?

 

[AndyMaDas]

For farming make sure you do not over arm your mechs, a good setup is to use 1x mech with 3-5 Machine Guns and a metal plating so you don't keep repairing your mech and the rest carrying only transport platforms

 

[raptor217]

Hmm, you could do it that way too. Im just not sure if it gives you less exp than destroying a mech.

 

[FrikFry]

You still get a good amount. And yes 5star, that would work but it wouldn't work as well.

 

[raptor217]

Hmm, well I'm too lazy to call them back and wait for them to return, I'd rather just recover them.