Let's appeal to your avarice and pride in a way that spends tokens competitively!

How much is a Mythical Box woth to ya? Do you deserve a discount Mythical Box because you are smarter and a 'better player' than the rest of these punks? Put your tokens where your tongue is!

Eight players each put in an entry free to play in a mech tournament against one another, single elimination, winner take home a Mythic Box. The catch? No one uses their own mech.

Players will essentially be sent to a lobby where 'rental parts' are provided in a big pile. The players in random order will select parts for their tournament mech or to block parts from being used by other players for their mechs. This can be Rochester face up or silent auction, but inevitably the shrewdest, luckiest, and most tactical player is intended to win the day.

Tacticsoft sells a slightly more expensive box than usual and small spenders get a new way to use those leftover tokens.

If they ever get an AdPay system working, expect to be selling a lot of advertising to tourney addicts.

If you think this is a form of gambling and/or that gambling is wrong, then please continue to vote against online poker, online fantasy sports, online scratchers, and sports books; these profitable economy boosters are far bigger business and therefore a different magnitude of moral decay than what I suggest.

YAS....Or how about - Completely random parts in your temporary inventory (With 8 side weapons, 4 top weapons, 14 modules,etc.... 2x everything). You have 2 minutes to assemble a mech before you battle. No kits, No mythicals. That's the only rule.

I think that player supporters have alot of ideas to input regarding a tournament of skill and savvy. If the developers need another model to look at, I recall that Gunbound had a No Avatar room as a proving ground for new players and seasoned veterans that share a belief that skill deserves merit separate from luck of the draw or p2p.

If the small parts are eventually going to be obsoleted (item rarities 1-14), then the "Rental Arena" may eventually be the way to go. There ought to be bigger rewards for tourneys involving mechs of owned parts. But, the Rental Arena will be there to teach players concepts, get them familiar with builds and item types, and a situation where there really ought to be fewer whiners since the field is more equalized.

If the concept of a new arena is more complex to code than desirable at this time, then maybe a baby step is in order. Offer a low cost dreambox or draftbox with a pile of durability 1 items. It lowers the cost of entry into spending that first quid AND provides the exploratory benefit and rarity satisfaction to disincentivized players. A few tokens to play with a few mythicals for a battle or two is far better than farming SM for hours, buying sm boxes, and then recycling them into disappointing single mythicals that get two uses.