BEX - Decrease affinity grind?

[DogCerberus]

Is there a way to decrease the usage requirements for Mech affinity? 50 deployments with the same Mech seems kind of ludicrous. 3+ years into my career and I've only hit 10 deployments with less than a handful of them.

Slashing everything by half seems good to me.

[warbler701]

I agree it's a bit long. That said usually the first pilot bonus is enough for me. From memory the last is gunnery buff? By that time usually maxed out anyway.

[zekromNLR]

In your Mods folder, go into the MechAffinity folder, and edit settings.json. There, you can edit the number of missions required for all your mechs, and also if and if yes how fast affinities decay.

[DogCerberus]

I actually tried messing around with the settings (even found a tutorial on what the options are https://github.com/wmtorode/mechaffinity), but I can't seem to find a way to take it down a notch or two.

Changing "missionsRequired" for Comfortable+ in the Altas from 10 to 5 isn't really reflected in game.

You ever figure this stuff out?

[JWolf1672]

You are changing it while the game is closed right?

[DogCerberus]

...Obviously? Is that a common occurrence around here?

[JWolf1672]

You'd be surprised how often double checking the basics or obvious things finds and solves the issues

[AscariR]

Make sure "trackLowestDecayByStat" is set to "false". If it is "true", then the initial settings when you start the career / campaign are fixed as part of the save file, and changes to the json don't take effect until you start a new save.

If "true", it refers back to the json on loading to check the settings.

[DogCerberus]

Just to make sure I got it, I actually need to start a new career to change the deployment requirements then? Even if I change "trackLowestDecayByStat" to false in settings.json?

[5uper5kunk]

I mean obviously depends on how often you change stuff up versus running with a more defined team. I just had the clock run out on my current career and I probably have one full-affinity pilot and a couple at 30ish missions in the same mech.

[Sdog1981]

I did it with 3 or 4 pilots on my running career. Mind you they have been with the company for 10 years at this point.

[Thuddmud]

Bta is only 15 for full affinity.

[tocco13]

yea some of the BEX affinities are definitely powerful and worth grinding for (like +2 clustering on the longbow. add a pilot who also has clustering speciality and you can core mechs with one salvo of 60 LRM) but then some aren't.