Chapter 33: Hard At Work
Alto did not have any chance but to create an account in the game, though it was not recommended it was his only option. Aside from the account that contained the in-game currency, real money could be stored in a separate account like an in-game bank. Alto made up his mind to open an online bank account later, after he had concluded the transaction with Mister E and received his payment, his client was still not done with him.
It did not take long for Mister E to confirm the authenticity of the product, apparently there were many fake versions of old gen mechs this made Mister E interested in him. His client ended up giving Alto (Bob) his private contact in the eventuality that he came across another old gen mech design.
Alto did not turn down such and interesting offer to make free money, he could just have the mech designer protocol search for another degraded washed up model sometime in the future.
Now with the money in hand, Alto tried to use it sparingly, he converted a little amount of it to credits which he used to buy the mech plates he would use to fortify the mech design.
Alto tried to manage his resources but after a lot of refitting he found it best to not cut corners, he eventually bought ten pieces of the compact mech armour plate for 50000 credits. He never knew making a virtual mech was an expensive act, after acquiring the mech plates he knew the weight of the mech would be increased slightly but it would not reduce it’s speed by much. It was an improvement over the previous poorly constructed design.
After addressing the problem of the design model and the resources Alto started to focus on weapons, he knew the mech would have to be armed with one eventually and since he took out it’s shoulder mounted lasers he knew he would have to compensate for it somehow.
He wanted to equip a melee weapon like a sword at first but paused after a bit of consideration, he realised that he had no weapon optimization skill of any level.
So he looked up what he could on weapons and mechs with how the players felt using them. As he suspected light mechs were known to use melee weapons like swords, daggers, but more conventional weapons like laser pistols and plasma rifles were used too.
Alto did not know how using a melee weapon would fare in a battle so he chose to leave that for last. Or maybe not. The more he thought about it the more he was confused on what weapon to equip into his light mech.