The Mech Touch novel Chapter 3774

Chapter 3774 - Revisiting Old Lines

If Ves wanted to design a truly effective growth-oriented training mech, then he had to bestow it with an additional advantage.

The benefits he had in mind were the same as the ones he envisioned for his spirit fruits. _{ƒreewebɳovel.com}

For example, piloting his training mech could slowly activate and draw out a mech cadet's spiritual potential. Piloting his training mech could also increase a mech cadet's talent in a specific fighting skill.

These were benefits that were unique and incomparable to any other product on the market! No other mech designer should be able to impart their mech designs with these fantastic features or else the mech market would have already been dominated by these innovations!

The difficulty of implementing them was much higher as a consequence. Ves had no idea where to begin and he might need to spend a lot more time in order to develop the essential mechanisms.

All of that could still wait as Ves wasn't in a hurry to begin the actual design process. It was already enough for him to come up with the mech concepts and determine whether they were worth pursuing.

Ves and Gloriana eventually picked up their daughter after she had her fun playing in the park. They returned to their grand stateroom together with Lucky and Clixie and enjoyed a private meal before they continued their discussion on the next design round.

"Meow~"

Lucky squinted his eyes in pleasure as Ves scratched the cat's head.

"Miaow miaow."

Clixie cuddling with Aurelia as usual. The cat and little girl looked exceptionally cute as they laid together on a couch.

"Kixie!"

"Miaow!"

"In addition to designing a training mech, I am thinking about designing a second-class version of one of my old products." Ves told his wife.

"Hm?" Gloriana frowned a bit as she paused in brushing the leather of her expensive handbag. "Which ones do you have in mind?"

"I am not certain yet. I have several viable choices, though the Desolate Soldier is the most obvious choice."

"I don't necessarily think that is the most optimal choice, Ves."

"Why not?"

"First, let me ask you this. Where will you sell the new mech? The Yeina Star Cluster or the Red Ocean? You can't sell this product to both markets without putting in additional effort because the production circumstances are much different."

The materials available for producing mechs were always different from region to region. This was especially the case when the regions were separated by hundreds of thousands of light-years!

On top of that, the production standards and the production equipment could vary in different regions.

This was why each mech design had to be customized to the region they were produced and sold at. If not, producing the same mech in a different location might multiply the production cost by two or three times!

While it was possible for mech designers like Ves to quickly design a localized variant of an existing mech design, it wasn't enough to make a hasty attempt this time.

They had to design a mech for a specific region from the ground up if they wanted to enter the second-class mech markets in a proper fashion. That meant they needed to decide where to market their upcoming mech designs right from the beginning!

Ves thought about it for a moment and decided that the added design burden was worth the effort.

"We can't ignore either mech market, Gloriana. I have been receiving regular reports that our business operations in the Yeina Star Cluster have steadily stagnated since we left the place. While our third-class mechs are still useful to the customer base, the lack of excitement and momentum will severely damage the continuation of the LMC if this goes on. We need to revive our third-class mechs as well as tap the second-class mech market in our former home region."

He revealed several new ambitions to his wife. Gloriana did not miss the crucial points of his answer.

"Designing third-class mechs costs time. Designing second-class mechs costs time as well. If we split up our design time even further, it will take years to get anything done. Are you sure it is worthwhile to stay involved in the third-class mech market? The LMC still sells millions of Desolate Soldiers and Ferocious Piranhas a month, but how much profit do we earn for all of that effort?"

"Around 5000 MTA credits a month last I heard." Ves recalled. "I know it doesn't sound like a lot due to the extremely low earnings per sale, but the competition in the third-class mech market is much less threatening towards us, so it is an extremely reliable source of revenue. In addition to that, our current monthly sales volume is hardly the limit that we can reach. Our success in the old galaxy is almost entirely propped up by two third-class mech models. One of them is a spaceborn rifleman mech while the other is a spaceborn light skirmisher. That only covers two of a dozen essential archetypes! If we complete our catalog of third-class mech designs with additional products such as a space knight, a swordsman mech and an artillery mech, we can easily multiply our current earnings figures!"

"Why bother, then? I can understand why you want to continue the LMC's success in the Yeina Star Cluster, but it is much harder to get started in the Red Ocean due to the difficult market circumstances here. The third-class mech market in this dwarf galaxy is a lot more troublesome to enter."

"Maybe you're right, but we should still try at least once. If it works, then great. If it doesn't work, then we can skip this course of action next time. It doesn't really matter since we can still offload much of the workload to our assistants."

"Not if we burden them with too many mech design projects. Our assistants will need to spend at least 50 percent more time to design two different localized versions of a single mech."

"Then we will just start off with fewer third-class products than before. We don't need to offer up a complete collection of mech models right at the start."

The two talked about what sort of third-class mech designs they wished to introduce to both mech markets.

"We should design more modern editions of the Desolate Soldier, the Ferocious Piranha, the Doom Guard and the Aurora Titan. I intend to reimagine them all so that they can offer comprehensively better value than before."

His wife understood the desire to refresh the first three mech models. Each of them enjoyed a lot of commercial success and updating their designs would definitely invigorate the LMC's flagging sales!

However, Gloriana did not quite agree with all of his choices.

"Are you certain about the Aurora Titan? It has never achieved much success. Its total sales are negligible compared to our bestsellers."

"That's because I made too many abnormal decisions while not offering enough value. I intend to change the concept of the Aurora Titan so that it adopts a more familiar configuration. If we design it as a more conventional heavy knight, it will probably receive a lot more appreciation."

This was still a risky decision because the current Aurora Titan model had never achieved critical success. Ves and the LMC needed to generate demand for the updated edition from scratch!

"I recall you also have the Crystal Lord. Do you want to design a Mark III version of this third-class mech model?"

Ves shook his head. "No. Not yet at least. I don't think I am ready yet. The Crystal Lord makes use of third-class luminar technology, which I have become a lot more familiar with over the years. That said, there are too many limitations to mechs at this performance level and I am not confident I can deliver a significantly stronger design than the current Crystal Lord Mark II."

He still intended to revisit this mech line, but not before he updated his other lines.