Cosmic Exploration Upgrade Scaling

[Fynlar]

If you're in a mech, you can completely solo the Mech Ops yourself, on either mech. As long as one person is in a mech, you can pass. But no matter how many people you have on ground support, you will fail if someone isn't in one.
It's a bizzare thing, because the game *wants* you to be ground support since you get the credit bonus, and the mech you just get a Big Bang ticket (or the rare mount drop) which... At this point is just for the 1000 spins achievement and nothing else.

The thing is, for being a pilot, you are given a chunk of cosmocredits (250, I think?) right away upon op success, something you can actually guarantee as a pilot. With being a ground support, you are given far less at first and have to earn the rest of your "reward" over the course of the next 20 missions you do (hopefully you remember to actually complete those missions, and are not doing anything like mission cycling or attempting any of the harder A rank ones where failure is something that might happen). The only saving grace here is that as long as you contribute anything you seem to always get the bonus afterward, even if the op fails.

The ground support "bonus" is not substantial enough to be worth going for, basically. You might as well pilot and get your cosmocredits right away. Spending lunar credits to be a pilot isn't an issue, because the ONLY thing the lunar credits are used for is wheel spins anyway, and by being a pilot you are basically exchanging your lunar credits for better wheel spins (at the exact same cost) and the ability to actually contribute to the op.

Aside from the achievement of winning 50 ops as a ground support, there's basically no reason to not be a pilot.