Many companies adopted price-cutting strategies, hoping to attract customers with lower prices.
Some companies even lowered their prices close to cost to draw in buyers, but the strategy proved ineffective.
Some company representatives even explained the performance of their own MS, boasting powerful firepower or defensive capabilities, the ability to equip various weapons, and how they could not be compared to an MS with such monotonous equipment as the Strike Dagger.
Although some procurement representatives understood what those company representatives meant and agreed with their suggestions, most of them gave the same reason: "What you say makes sense. We understand that many MS need powerful firepower for suppression or strong defenses to protect their pilots. But your machines are relatively complicated to operate, which will affect pilots in combat. The complexity of their controls will also affect the time needed to train MS pilots. The simply operated Strike Dagger MS, on the other hand, will shorten the time needed to train our MS pilots."
The companies now understood why the buyers were purchasing Strike Dagger MS in such large quantities.
Yet some companies still refused to give up. One company president shouted toward the representatives gathered around Skywing Arms Manufacturing Company, "Esteemed procurement representatives, although the Strike Dagger is easy to operate, no matter how simple it is, we still have to see whether it can truly perform in real combat. How about pitting our company's latest MS against the Strike Dagger MS in a realistic simulated battle?"
The procurement representatives found the suggestion reasonable. It would be best to test whether the Strike Dagger MS truly possessed practical combat capability.
Skywing Arms Manufacturing Company was more than willing to conduct a simulated combat test.
The venue was arranged in space outside the local colony. The MS from both companies