Exlor
This is a excellent oppertunity for Ves to branch out his Training Series of Mechs and reach a wider audience. If Ves has a solid training X-factored mech in each tier he can be further guarnteed to reach a larger young audiance and increase the pressure the parents of young Potentates produce. The design points from the increased sales the extra exposure would produce would not hurt either.
Perhaps Ves should try to make a 3 or 4 star Light or Heavy mech that can compliment his Young Blood design in Iron Spirit. Does he even have a mech in the 4 star category? He could also go back and update his old 1 and 2 star designs or make new ones just as a mech designer pride thing. Also it would give his brand more recognition if he had more variety to suit people's differing play-style. Those sucesses should give him the DP to upgrade his skills enough to design his own mech faster. On a side note, no errors or incomplete sentences today! Huzzah!
I'd love to see how powerful his tier 5 mech would be in that game. with X-Factor. Maybe he should attempt to create a Squadron of Mechs for that level, each specialized and adapted to work together. And the X-factor from the overlapping Mechs augmenting and enhancing each mech if they fight together. Get his two Mech cousins that are guarding him to start up a team and find 3 or 7 more players from on planet to fight with the squadron.