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'No, I'm not complaining about how they aren't actually "double" heatsinks.'
There is, however, still an issue with the veracity of the claim by PGI that heatsinks in the engine actually are counted as 2.0, while ones outside it are counted as 1.4, because at most, only half of that statement is true. I'm not sure which half, and it's also possible that it's entirely false, at least for my example.
And yes, there are pictures.
(This is gonna be long, but it's mostly pictures anyways.)
*ahem*
As many people who play this game know, engines, both standard and XL, contain 1 heatsink for every number of times their engine rating is divisible by 25, rounded down.
Engine Size vs Internal Heatsinks:
100 -------------------- 4
105 -------------------- 4
110 -------------------- 4
115 -------------------- 4
120 -------------------- 4
125 -------------------- 5
130 -------------------- 5
135 -------------------- 5
140 -------------------- 5
145 -------------------- 5
150 -------------------- 6
155 -------------------- 6
160 -------------------- 6
165 -------------------- 6
170 -------------------- 6
175 -------------------- 7
etc.
Once it reaches an Engine rating of 250, there are no more automatic heat sinks. Instead, it provides you with space to include your own, at the cost of additional tonnage being used up, but not additional critical slots. I believe that heatsinks which are not included in the engine are counted as being outside the engine (for the purpose of determining how many heatsinks they count for), regardless of where they are actually placed. (EX: You have an XL 300, and you put 2 DHS in the critical slots where they are allowed to be placed. Despite them being placed in the engine, they are only counted as 1.4, instead of 2.0, which is what they should be.)
And the 'counted as 2.0 as they should be', is what brings me to my problem:
So, I took screenshots of my Hunchback SP, with two different engine sizes in it.
The first set is with a Standard 245 Engine in it, while the second set is with a Standard 250 Engine in it.
The screenshots of are of the same hunchback, with the exact same configuration, save for the engine size, and the amount of ammo in the one with the 250. I removed one ton of ammo from that configuration to demonstrate that even if the weapons remain the same, the heat efficiency does not change, which is not what is supposed to happen.
The screenshots are in the order of:
'master configuration' (this one shows the total number of heatsinks as well as the engine size and weapon loadout)
'head configuration'
'center torso configuration'
'right torso configuration'
'left torso configuration'
'right arm configuration'
'left arm configuration'
'right leg configuration'
'left leg configuration'
'armor configuration'
(In case the images are too small for you to read properly, you can click on them to bring them up in a separate view which shows it at full resolution.)
Here are the screenshots of the first set (Standard 245 Engine):
Master Configuration:
Head Configuration:
Center Torso Configuration:
Right Torso Configuration:
Left Torso Configuration:
Right Arm Configuration:
Left Arm Configuration:
Right Leg Configuration:
Left Leg Configuration:
Armor Configuration:
Here are the screenshots of the second set (Standard 250 Engine):
Master Configuration:
Head Configuration:
Center Torso Configuration:
Right Torso Configuration:
Left Torso Configuration:
Right Arm Configuration:
Left Arm Configuration:
Right Leg Configuration:
Left Leg Configuration:
Armor Configuration:
Notice how the weapons loadout doesn't change? Both loadouts of the mech have:
2x SRM 6 + Artemis
1x TAG
4x Medium Lasers
12x DHS.
BUT
The first variant has 9 heatsinks in the engine, (which should each be counted as 2.0 heatsinks), while the second variant has 10 heatsinks in the engine, (which should each be counted as 2.0 heatsinks).
The issue here, is that the heat efficiency for both mechs remains at 1.07/2.00 -- this is, according to the supposed rules of DHS, impossible.
For mech 1:
has 9 heatsinks in engine, counted at 2.0 each, and 3 heatsinks outside engine, counted at 1.4 each.
For mech 2:
has 10 heatsinks in engine, counted at 2.0 each, and 2 heatsinks outside engine, counted at 1.4 each.
Regardless of any other math involved, those two numbers should not work out to be equal to each other.
Now, I may not be a programmer, but I think I can say with 100% certainty that there is something plainly wrong with at least one part of the coding for Double Heatsinks.
Can anyone else verify this?
Edited by Spirit of the Wolf, 04 December 2012 - 10:19 PM.
