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[Grizley]

So, it seems we have two options for coolant flush. 15%, 20% and 35%.

They are billed as equal, but they're not.

Lets take a look at why.

Lets say your mech is at 100 heat, you use a small coolant flush and you're at 85 heat. If you follow that up with a medium coolant flush, your new heat is 85*.8 or 68.

Now looking at the same mech who is at 100 heat and uses a large coolant flush, they're now at 65% heat.

Is it hugely off? Nope, but don't try to call it equal. I know your developers wouldn't agree with 68==65.

This is something to watch in future modules too, since the larger the numbers the larger the discrepancy is.

Looking at say a 50% flush twice or a 100% flush once the difference would be a mech at 25 heat vs a mech at 0.

[Hammerfinn]

Before it's locked, Paul clarified: it's % of MAX HEAT, not CURRENT HEAT.

[w00tzor]

Math fail.

[Grizley]

From Pauls post it says it's based on how many heat sinks you have. Which makes sense that flushing coolant from 20 heat sinks has more of an effect than flushing from 10. I don't see anything about it being a percentage of max heat though.

[w00tzor]

Grizley, on 06 March 2013 - 04:56 PM, said:

Which doesn't make any difference unless you use it at such a low heat that you end up hitting the floor when you should be below zero.

If it makes you feel better replace the words current heat of 100 with max heat of 100, the numbers don't change.

% is of MAX heat, not current heat. if your MAX heat is 100 and you use a small coolant flush you'll dissipate 15% of heat, if you use a medium flush you'll dissipate a 20% heat. Guess what if you use small and medium flush together? 35% heat.

So, assuming 15+20=35 and 35=35 you're wrong.

[Grizley]

Pauls post said this...

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[color=#959595]CB Coolant Flush Tier 1 = 15% cooling of TOTAL heat on your Mech.[/color]
[color=#959595]CB Coolant Flush Tier 2 = 20% cooling of TOTAL heat on your Mech.[/color]
[color=#959595]TOTAL cooling of your Mech is 35%.[/color]

[color=#959595]MC Coolant Flush = 35% cooling of TOTAL heat on your Mech.[/color]
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[color=#959595]If by TOTAL he means MAX, sure. If by TOTAL he means current total, then no.[/color]
[color=#959595]There are other concerns around the 2 slot, 2 shot vs 1 slot one shot too. If you're one under cap, fire 6 PPCs and can burn a flush to instantly go to 85% of cap then the 2 slots are more exploitable by things like the 4 PPC bugs, or 6 PPC Stalkers. That difference is lost if heat is tracked past the shutdown cap of course. Also if there is a time involved, like 3 seconds to flush and you can't do both small and medium at the same time then the 1 slot 1 shot pulls ahead.[/color]