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Please someone correct me and tell me there is going to be true mediums by the time the game launches. So I will have be proved totally wrong in refusing to get excited!!!!!!!!!!
Nathan
Edit-- As someone pointed out, I forgot to mention the third medium the Cicada. So we have two lame wannabe heavys (yes, the Centurion is better then the Hunchback but still it is still the equivalent of a comparison between a Fiat vs a Volga) & the wannabe Light.
Not one of these is a "medium" in anything but tonnage. They have none of the overall usefulness expected for the variety of missions a medium lance is expected to be able to carry out. That is the whole & only point I am trying to make, not a comparison of what each individual mech is capable of in one specific area of operations. But within the Entire context of what missions you are likely to need to complete, these three are not up to the task.
2nd Edit-- I do not know what the in-game money system will be, so I will be using the TT/RPG rule system in this example. A lot of people have been commenting on the MechLab, and how "all" you need to do is do an engine swap for better speed. Here is the breakdown of that, a 250 engine costs 1,666,667 C-Bills, a Hunchback costs 3,467,875 C-Bills while a Centurion costs 3,491,500. So using the argument that one can "just" reconfigure the engine is CRAP. It costs half the price of the whole mech, while also failing to factor in the difficulty of getting it done. It takes a Mech Factory to do this level of modification, there is less the 20 factory worlds per realm. Or how do you get transportation there? Very few worlds are located anywhere near a border, since all of them were destroyed during the Succession Wars. Only the factory worlds deep in the realms survived the past 200 years of conflicts.
Edited by zuul88, 03 June 2012 - 04:47 PM.
