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[Pz_DC]

Hi guys'n'girls. Yesterday I was playing with my DRG-1N loadout - just want to fill all awailable slots and waste all available weight. And suddenly asked myself a question "why this is so hard to do?" - so I strip all weapons, engine and so on, same time max'ed armor and here is the core of the problem! Now look at this:

SPD-5D
30 max
FF+ES 7.4
ES 8.19
FF 8.9
STD 9.6

AWS-8T
80 max
FF+ES 17.8
ES 19.5
FF 21.8
STD 23.5

DRG-1C
60 max
FF+SS 14.3
ES 15.6
FF 17.3
STD 18.6

Now lets say that there are no thing lighter then 0.5 ton. What we can do with all those 0.3, 0.19 (!!!) etc ?! Strip some armor - yeah, simple solution, but problem is "why this ever happend?" I dont think there is someting more to say about it, so im done, thx all.

P.S. Sorry if I missed same theme somewhere around.

Edited by MGA121285, 05 April 2013 - 01:06 AM.

[blinkin]

the partial tonnages are for armor. i think these amounts were put into place so that a mech with ferro armor could fill up and break even (untested).

the base mech frame without any armor or equipment is 10% of the mech weight or 5% if the mech uses endosteel. so i think you can also end up with odd tonnages from using endosteel on mechs that have weight value that is not a multiple of 10.

[DemonRaziel]

Weight of the ES structure is always rounded up to the nearest increment of .5.
The total armor weight is based on total amount of armor a 'Mech can equip; which in turn is based on the maximum tonnage of the 'Mech. A single ton of standard armor gives you 32 pts. of armor (16 pts. in TT), FF armor increases the armor points per ton by 12% (to 35.84 pts / ton). This is where the partials come from. Usually, to be able to fully utilize your 'Mech's "weight capacity", you must sacrifice some armor.

[MasterErrant]

in case you havn't spotted it they changed almost everything in stupid ways. large engines are heavire small emginse (And thus light mechs) are favourable balanced heat sinks were destroyed the heat scale was warped... none of these changes made sense for a mature system previously tested in multiple successfull games....