I have tried, many times, to write entirely constructive suggestion posts. They go ignored, along with the thousands of others in this forum section. If you don't like the tone of my post, ask yourself why he decided to respond to this one and not the thousands of other posts, from me, you, and others, about this topic.
Finally, calling someone's idea stupid is not insulting that person.[END EDIT]
Some may not have read the statement from Paul, To curb boating with high alphas... we are testing a system that induces a heat scale when firing multiples of the same weapon within a specific time frame. The more weapons fired of the same type, the higher the heat scale climbs.
I think this a hugely stupid reaction to PPC boating. It also doesn't affect jump-jet PPC mechs (Highlanders, CTF-3D, etc) because gravity brings them under cover.
In order for it to affect PPCs appreciably at all, it is going to have collateral damage which will adversely affect a number of mechs and popular builds which are not causing massive QQ or driving players away from the game. Here are a few:
- 6 ML Jenner and numerous other lights
- Hunchback 4P (like, any sane build for it)
- Several Awesomes
- Stalkers with multiple SRMs, LRMs, MLs, MPLs, SLs for side-weapons, you name it
- Quad AC/2 Jagermech (already very limited by heat)
- DRG-FLAME (common to run 4 ML, MPL, or LL)
- CN9-AL
- 4/5ths of CDAs if using MLs or similar
- AS7-D
- AS7-RS
- CPLT-A1, CPLT-C4 (almost everything you'd want to use them for)
- COM-TDK
- HGN-733
Another fine example of how unbelievably foolish PGI can be! If they approach it this way, they must either cripple 50 common, reasonable builds in order to nerf PPC/ERPPC boats, while still not affecting the jump-jet ones; or not do enough, but gimp all those other mechs/builds a little more anyway.
http://mwomercs.com/...07#entry2355607
I should have just made my entire post in 48 points font but that wouldn't sufficiently express my outrage.
Edited by Niko Snow, 24 May 2013 - 05:36 PM.