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[Shae Starfyre]

I just wonder if it has been thought up by development to consider where a heat sink is in relationship to a weapon mount and it's effectiveness to dissapate heat from that weapon?

Then consider that instead of one global heat proficiency gauge, each weapon has it's own gauge and the global becomes an average gauge, as heat sink placement adjusts the proficiency.

Then, when you build your mechs, the placement of weapons and heat sinks becomes an important factor in mech design.

This may even prevent boating or at least make it more realistic in the sense of overheating those sinks.

This would cause a mech designer to carefully place heat sinks precluding the use of that space for other things, to achieve a viable build.

Having 3 ppc in a location that can only hold a limited number of adjacent sinks, where a portion of the heat is then disappated by a percentage to heat sinks further way, degrading their effectiveness, would cause a condition to remove one of the PPC.

An example would be the Highlander (Heavy Metal) with a Gauss and 2 PPC (this may not be a good example, but the double-heat sink placement shows the limitations in designing this).

If this idea is implemented, in order to absorb the right amount of heat, 4 Double-Heat Sinks would need to be placed in the left torso which would preclude the ability to mount AMS and 2 Missiles. And, the heat is pretty good considering.

If I place some missiles there, and place the heat sinks furth away, the disppation efficiency effectiveness would be reduced by 20% per structual location transversed (CT would be 20% less effective, right torso, 40% as effective).

It can be done, but then your global cooling efficiency would be more in the 40% range instead of 60, making this build less likely, unless the pilot want to concentrate only on 2 PPC and a Guass and have no other weapon capabilities.

Again, this is just an example, and the numbers are just examples as well.

[Neolisk]

Aphoticus, on 05 June 2013 - 11:20 AM, said:

I just wonder if it has been thought up by development to consider where a heat sink is in relationship to a weapon mount and it's effectiveness to dissapate heat from that weapon?

Interesting suggestion. Problem is that it would make normal builds worse, as now they have some cooling capacity taken away.

Besides, boaters would probably not care to stand in shutdown for a couple extra seconds.