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[XSerjo]

Narcissistic Martyr, on 27 June 2013 - 10:27 AM, said:

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The only light that could make money would be a Raven hero with more (or bigger) missile hardpoints and ECM. Or maybe an ECM raven with JJ.

What about ECM Jenner? =) That would be awesome.

[DTheSleepless]

Ghost Badger, on 27 June 2013 - 07:19 AM, said:

I'm guessing it has to do with making a Hero light balanced is more difficult.

With the larger 'mechs there's more room to introduce a slightly "lesser" hero variant without going overboard, because with so much tonnage and hardpoints, it's easy to take a couple things away.

How do you make a Hero light less favorable to balance out the Hero bonuses without making it LAUGHABLY BAD. See Death's Knell.

If you make it better, you get people instantly crying pay-to-win, because lights are already challenging to play, and any light with a clear advantage will INSTANTLY be snapped up by most light pilots. See Raven 3L.

I'm not saying it's impossible...but it's easier for PGI to do it with other 'mechs...so they have been.

Just a theory.

The TDK is grossly underrated. As a lifelong Commando pilot, the best thing about the Commando (and especially the TDK) is the fact that absolutely no one takes you seriously. It's kind of a silly camouflage, but half the time, no one pays any attention to my TDK. The result is that I wind up dumping a ridiculous amount of ML fire into enemy mechs while they worry about the big boys.

Hero lights can and should be done. That the TDK is the only one is unfair to those of us that like to live fast and die young.

[Khanahar]

The list is actually more evened up if you remember that the CDA is an oversized light and the DRG is an oversized medium.

But some hero light/mediums (TBT please) would be great.

[armyof1]

The answer to why there are not more Light Hero mechs is easy really. There are not as many people interested in Lights compared to Heavies/Assaults so fewer would be sold, mainly due to the whole bigger and better meta we have been running for a long time now. And also due to the tonnage cost in MC increases with weight, a Light Hero would cost a lot less than the big guys. So PGI want to maximize the profit of course, and keep throwing out big and heavy Hero mechs and profit.

Edited by armyof1, 03 July 2013 - 07:32 AM.

[SMDMadCow]

I foresee a hero Treb or BJ next month if not Orion.

[armyof1]

SMDMadCow, on 03 July 2013 - 07:45 AM, said:

I foresee a hero Treb or BJ next month if not Orion.

There's just one good reason they pushed back the Orion, they're totally going to make and release a Hero version 2 weeks before CBill versions and profit big-time. They just realised too late how popular the Orion would be.