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[Artgathan]

I was browsing Sarna, and I came across the following:

http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Crab The CRB-27 uses a 250 STD engine and runs at 86.4 km/h.

My Centurion in MW:O uses a 250 STD engine and runs at 81.0 kph. This prompted some deeper digging.

From the Kintaro's page (http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Kintaro) the Kintaro should run at 86.4km/h with its stock 275 engine. But it doesn't - in MWO it runs at 81.0 km/h (speed tweak bumps it to 89.1).

Bizarrely, a Commando with a stock 150 engine runs at 97.2 km/h, which is what Sarna lists.

The question I'm asking then is this: why are some engines running at their BT levels, but others aren't? The system isn't even consistent - Highlanders (MWO: 48.6kph, BT: 54.0kph) run slower than BT with their stock engines, but Victors run at their correct speed (MWO: 64.8kph, BT: 64.8pkh) when Awesomes run slower (MWO: 48.6kph, BT: 54.0kph). The comparison of Awesome and Victor is more striking - they're the same tonnage!

Is there some explanation for this?

[Dirty Starfish]

Artgathan, on 19 September 2013 - 06:31 PM, said:

I was browsing Sarna, and I came across the following:

http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Crab The CRB-27 uses a 250 STD engine and runs at 86.4 km/h.

My Centurion in MW:O uses a 250 STD engine and runs at 81.0 kph. This prompted some deeper digging.

From the Kintaro's page (http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Kintaro) the Kintaro should run at 86.4km/h with its stock 275 engine. But it doesn't - in MWO it runs at 81.0 km/h (speed tweak bumps it to 89.1).

Bizarrely, a Commando with a stock 150 engine runs at 97.2 km/h, which is what Sarna lists.

The question I'm asking then is this: why are some engines running at their BT levels, but others aren't? The system isn't even consistent - Highlanders (MWO: 48.6kph, BT: 54.0kph) run slower than BT with their stock engines, but Victors run at their correct speed (MWO: 64.8kph, BT: 64.8pkh) when Awesomes run slower (MWO: 48.6kph, BT: 54.0kph). The comparison of Awesome and Victor is more striking - they're the same tonnage!

Is there some explanation for this?

WAT!!! MY HIGHLANDER SHOULD GO FASTER?!?!?!?! DO WANT

[Mahws]

In Battletech mechs don't move at kp/h, they have movement points. The speeds on Sarna are fluff, a mech that moves at 81kp/h in the lore will have the exact same amount of movement points as a mech that moves at 84kp/h.

The games system measures tonnage to engine rating to determine speed. Maybe in the future they'll tweak it for individual mechs so some go faster/slower, but as of now the fluff on how fast a mech goes is largely ignored.

[80sGlamRockSensation David Bowie]

On topic

Light mechs are speed capped at 150 until they "fix the net-code"



aka, never.

[Lootee]

This again ?

Mech walk speed in hexes = engine rating ÷ mech tonnage
Mech run speed in hexes = walk speed × 1.5

Run speed for mechs with odd numbered walk speeds are all fractions. How do you move an Atlas miniature 4.5 hexes on a game board? Leave it hanging halfway out? You can't so they rounded 4.5 up to 5 run speed.

MWO doesn't use a hex based map so no need to round. Multiply the run speed times 10.8kph to get the in-game numbers.

Edited by PanchoTortilla, 19 September 2013 - 09:40 PM.

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