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[Marthe Pryde]

How exactly does map/ambient temperature affect heat dissipation? Do maps simply add or subtract a fixed number of heat-units/second? does it negate a fixed number of heatsinks?

has the actual "Formula" for computing the 'heat dissipation / second" given the map temperature and no. of heat sinks been revealed or figured out somewhere?

Edited by Marthe Pryde, 23 December 2013 - 12:43 AM.

[stjobe]

google "site:mwomercs.com ambient heat" and you'll get some old posts trying to figure it out, e.g
http://mwomercs.com/...garth-sighting/ and http://mwomercs.com/...w-do-they-work/, but I don't think PGI has ever explained the actual formula.

[D A T A]

they just suck, they wanted to make it feel like mw2, when the computer voice told you the ambient temperature.

in mw4 the system was much better, we had the heat efficency multiplier. For example, in the desert missions of MechWarrior 4 vengeance the heat efficiency multiplier was 0.7 so if my heat eff was 1.3, in order to know my heat eff in that map i only had to multiply 1.3 x 0.7 = 0.91
in lunar maps was 1.3, so 1.3x1,3 = 1,69

[MeiSooHaityu]

The funny thing is, since it seems like heat disipation is requires atmosphere, HPG Manifold (anything with no atmosphere really) should have hardly any heat dissipation .

Really, I think all you would have is the heat transfer through the legs (from your feet through to the ground) and what little disipation you get from radiation stripping heat from the mech as it passes through and around the machine. Both would be VERY small.

I know why they don't do this, but that would be more accurate. Kind of glad they don't though, how fun would that be?

IL MECHWARRIOR, on 23 December 2013 - 02:22 AM, said:

they just suck, they wanted to make it feel like mw2, when the computer voice told you the ambient temperature.

I kind of miss that.

"Planet: Twycross
Ambient Temperature: 31.25 Degrees
Local Time is: 21:35 GST
All Systems Nominal"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgojYKuYrd4