Scratx, on 08 October 2014 - 06:10 PM, said:
I'm going to assume mine is one of those you blatantly ignored.
Okay.
Here's the fun bit. You are suggesting sized hardpoints, just a different kind of them. They don't actually stop you from mounting big guns in "small" mounts, but it nerfs them if you do. In this way, it passes the sniff test of "Is this going to invalidate a lot of builds?". It won't invalidate them, but it may adversely affect non-problematic builds just the same.
Anyway, I am not going to argue about Catapult K2's "Machinegun" hardpoints.
I am simply going to point to the Nova Prime as one of the reasons why this approach is flawed. I quoted it in my ignored post, in fact. Also the Warhawk, Dire Wolf and a lot of builds whose stock or not-very-different-from-stock builds are considered problematic.
Does this proposal affect them? You can't size the hardpoints such that you're nerfing the stock build. That's ridiculous. How are you going to nerf 12 ERMLs? They're already about as small and light as weapons go. And the Warhawk's hardpoints? Quad ERLL, without ghost heat, would be downright nasty on a heatsink boat like that. Dire Wolf? Same, except with more guns.
Sigh. I'm starting to lose count on how many times I pointed this out, and nobody's yet given a solution that isn't ridiculous.
You can keep pretending this problem doesn't exist, or you can own up to the fact it does and actually, honestly, try to come up with some way of dealing with it that isn't ridiculous like arbitrarily telling the Nova alone that NOPE, you can't actually fire more than 6 lasers or something like that.
You are persistant, so i will say you should read more of this thread where I suggest ghost heat can be substituted with duration changes for ML and the like. ML boats etc could be easily throttled WITHOUT having to force them into overheat/shutdown to do so. PLease stop making presumptions that everything is blanket coverage and black and white. There is immense diversity in Battletech weapons, there is no one size fits all to this issue, but a system like this comes pretty close to accomodating this diversity without making crazy alphaboats the high king of the land.