ShadowbaneX, on 23 December 2014 - 11:12 PM, said:
I think one of the big things that CBT did that MWO does not, is that your first 10 heat sinks weigh nothing. The limitation that outside engine heat sinks required was space, not tonnage. In MWO you have to pay tonnage for those fewer heat sinks and in the case of something like an urbanmech, that means 6-8 tons, which isn't feasible...or do they factor that in with the lack of a gyro? I can't remember.
The method used is different but the formula is the same. In BT the first 10 heatsinks requiring no tons had their weight paid for by the engine. With some super low rating engines this meant that they got 10 heatsinks for less than 10 tons, the Urban Mech was one of these designs.
In MWO the weight of the engines are reduced for the engines that require external heatsinks to be valid. This is the reason for the full ton increase in weight when you go from a 245 STD rating engine to a 250 STD rating engine, the engine is eating another heatsink into itself and getting one ton fatter.
Implementing the sub-100 rating engines into MWO would require the creation of engines with a negative tonnage due to this method.
Also, if you go ahead and strip your mech of everything in MWO, including armor, then you'll notice that the base weight of the frame is only accounting for the internal structure. Components that should have weight independently like the Gyro are still mounted in your mech but not reflected in the weight. The weight of these components have been rolled into the engine weight.
In the end once you make up a valid build it will weigh the same and take the same crit spaces in MWO as it would in the TT. The one Core Rule they have not been willing to compromise on is changing weight and crit costs/formulas as that would break stock builds. They still use the same formula and get the same answer, they just solve the formula in a different order.
111
