Koniving, on 06 April 2015 - 07:51 PM, said:
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The issue is PGI's lack of realizing something very simple from the BT universe. All Battlemechs feature what the Omnimechs call Fixed Equipment.
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The problem isn't that endo/ferro is locked. It's that Endo is NOT locked when it should be for the Inner Sphere.
I understand all this.
The problem is that this is a game design issue, not a lore issue. If you arbitrarily restrict Endo, you make mechs without it simply worse. There's no balance to this: excepting a couple 100t builds, all mechs are flat out improved by Endosteel.
If they left endo locked on IS mechs, those without itbwould be (like our current clan mechs without it) simply bad in comparison.
How we'd like things to be in a perfect world doesn't really matter. We have the game we have. IS isn't going to lose ES