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[wanderer]

What's hilarious is that OP doesn't realize that it isn't just flamers that get hardmounted, depending on the Omni.

Basically, ANY weapon or gear could have been. One of the Inner Sphere's Omnis, the Avatar has two medium lasers perm-hardwired to the chassis. Should we make all medium lasers on all 'Mechs locked to the chassis cause of that?

[Water Bear]

I'm in the big crowd of people who aren't sure why you'd do this.

Fixed equipment is one of the ways in which clans are made slightly less good in order to balance them with the IS. Doing the same thing to IS mechs would completely defeat the purpose.

It reminds me of these "clan quirk" threads. Only bad clan mechs could be in the running for quirks, as one of the purposes of quirks (and honestly, probably the major purpose) was to...balance the clans and IS by giving the IS more power.

Dear OP: Please explain why you would do this. Justification seriously needed.

[Ambuscade]

Fix the equipment, not fix the equipment to every mech.

Flamers:
Minimal Damage, powerful heat inducing capabilities (every weapon in the game outranges it and does better damage). Heat transfer is the only unique quality it has (barring introduction of inferno munitions). That should be its niche.

P.S. Flamers cannot stun lock you because of the 90% heat cap. Furthermore, their current ability to blind the target (considered stun locking also) is being removed. These facts will likely never change: any balancing will have to work around them.

Jump Jets:
Fix jump jets so they grant great mobility, but make it very hard to accurately fire throughout the entirety of the jump.

Regards Mechwarriors,
Ambuscade

[Vassago Rain]

No.

[Vassago Rain]

I told you so...

[Anakha]

Flamers I don't care either way but I think that everything should be the same across the board, either all fixed or all removable.

As for Jump Jets I think any mech clan or IS should be able to add or remove any number of jump jets with the horrible way JJ's work in this game right now.

IF jump jets worked good I would say they should be an upgrade option and all or none for every game, IS and clan. Again every mech should be balanced the same with regards to JJ's. Not some get removeable and some fixed.

[RedDevil]

A bunch of flamers in here already. LoL