Lynx7725, on 15 March 2015 - 08:32 PM, said:
KraftySOT: Design quirks are fairly new and aren't even written into the TROs fully, so I consider that's a bit reaching. I know, I know, I want the mechs to all have a reasonable utility in game also, but let's face it, the original source material never mandated any sort of sizing, and given the wide variety of battlemech manufacturers, the devs have a lot of room to play with.
Sadly, it IS original source material because its source material put out by the people who own the ability to do that. So its canon. It hasnt been retroactively applied to everything because theres of course the matter of who owns alot of those TROs, and what has to be done to print them again.
However in Megamek, theyve been pretty much all applied. And they existed before PGI made MWO or was even planning on making MWO so theres no legitimate reason you cant either use those, use the spirit of those, or make up your own, on a mech by mech basis lore wise, quirks for them. Which they said theyd do after pew pew quirks, theyd do more inventive ones.
Still waiting on that.
But you have a plethora of canon source material to draw from, that PGI and most people (even some Btech players) dont know exist.
Theres also alot of stuff NOT on Sarna, and Sarna seems to be pretty well accepted as a source for all things 'legit' but you have your variance of opinion there.
Even in the TROs however, the originals, they do mention size, shape, have pictures of those sizes and talk about how some mechs are simply better or worse based on their size and manufacture.
That they eventually put rules to that, should be no surprise. The lore was really vague in alot of TROs and it didnt materialize in the TT for many years.
And theres no reason PGI cant look at that chart, and apply some willy nilly to mechs, and Paul can proclaim balance.
The size rules exist.
Our size rules are based on a number of factors but apparently the main one is "collisions". Which im still trying to figure out.
Edited by KraftySOT, 15 March 2015 - 08:38 PM.