Kosmaj, on 01 July 2015 - 05:48 AM, said:
Yes you are right if this would be tabletop. And yes i should precise what i mean is. At the dawn of arrival in MWO Clan mechs they were made less upgradeable then IS to counter their supremacy, but what we get right now is fully upgradeable clan mech in which you can change engine, structure, armor. Russ said in 2013 in town hall if you listen closely that they will not blend those two systems in game.
I can accept that perhaps you didn't understand what Russ said due to language barriers, but Russ was quite clear. He said at launch and for the forseeable future there'd be no mixtech - even then he acknowledged that it may come some day. In the last town hall meeting, he restated that he wants to keep IS and Clan separate still.
Mixtech, in this context, has nothing to do with battlemech vs. omnimech, or the construction systems. What it means is IS using IS mechs with IS equipment, Clan using Clan mechs with Clan equipment.
The IIC mechs
ARE CLAN MECHS. They are not IS mechs. They are using Clan equipment. They are Battlemechs, though, not Omnimechs, so they use Battlemech construction rules: No omnipods, unlocked engines and upgrades. The IIC mechs
are in no sense mixtech. Remember, the IIC mechs, being Battlemechs and not Omnimechs, do not have swapable omnipods.
And I say this as a godless heathen
who wants mixtech. (please, i get lots of people object strongly to that, I don't care; I'm not saying it's what should be, just what I'd personally like, and that it's irrelevant for the thread anyways so we don't need to debate it)