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[Dino Might]

I am more than willing to suspend disbelief and accept space magic. Heck - I enjoy doing that! I read mostly science fiction, both good and bad. What I won't do is accept some nebulous "technology will make it possible," that tries to cherry pick aspects of reality to create an overly complex justification.

I really liked the movie "Edge of Tomorrow." Plot: the aliens can control time. How? They just can - deal with it.
No hokey, "let's make up this chemical called metaclorians that has some special property to control the higgs boson, alter gravity to bend time and space to blah blah blah." The movie was fantastic in that - they control time, here's what they do with that power, let's go fight it. The more detail put into justifying a questionable plot device, the less I like it.

[MeiSooHaityu]

They could add a drop compensator I suppose (hey no skin off my back), but I sure as heck ain't spending 3 mil C-Bills on one.

I'd rather run a couple or few drops with an A/C20 and become familiar with it's characteristics. It's a heck of a lit cheaper. Besides, I already have 2 reticules and 6 fire group indicators crammed in the middle of my view, another reticule would make things a bit cluttered for my taste.

[TercieI]

You want auto aim too? It's no different than leading a target at range. It requires and rewards skill, which is a good thing.

[Almond Brown]

One could make a case that the AC20 is a slug and not shot from a Rifled barrel. At roughly 285 pounds each, gravity should and does have quite an effect on an object that size, even when propelled by a gas based explosion method.

P.S. "Don't think MechWarrior. Find out!"

[Davegt27]

It’s called a Lead Computing Optical Sight

Without it you have a World War I type gun sight

One of the keys to victory in WWII was the gun sight in a P51 aircraft (that type of sight anyway)

To go to the next gen would be radar ranging like the F86f (the one with bulbous nose)

Then after that is the range and angle tracking provided be a fire control radar sys (that means radar lock-on gives you bullet drop, aero compensation)


to project are minds to the 31st century the gun would have gimbaled stabilization or maybe even some type of magnetic levitation bullet compensation to compensate for the movement of the Mech while walking

Fire control would be a multispectral beyond line of sight fire control system (multispectral would a combination of laser, radar, heat and maybe even seismic and sound)

[Lugh]

BigBenn, on 29 July 2015 - 07:01 PM, said:

One would think that by 3050 AD, targeting computers would auto compensate for trajectory. By all the data it delivers I bet it does. LRM's auto compensate when then are fired. The velocity variations are penalty enough.

I vote to remove the uncorrected trajectory from ballistics. PPC's dont have a trajectory...

http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Lostech

You keep talking about Lostech man here's the why and the wherefor...

[Lugh]

Davegt27, on 30 July 2015 - 11:53 AM, said:

It’s called a Lead Computing Optical Sight

Without it you have a World War I type gun sight

One of the keys to victory in WWII was the gun sight in a P51 aircraft (that type of sight anyway)

To go to the next gen would be radar ranging like the F86f (the one with bulbous nose)

Then after that is the range and angle tracking provided be a fire control radar sys (that means radar lock-on gives you bullet drop, aero compensation)


to project are minds to the 31st century the gun would have gimbaled stabilization or maybe even some type of magnetic levitation bullet compensation to compensate for the movement of the Mech while walking

Fire control would be a multispectral beyond line of sight fire control system (multispectral would a combination of laser, radar, heat and maybe even seismic and sound)

Given the level of lostech you describe Mechwarriors would love to have that kind of targeting. However, they have the bare bones because they can barely keep the fusion engines from failing outright on any given day. Let alone all the fancy computer hoooey you are talking about...


Years and years of Dark Ages style declining tech only stopped around 3028...And while tech is now on the upswing, it hasn't wholly recovered it's footing thanks to religious zeolotry. Ala 21st century America.

[DjPush]

Yes! Please remove all things that require a skill for pilots to develope. They should make all weapons like streaks! Incuding lasers! I should be able to fire my weapons in any direction and have them hit my locked target.

https://youtu.be/1Pb1Voc85ac

Edited by DjPush, 30 July 2015 - 12:36 PM.

[Davegt27]

I guess I should not bring up the Holographic HUD we went to see in 1981

[Andi Nagasia]

is there really a Need for this?
cant people just learn to well gauge distance?
and at worse use kentucky windage to dial it all in?