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[Vailin]

Right now the current ammo use sucks in MWO since it uses ammo from right side to left side. This means ammo type guns don't use ammo equally throughout the mech and hurts mechs that decide to divide the same guns on both sides.

How will this work?
Its simple there should be a button added called "Edit ammo order" once you click that it brings up the mech details, from there simply dragging the ammo to the appropriate weapon will create an arrow pointing from the ammo to the gun indicating that they are connected and that the gun will use the selected ammo first. From there the user can drag the next ammo to the already selected ammo to connect it so that once the 1st ammo is depleted it moves onto that one. Keep in mind you will need to connect the appropriate ammo to the appropriate gun.

What happens if the user chooses not to connect ammo to guns/forgets about it?
Simple the mech will use the default ammo use order of right side to left side.

Why do we need this feature?
To make it more convenient for mechs that have a lot of hard points that use ammo. How many times have you run out of ammo because your left torso got destroyed? even though you split ammo evenly on both sides and were using the same guns at the same time?

Seriously why hasn't this been added already?


Note:Now this topic might be similar to Fire and Salt's Ammo use order topic. However it is very different since his topic focuses on the a part of the mech (right torso, left etc.) and not dragging ammo itself specifically to a weapon.