Brandarr Gunnarson, on 10 December 2015 - 07:53 PM, said:
That said, I would be very much in favor of some further tech changes.
#1:
I'd like to see standard armor and structure more durable than FF or ES
#2:
This one is a little out there. I'd reduce the crit space for IS endo-steel and ferro-fibrous to 10.
#3:
I'd like to see certain Omnimechs revisited for their equipment. For example, that Summoner; no amount of quirking seems to compensate for no ES. Love the maneuverability, locked JJs fine. Standard structure?! Ack, no weight for stuff!
#4:
All lasers returned to their original damage curves, with slight further tweaks to Clan heat generation (that is, I want Clans to run even a bit hotter but with still slightly more dissipation; I don't think the changes went quite far enough).
Other changes I'd like to see are across techlines.
While i agree with almost everything you are saying, i disagree that the choices Omnimechs currently get (hardpoint swapping) are anything like as valuable as being able to fine tune engine size, having dynamic endo and ferro crit placement and being able to select minimum numbers of DHS, largely because the hardpoint inflation given to Battlemechs means they often don't NEED more hardpoints - see the 8E Hunchie for example, how would Omnitech even help that mech?
Given no change to that paradigm i am certain that Omnis will be removed from any kind of competitive use by the time we get a few more IICs, which i am sure wont take very long. I already think that the Orion is going to be arguably better than the Timberwolf (certainly at ballistic builds), and its got crap hardpoints.
Edited by Widowmaker1981, 11 December 2015 - 01:39 AM.