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[Anachronda]

I'm not talking about watching your gauge and controlling your shots. I'm talking about when you first build a mech. As far as that goes I usually take a new build into the testing grounds or something and watch how much the meter goes up when firing different combinations of weapons. In a match, I mostly go by feel - you can kind of get a feel for how your meter will react over time using a mech.

No, what I am talking about is in planning and building a mech. The problem I see is the units of measurement are not consistent. Smurfy and the mechlab have a "heat efficiency" listed. Smurfy uses a percentage and the mechlab uses a floating point number whose origin I have not determined. The in-game meter uses a percentage gauge to show how much heat you have built, and every weapon shows a certain number of "points" of heat. I think the cool shot description also talks about points. Meanwhile quirks and efficiencies modify the heat ceiling, build-up, and dissipation of heat.

I am thinking the points are something from tabletop, which is fine. It makes sense to me to have a weapon generate a certain number of points of heat, then have heat sinks dissipate a certain number of points of heat per second. Double heat sinks in this game dissipate more, and doubles internal to the engine dissipate even more.

What I am trying to figure out here is the relation all these disparate numbers have to one another, since there obviously is one, and how I could reasonably plan so that my weapons generate x amount of heat but it dissipates in x amount of time. As things are I am mostly going by feel, memory of how weapons and builds tend to react, and kind of looking at the heat efficiency numbers. What I would like to be able to do is the math behind it. I think new players are likely to be confused as well and heat management is very important to this game. Someone has a formula and I would love to see it.

Edited by Anachronda, 05 January 2016 - 06:24 PM.

[Leone]

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Amaris the Usurper, on 19 November 2012 - 11:31 AM, said:

Effects of Throttle Setting, Environment, and Unlocks

[color=#959595]Before proceeding, it is useful to introduce the idea of [/color]equivalent heat sinks[color=#959595] [/color](EHS)[color=#959595]. This is my own term, but the idea is an extremely useful one, so bear with me. In a nutshell, this is the effective number of SHS that a given mech has. For a mech with DHS,[/color]

[number of EHS] = 2*[number of DHS included]+1.4*[number of DHS added][color=#959595].[/color]

[color=#959595]Obviously, the rate of heat dissipation (with other effects absent) is then[/color]

[dissipation rate] = 0.1*[number of EHS][color=#959595].[/color]

[color=#959595]Furthermore, the heat threshold is given by[/color]

[heat threshold] = 30+[number of EHS][color=#959595].[/color]

[color=#959595]If throttle, environmental, and Pilot Lab effects are included, these are changed to[/color]

[dissipation rate] = 0.1*([number of EHS]*[Coolrun modifier]-2*abs([throttle setting])-[map heat])

[color=#959595]and[/color]

[heat threshold] = 30+[number of EHS]*[Heat Containment modifier]-2*abs([throttle setting])-[map heat][color=#959595],[/color]

[color=#959595]where[/color]

• [Coolrun modifier] is 1, 1.075, or 1.15, as appropriate;
  
• [Heat Containment modifier] is 1, 1.1, or 1.2, as appropriate (see the Comments section below);
  
• abs is the absolute value operator;
  
• [throttle setting] varies between -1 (full reverse) and 1 (full forward).

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~Leone.

Edited by Leone, 06 January 2016 - 03:08 AM.