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Mcchuggernaut, on 04 July 2016 - 02:35 PM, said:
Thanks for the explanation! Although if they are bothering with cannon then why have a mechlab where you can swap engines at all and break their 1.2 rule all the damn time? Sure, have the mech come with the cannon engine when you buy it. That makes a lot more sense than an engine cap, imo.
Wut?
I mean, besides Heroes and Champions, don't they all come with the canon stock engine for that variant?
I just don't think I understand what you are asking for/suggesting here.
Or are you saying "Why have canon stock builds at all, if the first thing we do 90% of the time is strip the 'mech and rebuild it from the ground up"?
Anyway, I like the engine caps because I think it gives the different 'mechs different characters. And since there is canon, and there are canon stock loadouts, might as well build the engine cap off of that.
The flaws in the system are the exceptions--which are likely necessary (and which you can find listed on the Quirks section of Smurfy's)--and the fact that quirks may not adequately make up for a low engine cap 'mech. I agree with whoever said the root problem is lack of root cause analysis.
