Brandarr Gunnarson, on 14 July 2016 - 02:14 AM, said:
What would this break? How would it hurt the game?
As far as I can see, all it would do would make the Summoner viable. It certainly wouldn't threaten the Timber Wolf's superiority. It also wouldn't it outshine the Hellbringer!
I've been trying to play my Summoner again and ES is all this 'Mech really needs!
Because it's stupid to pick & choose mechs to bend the rules for, and with the Summoner obviously being an Omnimech it's bound by Omnimech construction rules. If we're going to bend the rules, then it needs to be consistent or else it's crap.
How about instead we make Ferro Fibrous armor not be objectively inferior to Endo Steel structure. Something like allowing more max armor with Ferro Fibrous would be far more interesting (as well as make reasonable sense) and actually promote players choosing FF over ES (or choosing FF locked omnimechs over ES locked omnimechs) instead of this "no ES no pick" mentality that is honestly pretty justified because FF is so bad.
If
literally nothing else was an option and upgrades were pretty much left as is and the Summoner were to get at least a small buff, then
maybe the Summoner (and the Mad Dog too I guess) could have Endo Steel swapped out with Ferro Fibrous, but that's a really lame way of handling it.
Edited by Pjwned, 14 July 2016 - 05:28 AM.