white0Fox, on 07 January 2017 - 07:23 AM, said:
(Sorry for my bad english)
Atlas 7S with AC/20, right ST open AC destroyd
Sleipnir with 4xUAC5, ST open one or both AC's destroyd
Warhammer with 2xAC10 ST open AC destryed
Why dont compares the Health of a Wepon to her own Weight and number of Slots ?
When i look at the Health per Slots, LPL are great and AC's are Trash...
Why have all Wepons and "Support and Utility Weapons" the same Health (10) ?
Mostly because it won't work.
Lasers deal their damage over time and their crits are also broken down in the same way. This means that lasers deal very close to their average crit stuff MOST of the time. It's not a coincidence that the mechs you list are all IS.
IS weapons are larger than their clan counterparts which means that Crit padding is a lot more effective. That's not "the problem" but it shows where it comes from.
The appropriate way would be to have health based on the number of slots because this is what determines how much crit damage is taken.
The next factor is weapon weight and on this one I might be wrong so take it with a grain of salt. Engines to my knowledge still don't take crit damage so XL engines don't "crit pad".
Large weapons + laser reliability in dealing crit damage + laser Meta (+ clan targeting computer crit bonuses for those that use them) = if your weapon is destroyed instantly the chances are that increasing it's health just isn't going to help much.
To use clan Vs IS as an example:
So in the case of an Atlas DDC, we put an AC 20 in the side torso which leaves 2 spaces. You can't crit pad with DHS as there's only 2 spaces left and the best you can do is put in an MG and leave one space empty. Use single heat sinks and you can fill both slots.
A clan 100 ton mech with a UAC AC20 in a side torso on the other hand, has an XL engine and can put in a UAC 20 and pad the remaining 2 slots with a 2-slot double heat sink. More can be hit than just the AC 20 so it lasts longer.
In this case, balancing on weight and crit slots doesn't work either because the ability to pad will make a difference to how long it takes the weapon to be destroyed because the damage has somewhere else to go.
Because Lasers are part of the "issue" this means that torso twist speed also makes a difference. Twisting away from lasers, preventing them from getting in sustained hits reaching their crit potential, makes these weapons last longer. This means engine size and twist speed quirks also make a difference to how long these weapons can survive.
It's genuinely not as simple as a lot of people seem to think and there's probably something I haven't thought about yet.
While a health buff is the only end answer, how to apply it can be done in different ways. Personally I'm in favour of the weapon health being quirked on mechs that need it because there's a lot that don't.
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