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[Dee Eight]

Constructive comments/discoveries/suggestions...

The speed tweak... adjust the benefit percentage upwards from 1.5% per node for mechs heavier than lights.

XP cost for SP...a thousand would be more fair I think, and the Cbill cost should be 50,000 (since this gives the folks who just sell caches unopened something to do with that cash). Also the re-skill option should actually be a refund then of 25,000 and 500XP as that keeps it consistent with the economy of mechs/weapons/equipment where they cost twice as much as what you sell them back for because you decided to go another way with the build/mech garage.

The expanded magazine size needs to be an option for the missile weapons too, and should be located at the bottom of the firepower sub-trees not the operations table. As it stands it says ballistic only but MGs are also ballistic and there's no modifier for them. Expanding the AMS and NARC magazine capacities also wouldn't be a bad thing either. This also prevents abuse because if you have many different magazine type weapons, you're not just getting expanded magazines for them all by buying one operations node for it. Currently for example, people who boat different classes of auto-cannons would get expanded magazines for them all (combining ACs and UACs).

The node branches need to work upwards or downwards...not just downwards as they currently go. I don't mind having to go thru a velocity node to get to a spread or anti-jam node for example, but I see no need to have to go thru repeated hard brake and kinetic burst nodes to get to all the speed tweak ones.

I am fine with the reduced health for smaller components however...the crits still seem to be scoring much too often and easily now. Did you adjust the percentage chances wrong on the PTS ?

I took the additional 15% UAC anti-jam on a dragon 5N (for 55% total) and went 74 shots on the testing grounds with only two jams. Is this correct or are the values not calculating correctly together ?

[Baulven]

I think lighter mechs should benefit more from speed tweak or the amount should stay the same for each weight class and adjusted the same. Lights have few advantages, keeping them zooming is something that should be encouraged.

Everything else looks like common sense options.