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[Greyhart]

It occurs to me what the skill tree is all about is increasing the efficiency of a mech beyond base.

instead of conceptualising the skills as nodes to be purchased with points consider it as a percentage increase.

Now think of each area as a dial. so one for speed, one for cooldown etc etc.

Each of the dials are linked if one goes up another has to go down.

So to increase speed by 10% you have to decrease cooldown by 10%.

equal distribution would see the dials half way up on all of them.

I think it's an interesting thought about how you consider the skill system to be.

[Kaeb Odellas]

I've always thought it would be interesting if we could "tune" our mechs like race cars.

XP would be used to unlock sliders for each of our mech's stats. Increasing acceleration reduces turn rate. Increasing heat dissipation reduces heat capacity. That sort of thing.

[Greyhart]

Kaeb Odellas, on 21 February 2017 - 12:56 PM, said:

I've always thought it would be interesting if we could "tune" our mechs like race cars.

XP would be used to unlock sliders for each of our mech's stats. Increasing acceleration reduces turn rate. Increasing heat dissipation reduces heat capacity. That sort of thing.

yeah something like that too would be interesting.

You could unlock the slider with c-bills (buying your tech specialist in the area) and then spend XP to move the slider by increments (XP becoming an equivelent to time spent by the tech on adjusting the mech).

it would be a really good way to balance things

[Greyhart]

to take this further you could do all sorts of combination.

you could have sliders of X against Y

Or you could have a triangle thing to balance 3 factors.

Or you could just have a dial that you increase with a limited number of points to distribute over the dials.

Thinking about it the idea of a skill tree with nodes is limiting.

[cazidin]

Don't touch that dial!