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[Monkey Lover]

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Clan ER-Micro Laser
- Heat Penalty ID changed to 14 (from 10)
- Minimum Heat Penalty Level increased to 11 (from 9)
- Heat reduced to 1.15 (from 1.35)

Clan Micro Pulse Laser
- Weapon Heat Penalty ID changed to 14 (from 10)
- Heat Penalty Level increased to 11 (from 9)
- Heat reduced to 1.2 (from 1.35)

Just tried 14 of these and im still getting ghost heat after 10.

[Mister Maf]

There needs to be a pinned thread about this if they aren't going to clarify their language.

Ghost heat functions by tying weapon systems that stack for ghost heat into groups. The group for clan ER medium lasers is group 10. Micro pulse and ER micros, which were also in group 10, have now been moved to group 14, which was unoccupied. Group 14 is therefore is now exclusive to these two weapons, so only micro pulse lasers and ER micro lasers will trigger ghost heat with each other, instead of also triggering it with ER medium lasers. The threshold for number of these lasers fired to trigger ghost heat ("heat penalty level") was changed to 11, so you can safely fire up to 10 of them without triggering ghost heat, while it will kick in at the 11th laser.

Does that make more sense?

Edited by Mister Maf, 22 September 2018 - 05:19 PM.

[Monkey Lover]

Mister Maf, on 22 September 2018 - 05:06 PM, said:

There needs to be a pinned thread about this if they aren't going to clarify their language.

Ghost heat functions by tying weapon systems that stack for ghost heat into groups. The group for clan ER medium lasers is group 10. Micro pulse and ER micros were moved to group 14, which was unoccupied, and therefore is now exclusive to these two weapons. Now only micro pulse lasers and ER micro lasers will trigger ghost heat with each other, instead of also triggering it with ER medium lasers. The threshold for number of lasers fired to trigger ghost heat remains unchanged.

Ahh i see thank you Mister Maf.

[Mister Maf]

Monkey Lover, on 22 September 2018 - 05:08 PM, said:

Ahh i see thank you Mister Maf.

I edited in a correction to my original post — the threshold for number of lasers was in fact raised to 11, so you can now fire up to 10 pulse/ER micro lasers at once. But the main change was unlinking them from ER medium lasers.

[D V Devnull]

Mister Maf, on 22 September 2018 - 06:02 PM, said:

I edited in a correction to my original post — the threshold for number of lasers was in fact raised to 11, so you can now fire up to 10 pulse/ER micro lasers at once. But the main change was unlinking them from ER medium lasers.

Even worse, it used to be that you could only fire 8 of the Micro series before Ghost Heat would happen. So this is an improvement that the limit was upped to 10 at one time.

~D. V. "just making note of the old value for comparison" Devnull