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[martian]

SirSmokes, on 20 November 2020 - 10:13 AM, said:

Like I said a build option

Yeah, good possibly for some specialized builds.

The primary advantage of X-Pulse lasers is that they would cost PGI nothing. Just a five minutes of Matt Newman's work copy-pasting Large Pulse Lasers file, editing values and saving again. Changing the colour of the new laser maybe.

[The pessimistic optimist]

martian, on 20 November 2020 - 10:16 AM, said:

Yeah, good possibly for some specialized builds.

The primary advantage of X-Pulse lasers is that they would cost PGI nothing. Just a five minutes of Matt Newman's work copy-pasting Large Pulse Lasers file, editing values and saving again. Changing the colour of the new laser maybe.

How hot would I make them well if you have X pulse on the max normal number you can do before ghost heat is just do able with some planing anymore with ghost heat shut down city. Not for boating and max is not ideal but doable.

[Y E O N N E]

VonBruinwald, on 20 November 2020 - 08:21 AM, said:

Only if you lack hardpoints, if you got the hardpoint an extra LL is a better option, I can almost guarantee you'll save the extra weight in heatsinks. I imagine GH is will have more of an influence in their usage than anything else.

Depends on a combination of damage and the Ghost Heat grouping, honestly.

If the gun does 16 damage and I can fire two BLCs without ghost heat, that's going to enable stronger builds on heavier 'Mechs more often than using regular LL will since I can do 62 points with just 8 hardpoints (2BLC+6ERML) instead of needing 9 for the 3xLL+6xERML combo. If the GH group is 3 on it, and I don't think that would be game-breaking, then I can do some properly nasty builds:

3BLC+6ERML = 78
3BLC+5ERML = 73
2BLC +1LL+6ERML = 71
1BLC+2LL+6ERML = 64

It would make IS laser assaults actually usefully more potent than IS laser Heavies.

[VonBruinwald]

Miss Greene, on 20 November 2020 - 05:36 PM, said:

3BLC+6ERML = 78
3BLC+5ERML = 73
2BLC +1LL+6ERML = 71
1BLC+2LL+6ERML = 64

Oh we used to dream of having nine energy hardpoints. Back in my day we had note but a spider 5v, medium lasers and a ghost heat group of ONE... aye those were the days.