So who here ever use SHS? Who would ever trade a double heat-efficiency for 1 ton, for smaller but less heat-efficient? Barely anyone right?
But this was one of the question in Cauldron Discord this morning, as if they wanted SHS to be more useful than what it is right now. My first solution was just let heat-sinks mix, where if you have a spare-ton but not enough slots, put an SHS and call it a day -- that would be heretical though.
That got me thinking though. Realistically, the allure of double dissipation is just too damn good to pass up, it just does nothing but good on most builds, of course SHS will be ignored. XML value changes won't really solve that.
So here's my idea, with a bit of coding. A dynamic heating system.
IDEA: (Actual numbers aren't fixed, but the concept is there)
> Fixed Dissipation at 1.6 H/S, both SHS and DHS.
> SHS has 60 base Heat Capacity + 1 per SHS
> DHS has 50 base Heat Capacity + 0.6 per DHS
> DHS has +100%% Heat Dissipation while currently at +50% Heat Threshold.
The mechanic of this is that the DHS is instead giving off bonus heat dissipation only while at +50% of heat threshold, think of it as the direct anti-thesis of TSM. Meanwhile the SHS will have consistent heat dissipation instead.
The point of this change is that, the heat-dissipation is only active to a build that is quickly building up heat, such as say Laser-Vomit. Alphas can quickly eat up the heat-gauge, but it will cool off just enough to let off another shot. This also incentivizes maintaining the heat at above 50% in a careful fashion, to maximize heat-dissipation, while also making it risky as you can immediately overheat with an uncontrolled shot. Now if they want to let loose more shots at an encounter, then they must wait longer.
The SHS in contrast however, instead caters to the mid to low heat, this is the ACs and Gausses. They are unlikely to build up heat quickly, and thus won't make good use of DHS as they will quickly drop of that 50% threshold and not fully utilize the upper half of the heat capacity. It instead however has good heat-capacity and acceptable heat-dissipation, able to sustain for incredibly long amount of time.
Thoughts?
Edited by The6thMessenger, 03 October 2023 - 05:14 PM.