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[D3sertpunk]

my idea is a buider were you can splice the best parts of any of the mechs to make a new one altogether arms, legs, body, chassis, guns, missle bays the works. Now i know some may have suggested i just wanted to put my two cents in im an old mech warrior player fell out along time ago but found out about this and wanted to say what i thought about what ide would have liked back then

[Dirk Le Daring]

I have to dissagree, Mechs should (and I think will be) customisable to a certain
deree, but to change the chassis, no. A Mechwarrior will never be able to fundamentally change a chassis, those decisions are up to those in a higher position. I am confident in saying that for , say an armourded corps, platoon, whatever, no crew decides how the weapon system is configured....fundamentally, that is. So a crew for an M1 Abrams cannot change the armaments, this is a command decision, correlation....because this is a game , limited customisation, but no such thing as a Frankenmech.

I hope that is coherent

You will NEVER get a T92 turret onto an Abrams....thats the picture i get. Just an example.

Clan mechs seem to be a different story though

Edited by Dirk Le Daring, 03 April 2012 - 01:11 AM.

[Karl Streiger]

Did you think at something like Frontmission Envolved? Use a Torso, mount different legs, mount different arms...etc
Don't want to be the developer to be lynched by a mob of angry CBT fans when something like that is possible

There are some exceptions Ninja-Bolt, Schwerer Gustav, Cathepract that have the stigmata of a franken mechs but the first are curiositiys the last is allready a canon battlemech with its own production

[autogyro]

Ignoring the fact that this goes against a very big portion of what people love about BT, it also doesn't make sense contextually in the BT universe.

'Mechs are manufactured by for-profit organisations or Factional governments, often situated far away from each other. It doesn't make sense to have spliced 'Mechs the same way it doesn't make sense to have a jet comprised of Boeing 737 wings stuck onto an A330, or a Ferrari front mounted to the rear of a Ford F150. They are carefully designed machines and are proprietary designs for the companies that build them.

[Archtus]

I'm sure Armored Core is still in production...

[warner2]

As this is your first post and you registered just yesterday I think you might be on a wind-up

If you're not, then I'm not sure what you'd get by putting together the different parts of a mech within the context of a Mechwarrior game. The thing is, the only interesting thing about the parts (arms/leg/torso) are the components that you put on them (weapons). So if you want a PPC from the right-arm of an Awesome for your Dragon, then it's the PPC you'd move over, not the whole arm!

[Siilk]

D3sertpunk, on 03 April 2012 - 12:05 AM, said:

my idea is a buider were you can splice the best parts of any of the mechs to make a new one altogether arms, legs, body, chassis, guns, missle bays the works. Now i know some may have suggested i just wanted to put my two cents in im an old mech warrior player fell out along time ago but found out about this and wanted to say what i thought about what ide would have liked back then

No, no no and no. Oh, and

[D3sertpunk]

look i said what i wanted to from when i was playing mech warrior 2 and 3 and the chassis bit yah to extreme but i wanted to put a consept out there thats all nothing else and i already knew my head was on the chopping block so go ahead i said from my own stand point

[Requital]

would it be fun? yup.

will most of the fans here go for it? nope.

I think if there were more instances of it in BT cannon people would concede a little bit, and there are some cases where people built "fraken mechs", but I think it was mostly mercs if memory serves me correctly. I personally don't think it would be a good idea, or we will end up with one or two of the "best" combos, and no one would pilot anything else, and suddenly mech matches would be MUCH less entertaining...but while I do not going to agree, I have no reason to "put someones head on the chopping block" over an idea...

[CeeKay Boques]

I don't know about a Mech Builder, but I think a Mech Butler is something that I want very badley. A little Asimo with Missile Racks.

Make it so!

[Archtus]

@D3sertpunk: Even though I don't like the idea too much[A little too AC], I'm still glad you put it forward. Even if they're shot down and disagreed with, or even, lord forbid, trolled, they still need to be said.

[Aegis Kleais]

D3sertpunk, on 03 April 2012 - 12:05 AM, said:

my idea is a buider were you can splice the best parts of any of the mechs to make a new one altogether arms, legs, body, chassis, guns, missle bays the works. Now i know some may have suggested i just wanted to put my two cents in im an old mech warrior player fell out along time ago but found out about this and wanted to say what i thought about what ide would have liked back then

Not a fan of this idea, sorry. This basically makes chassis useless and robs them of their unique traits and abilities by allowing you or just create some Frankenstein Mech that is fully customized to what you want. You should wait until (if?) omnimech technology is released. It's rather lax in terms of restrictions.

One thing you'll find a lot of fans want is customization, but NOT at the expense of turning all chassis into a arms race or min/maxing on technology/features

[flying1ace]

its a good idea but i dont think any1 would agree...lol

Edited by flying1ace, 23 May 2012 - 02:57 PM.