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[Cannibal Cat]

(Copied and pasted from another post before I realized where it belongs)

[color=#959595]I often like to max out the armor in my 'mech, which often leaves fractional tonnage left over (0.1 tons or so)[/color]
[color=#959595]On the TT game, when this happened we had the option to fill up the remaining tonnage with partially filled ammo bins, which still take 1 critical slot, but only have 1/2 ton, 1/4 ton, whatever, ammo within it.[/color]

[color=#959595]Would it be possible to fill ammo bins similarly here, say in 0.1 ton increments (taking 1 critical slot up until it's filled at 1 ton of ammo).[/color]

[color=#959595]Or at the very least, 1/4 and 1/2 ton ammo slots. A full ton of ammo for an SRM-2 is kind of superfluous.[/color]

[color=#959595]Also, jettisoning ammunition for destroyed missile launchers so they don't blow up within the 'mech when they no longer serve a purpose.[/color]

[focuspark]

Third thread I've seen on this topic. Most people agree that 0.5 ton ammo bins would be cool. Other sizes, not so much.

[Bhael Fire]

Yeah, if you have the crit slot available, there's absolutely no reason why you shouldn't be able to do a half (or even quarter) load.

Edited by Bhael Fire, 10 December 2012 - 09:28 PM.

[Cannibal Cat]

Especially when sporting Ferro-Fibrous armor, maxing it out almost always leaves a fraction of a ton.

[Voidsinger]

This was also an issue in Battletech. In fact, almost exactly the same issue (armour had to be in 1/2 tonb lots there). Due to engine halving though, you could end up with 1/4-ton free (Clan MG)

There they held hard and the only ammunition available in 1/2 ton lots was MG ammunition. The fact you son't even have MG ammo in 1/2-ton lots means they're holding the line extra hard right now for whatever reason.

I believe all that would need to happen is extra equipment items would need to be added to the list showing tonnage, crits, amount of ammunition for whatever weapon.

Only diffivulty I could see would be how they total up the ammunition available for each weapon..