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[Bobzilla]

nungunz, on 08 January 2013 - 03:55 PM, said:

I'm pretty sure that DHS is better in almost every single case.

Say you had:

XL300 w 2 HS in the engine and let's say 4 DHS outside of the engine.

Total Heat Dissipation: 2.84

To do the same with SHS you would need:

XL300 w/ 2 HS in the engine and 16 SHS outside of the engine.

Total Heat Dissipation: 2.8

This costs you 4 more crit slots and 12 more tons....plus you still have lower heat dissipation.



What mech are you running that DHS is worse than SHS?

The problem is you can't just throw DHS anywhere because they take 3 slots.
Lets say you want to make an AWS-8Q with just 2 ppc's.
DHS gets 22 DHS max, if the engine ones are really double thats the same as 37.4 reg hs.
With singles you can get 10 in engine and 26 oustside for 36 hs.

So the increase is not close to 1.4. its 1.04.

This is the problem with DHS. If you don't have high heat, you want double heatsinks most of the time as the enternal ones are more than enough to keep you cool leaving room for weapons. If your a hot running mech you probably can't afford the multiple 3 slots for addditonal externals so its not worth DHS at 1.4.

DHS benifit cooler mechs, which is just backwards.
I run towards energy boats and avoid missle/balistics knowing the energy is gonna overheat or just do lowered damage in any chasis variant.

[TruePoindexter]

BerryChunks, on 08 January 2013 - 04:08 PM, said:

in other words, third party applications have to rescue a flaw in the game.

The Cheese, on 08 January 2013 - 04:21 PM, said:

People really need to stop bailing them out like this (Not referring to the poster). They rely way too much on the community for this kind of thing as it as.

Wait so sharing a tool with someone is bad? I'm kind of confused.

TB Freelancer, on 08 January 2013 - 08:51 PM, said:

While I use that to figure out some builds, I find it completely unforgivable that I have to....

...if some amateur fan could have done that on his own. Why the hell can't PGI have something like that on the website or even better in-game.

Yes PGI should develop something similar but being fair it took Blizzard years to create their own working talent calculator for WoW which is infinitely simpler than a mech editor. For now I'm satisfied with the one on smurfy net.

Edited by TruePoindexter, 09 January 2013 - 01:43 PM.

[DeadlyNerd]

3rd party or no 3rd party, simply a made up build cannot be considered efficient unless it's tested in a game, specially when if it's not tested in caustic.
This game indeed really needs a full refund on items and upgrades if either of them are sold back within a certain period after buying. Countering exploits with this is pretty easy but not the topic of this thread.

At least do something before we get training grounds as this is a pointless waste of CBills and probably not an intended CBill sink.

edit: this is not just dhs, sometimes artemis just doesn't cut it and you'd want to revoke that upgrade. hell even putting in endo and playing with heavy guns may prove worse than standard and light guns.

Edited by DeadlyNerd, 09 January 2013 - 02:30 PM.