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"the King Crab model stands around 14 inches high and consists of 3,558 pieces"  the lego millennium falcon is 7500 pieces and $850, tbqh that seems like not a totally crazy price
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A 'good' price for lego kits is roughly $1 per 10 pieces, so a 2000 piece kit should cost $200 or less to be a decent deal on an official lego kit. At 3558 pieces you're looking at about $350. With a markup (since you're buying individual pieces) $450 actually sounds weirdly reasonable. The cost would probably drop if Lego sold individual pieces directly but, sadly, they do not.
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May 3, 2023 19:19
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Started a new BTA run, got an early Firestarter Omni with ER flamers, then bought a fleet of Dakota gunships and BA, rushed up to clan space while building drop upgrades after my first planet and now I’m slowly gathering Gnome and Golem parts. Still in my starting mechs otherwise, but I have a pile of clan stuff to jam in now and just got the better part of a Sunspider from a 1 skull assassinate 
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May 3, 2023 23:12
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Hauki posted:Started a new BTA run, got an early Firestarter Omni with ER flamers, then bought a fleet of Dakota gunships and BA, rushed up to clan space while building drop upgrades after my first planet and now I’m slowly gathering Gnome and Golem parts. Still in my starting mechs otherwise, but I have a pile of clan stuff to jam in now and just got the better part of a Sunspider from a 1 skull assassinate BA are so awesome with gunships/VTOLs to ride on. Completely take the scariest mech on the other team out of a fight
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May 3, 2023 23:14
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It's funny how in every BTA run your Mechs become so slowly replaced with ClanTech that it could easily be viewed as an infection
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May 4, 2023 03:41
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GD_American posted:It's funny how in every BTA run your Mechs become so slowly replaced with ClanTech that it could easily be viewed as an infection I bought a six million cbill sanctuary weapon from the black market and it got destroyed the next mission lol
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PoptartsNinja posted:A 'good' price for lego kits is roughly $1 per 10 pieces, so a 2000 piece kit should cost $200 or less to be a decent deal on an official lego kit. Lego sells individual pieces directly, check out their Pick a Brick option. https://www.lego.com/en-us/page/static/pick-a-brick Not all pieces are available at all times though.
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May 4, 2023 13:02
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You can get a King Crab mini for $35 USD and you get another 5 mechs as bonus.
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May 4, 2023 13:07
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For those of you who want to read Battletech fiction, there's a HUMONGOUS humble bundle where $18 gets you SIXTY (60) Battletech fiction books: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/...27038eea309e0d9
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May 4, 2023 20:06
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Azhais posted:That reminds me, I don't recall if this ever got posted here, but if someone's looking for a weekend project: I want thi--- no I don't it looks cool as hell, though
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May 4, 2023 20:20
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Battletech gets embroiled in another IP nightmare:
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May 4, 2023 20:37
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It made me do a doubletake. I thought it was Call To Duty.
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SirFozzie posted:For those of you who want to read Battletech fiction, there's a HUMONGOUS humble bundle where $18 gets you SIXTY (60) Battletech fiction books: I'm horrified by how many of these I've read, some more than once. 
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May 4, 2023 20:52
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Kanos posted:I'm horrified by how many of these I've read, some more than once. The only battletech books I can specifically remember reading are the jade phoenix trilogy
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McGavin posted:Battletech gets embroiled in another IP nightmare: There is so much wrong with the person on the right that it has me entranced
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they should be paying me if they want me to take a copy of DRT
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Psion posted:they should be paying me if they want me to take a copy of DRT How funny/ tragic, that's one of the only 2 BT books I've read
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Psion posted:they should be paying me if they want me to take a copy of DRT The only thing I remember about that book is the terrible setup to the THEY SAID THE NAME OF THE BOOK part 3/4 through
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Anyone want to design a Lego Firestarter for me?
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Do flashpoints recycle if you don't do them, or is it one and done? For some reason the main campaign flashpoint in my RT game started way the hell out in Lushann (up in Kurita space) and there's no way I can get out there before it expires
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Azhais posted:Do flashpoints recycle if you don't do them, or is it one and done? For some reason the main campaign flashpoint in my RT game started way the hell out in Lushann (up in Kurita space) and there's no way I can get out there before it expires They recycle.
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Playing vanilla, wanting to balance the various weapons that everyone knows are over/underpowered. Non-exhaustive list: ML, SRM are strong. AC2+10, PLC are weak. I assume that the thread has come to consensus on this at least 500 pages ago, so I thought I'd ask rather than trying to figure it out myself: What are the generally accepted tweaks that could bring various weapon systems in line? Hoping for simple things (damage, heat, tonnage, range, ammo) rather than stuff like "change how missiles fundamentally work".
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GD_American posted:They recycle. Also you can run most of the non-campaign ones multiple times to get scrap for unique mechs.
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Atopian posted:Playing vanilla, wanting to balance the various weapons that everyone knows are over/underpowered. The common one is lower PPC heat and lower the called shot advantage quirk on the MAD. The damage scale on the ACs was a hot topic back in beta and in the end there's not perfect mix, one of the guns is always shafted.
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yeah I'd say that's really about it. with all the DLC you get a lot of powerful weapons so ML/SRM boating isn't the end-all answer but PPC and called shot are outliers that could use a tweak. I, of course, never tweak Marauder called shot because I usually drop three of them  UACs do a lot for otherwise unused autocannon types, like I'd actually mount UAC2s and UAC10s so honestly I wouldn't mess with base variants, but ymmv
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"more damage than the next tier up while still being lighter, longer-ranged, and fewer slots required" makes a lot of weapons better, yes.
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For some reason 8 MLs on a Black Knight kicks rear end but 6 on a Crab feels like nothing and I'm coming out of every mission beaten to poo poo. Level appropriate ones for both mechs, obviously. On the other hand 6 Flamers on the same Crab rules, especially for demolition missions.
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Atopian posted:Playing vanilla, wanting to balance the various weapons that everyone knows are over/underpowered. Base game wise, here's what I like. I generally go with lower weights for non AC20 autocannons, ammo per ton buffs, slight buffs for the workhorse large laser, and some heat reductions on some of the more toasty ER weapons. Basically I really like being able to build heavy dakka mechs, so my tweaks are aimed at that accordingly. I generally don't actually mess with damage values though, because I find those are pretty good stock. my general moves are: ammo-> 1.5-2x ammo per ton AC2-> 2 tons AC5-> 5 tons AC10-> 8 tons (ER)Large Laser-> 4 tons LRMs: even out tonnage progression per size, so 2/4/6/8 tons for lrm 5/10/15/20 (er/snub nose)PPCs: Drop tonnage by one, reduce heat by 15%. I don't actually even remember which of the more advanced weapons are in vanilla vs all the mod packs, since it's been so long since I played the game without something like BTA3062 installed. But in general I stick to the theme for all the advanced weapons, UACs being a ton or two heavier than their normal counterparts, LBX being a ton lighter, some buffs to pulse lasers in terms of slight tonnage and heat reductions. If you only made one tweak I would say the small AC ones are the most impactful to me, because there are an awful lot of lighter mechs that have those smattering of ballistic hardpoints that are functionally useless, because even AC2s are far too heavy to really use in any way. But with dramatically lighter AC2s you can actually toss a few on as long range plinkers or backup weapons that are light and low heat. e: I also generally go through and add armor/heatsinks to the stock designs that use AC2s like Blackjacks and Jagermechs, so they're not such walking free kill tinderboxes, but that's a bit higher effort than a couple find and replaces. Gwaihir fucked around with this message at 16:23 on May 8, 2023 |
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The real problem a lot of the default designs have is ammo in the center torso or side torsos. Thunderbolts in particular are basically worthless to the AI because of this.
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Carcer posted:The real problem a lot of the default designs have is ammo in the center torso or side torsos. Thunderbolts in particular are basically worthless to the AI because of this. A lot of them have cartoonishly thin armor too. Like some Cyclops variants go below 1000 total
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Carcer posted:The real problem a lot of the default designs have is ammo in the center torso or side torsos. Thunderbolts in particular are basically worthless to the AI because of this. I fixed that with this mod: CT Ammo Mover Moves stock design's CT ammo to other locations. Most units have had ammo moved to the Left or Right Torsos, with some edge cases moving to the Arms.
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Modding question: do AI opponents have predefined mech loadouts or are the loadouts built at the time of the mission? If I modify the size or tonnage of a piece of equipment, do my opponents’ loadouts adjust for this automatically?
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They're all predefined in the base game. There are mods that dynamically account for changes, generally with extra armor or larger engines.
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Cantorsdust posted:Modding question: do AI opponents have predefined mech loadouts or are the loadouts built at the time of the mission? If I modify the size or tonnage of a piece of equipment, do my opponents’ loadouts adjust for this automatically? You mean like if you swapped out a MG with a SL in the LCT json when would it actually take effect? When you launch the mission the game generates the OPFOR from a few lists and let's say your locust is pulled, then it loads in the info from the jsons. The game cares not for illegal configs (within a certain limit) as far as I can remember. So you could probably have a 8 PPC HBK-4P showing up in OPFOR and when you load it in the lab it would then flag it as over tonnage. It's been a while, but that's what I remember happening.
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Appreciate the various suggestions.
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lol i just got a teppo
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I've been playing BTA 3062 and enjoying it, load times aside. By far my best performing mech is a firestarter fs9-p I've got loaded with 6 flamers and 2 srm-4s with inferno ammo. Anything with ammo cooks off in a hurry and anything without can't afford to actually fire any weapons after one round. Overheating is nasty in BTA.
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Captain Foo posted:lol i just got a teppo The dumbest thing I did was not buy 4 of them.
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Amechwarrior posted:I fixed that with this mod: I'm not going to lie, I feel as though it's very gamey to move ammo away from the part of the 'mech where the weapon is. I just don't understand how in the fictional universe, ammo in a leg can get fed up to a missile launcher in an arm, or vice versa. So many moving parts in the way of that for a clean ammo feed. I think in my next run I'm going to put ammo in the same section that the weapon is in. Is it way more dangerous? Yeah, but it just feels right. And if I can blow up an AI Warhammer with a few hits to its center torso, maybe the AI deserves a similar chance.
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Crazy Joe Wilson posted:I'm not going to lie, I feel as though it's very gamey to move ammo away from the part of the 'mech where the weapon is. I just don't understand how in the fictional universe, ammo in a leg can get fed up to a missile launcher in an arm, or vice versa. So many moving parts in the way of that for a clean ammo feed. I think in my next run I'm going to put ammo in the same section that the weapon is in. This moves the CT ammo for all stock designs, players and OPFOR. I moved them towards the weapons used, as usually their isn't a weapon in the CT in the first place. BT has had ammo going across crazy places since forever. But a playthrough with ammo must be located with the weapons would be a fun challenge. You could also use my mod as a base to do that to stock designs so the entire game runs off those rules.
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