/btg/ - Battletech General

Why does everyone in this galaxy have such a fetish for inventing stuff that is DIFFERENT but never actually improving anything? Will anyone ever build something that is simply an objective improvement?

A lot of parties are looking for that next big thing. Either to grab it for themselves, or to kill whoever made it so that nobody else can get it.

Comstar pretty much did this for centuries to ensure it's position as galactic verizon wasn't threatened.

Because it would unbalance the game, duh.

There was a plastic one?

Real answer? The game prides itself on allowing you to use (almost) all of your original stats for things, regardless of era. Adding technology upgrades like slimming Ferro Fibrous and Endo Steel crits down, or reducing the weight of weapons, would bloat the game even more than it already is. It's a practical decision, but one that makes everyone in the current fluff look like fucking idiots. If we take the original fluff, where the IS got their shit together with Double Heat Sinks and so on in less than two years, it's just as bad, if not worse. By the late 60s, the IS should have been closing the tech gap better than LFF and HFF and Ecomp. By the 3100s, Clantech proportions should be higher than 10-20% (That tech rating has disappeared in the 3145 FM is hilarious though), yet the IS powers still cannot into mass producing tech they were garage kitting 60 years ao.

Pretty sure that user means the plastic DA Centurion.

ya guys have Alpha Strike Companion? Can't find it in OP's links (checked both - am I derp?)
Btw, sharingdude#2 - the amount of stuff you have is overwhelming and I'm really thankful for sharing, but the folders&subfolders there are a mess, searching for anything is a pain :-/
Or is there a smart way to use that, some search options etc. of which I am not aware of?

It's in there somewhere.

I downloaded it myself something like 2 months ago.

Ahh, I forget clix miniatures were a thing. Not out of grognard rage or whatever, just lack of familiarity.

I really like the MWO centurion design though. Can't imagine Yen Lo Wang looking like the old design any more after exposure to that.

Apparently, I am a retard. It is in the first one (the better/simplier organized one), just not next to the "normal" Alpha Strike. Thanks for the tip, man.

Going to chance my arm at the Irish nationals even though I havent been playing long. Is there anyone here that is going?