Re: Root Issue: INCENTIVES TO PLAY, INCENTIVES TO FIGHT
Actually, all it would take to fix the usefulness of mechs/heavy mechs would be:
a) Increase mech speed by 10kph.
b) Give heavy mechs the ability to switch to vehicle mode (1 min to convert) to move faster but be defenceless during vehicle mode.
c) Reduce weapon size by 10-20 percent for all medium weapons.
Done.No, light bots are not going to be irrelevant, the gap in usefulness between lights and mechs/heavy mechs will just be not so large.
There is too much fear of rendering small bots useless.
They won't be useless and they should not be in the main spotlight anyway.
Mechs should the central class in the mech genre.
Obvious, transformer troll is obvious.
Can't believe it took me so long to catch on -- I must be getting rusty with the recent layoff. Good job. +5 CoolPoints™.