Of course faster mechs doesnt make sense. But EWs should either be able to use their max speed with EW eq only - or when using guns (which) they arent meant for - be slower as lights.

or b) have their max speed be a temporary ability to still be able to tackle and scout - but not to rush in and out and evade enemy fire while being capable of returning fire, which makes them op for that small amount of money/ressources and setup requirements.

A temporary speed aterburn that overloads interference and last for until interference level isnt up would work on all families independant of accumulator, bring a negative element to them so reduce their offensive capabilities and would time base the afterburn effect until interference reduced again back to 0.

The points still stand. Why should one class of bots be free to dictate fights and do the fighting? The demob thing doesnt do anything.

Youll need a gang of diverse mechs to cope with gang of dps fit EW. The latter is easier to achieve, cheaper and your still free to roam anywhere.

Its easy to do actually. Take the speed, use terrain to avoid mech range, kite the group and focus the nearest.

Then its a EW group against a single mech for any mech in the group.

edit: since you have the speed - you can dictate in which terrain to fight and always use this advantage and if things get tight you run out of range in 5 secs and start over.

Nobody said that theyre not useful in roams - they just arent useful to push off EWs.

No Sir, Glimpse of HokkogarOZ.

Ok if the outcome is either that or the other bot will be used then i vote for that one.

I wouldnt suggest making mechs center of the fights as opposed to know - thatd be stupid. But as Annihilator put it precisely:

EW dictate AND do allthough they should only dictate OR do. Thats basically it. Making top speed temporary would change that or atleast would speed make a tactical ability with cooldown as opposed to always having it. Or making EWs either use EW stuff with high speed as supporters OR weapons with low speed.

Well - people have trained EW and mechs aswell - tahts not the reason to not use them. Its easy to use them to be efficient - but its a matter of look, game design and style. People simply dont like spiders only in a game where lots of bots are pointless in open pvp.

Better do so or Siddy will start danish!

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