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you don't need new graphics engine,
you need the whole game engine ported into a commercial product like Unreal or Unity (the later would be nice)

the current level of detail present ingame, would even allow to have it ported to an in-browswer solution

Its NERF or nothing!

god thanks 99% of the pvp matches are out in the open,
not around a teleporter or a terminal, so situations where one guy with huge alpha strike, double'RSA and fast-lock nexus supported, is standing there, and random guy is still watching a timer go down until he can be locked,to decide what to do in those 2 seconds he has before the screen turns dark again.

right?:fuuu:

btw, i hope you guys use the time with this balance to get rid of unwanted gamma buildings....

yes, practically, you will see LWF fitted bots with 30% less hitpoints by default, and ofc, the example was with the combat heavy that has by default the most hitpoints and highest kinetic resists.

meaning: any other non-armor fit is DEAD after one or max two volleys. you could start theocrafting how many hits from a single gun a lwf fitted assault will take:

= max 1

given that there is now a chance that those guns miss, it still takes only a single hit from one of the 6 magnetic guns to explode. if you fit armor plates, you surface size will grow and the chance to get hit with it.
as a result there is no way around stacking uni-hardeners or shields.

and that because the example was using UDC (Universal Death Charge?) slugs that simply deal all damage types...

22*265 = 5844 kinetic damage
10*265 = 2650 thermal
10*265 = 2650 seismic
10*265 = 2650 chemo

total 13.816 damage
vs. empty seth mk2 (6800 HP):

5844*0,38 (kinetic resists)= 2.220+
2650*0,62 (thermal resists)= 1643 +
2650*0,79 (seismic resists)= 2098 +
2650*0,68 (chemo resists)= 1802
total: 7763  damage

= theoretical one-shot.
with a single armor plate the SETH would have 9k+ hitpoints but also enough hitsize to have all hits land.
and the mesmer wilk have 1664 accumulator less

well, it may be one-shot killk... if you fit all legslots with stabs to actually have all 6 guns hit, given the dispersion

isn't the incrase in mass for the armor plates contra-productive?
i mean, all you want to counter there, is the 30% mass reduction that LWFs provide.

and you want that mostly for those bots that got increased base mass by design (mk2's)

if i remember it correctly, speed formular works like this
(Robot Mass)/[(Robot Mass + Equip Mass)*LWF-factor] * base speed

if the part in the [] Brackets is less then the base robot mass, then the robot will run faster.
by default that means, the robot will always be slower if it fits anything, and because lwf factor will also reduce equipments mass (for whatever reason), it will always run faster with lwf.

would have been better to have the formulare include a laden weight, and lwf only reducing robot mass...
something like (Laden Weight)/[(Robot Mass*lwf-factor)+Equip mass] * base speed.

you could have a default robot fit, with T1 running exactly the base speed, a t2 fit running faster, and a heavier fit slower. the LWF would only allow you to fit 30% more mass without losing speed.

does it really matter if the efficiency goes below a factor of 1?

actually, i dont know if it would increase server load - after all, you cannot turn those tunings on or off like resist plates (which would be another idea )
the server only needs to calculate youre damage mods once you deploy to terrain - or interact with a field terminal.
thats the reason why you need to dock for changes on your extensions (it didn't work right when it was still "allowed")

server load will be reduced allot with the change anyway, because 1s-cycletime MG seth's wont be possible anymore

important question to ZOOM - what are you plans for prototypes, with cycletime bonuses removed ?

btw,
the only "quick and dirty" way to have tunings get diminishing returns, would be to make them not incrase damage by x% but incresing the damage per shot by and absolute
that way, each additional tuning wil increase the overall damage by the same % and not more. due to accumulator still beeing multiplicative, the efficiency would drop the more modules you fit

well, that depends on your idea of efficiency. beeing kill targets faster always was more efficient, since you didn'T have to use your accumulator for repairs.

given that repair modules on mechs already startwith 70% efficiency, and the tuning rebalance pushes that further into the negative...
if just jita didn'T propose the size change for injector charges ...

question to zoom:
NPCs will be affected by this too - but how?
their tunings will be T1 across the board?

looking at the repair tuners - will there be any ERP fits usable after that change? will repair modules get a similar treatments regarding their efficiency? (t4 burst repair, bad accumulator, t2 good repair, slower)

question to zoom: could you make different tiers of drainers have different cycletimes? with so much power beeing consumed, i would love to use that drainer slot on the mesmer for something - but a medium drainer with 10 seconds cycletime never worked well when you had killed your target in less then 20 seconds. the gain was same negliable.
have no LoS when that one cycle happened it was even a loss for you.

@mroq - given your last sentence, i take that as "it looks good on paper" ?