Shrapnel? excellent! That is, before his death plates turns into many smaller pieces, which are evenly fly in different directions, causing enormous damage.

Let's look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrapnel_shell
Shrapnel shells were anti-personnel artillery munitions which.....................
Do you know why anti-personnel? Because it's useless against plated tanks.

This game is far from reality. But at this point feels a clear imbalance.

Today we walked around the alsbeyl. And there to us organized a warm welcome F NAVY.
As a result of a friendly meeting on our Seth was damaged by AoE:
Mordingus {Artemis}
[20:54:52] {N/A} > 5175.71 damage > Chastener
Qyro{Artemis}
[20:55:37] {N/A} > 6630.58 damage > Chastener
Alkanys{Kain} - dead from Qyro AOE
[20:55:37] {N/A} > 3356.18 damage > Chastener

Hows that? HMechs have more initial HP and more legslots than a mechs so if fitted correctly, they can cause even more AoE damage when blowing up.

Seriously, I don't really think it's a balance problem that needs any change. If you don't pay attention on distance between you and the bot that going to blow, thats mostly l2p problem IMO.

it should be tied to the amount of accumulator the bot has at the time of death :-)

...or it can be alots of lights, even more cheaper. I think there should be some people in a squad that will try and protect HMechs from such kamikaze.

About 15 volleys.
With resistances 18+ volleys.

That isn't many when you can get cycle time below 5 seconds with that much DPS.
Then have three mechs doing that much damage and no tank would survive (Unless repair fitted and even then it's rare)

it is...

actually, the explosion damage is only 40% of the max hitpoint * accumulator recharge modifier at moment of death

means - neut the targets down to zero before you kill them, and they explode with 40% spectral damage
let them explode with 50% accumulator, and they explode with 80% of their max hipoints spectral damage

@Line: no, Heavy mechs do not deal much more damage to smaller targets when they fit armor plates.

light bot with medium armor plate = 4m explosion vs. 8m or 10m = 100% damage
heavy mech with medium armor plates = 11-16m explosion vs. 4m hitsize = 25%-36% damage

so, assaults without lwf are able to survive AoE explosion of a plated Seth, but a non-LWF fitted seth can die easily from one or two exploding sequer.

seems best tactic against jihad-tactics, is same as against erp tanks: supress, neut, kill.

last but no least:
i agree that the Robot AoE is not implemented very balanced - IMHO, robot should not explode instantly. More like in Mechwarrior, where they slowly overload and then explode, with time to escape

Guys, the solution is simple. I repeat:

I mean exactly HP of Plates. Basic HP you can keep in the formulas.

That is, you've come to talk about balance, not having any data? Well, I see how you escape on gropho from the plated Kains.

Seth is ok. Your members can confirm it. You come to troll chaos here? epic fail. Go out.

1. WTF Gropho fights ALONE vs a COUPLE of plated Kains?
2. WTF plated Kains simply don't shoot that Gropho?
3. WTF are you use Mechs that actually expensive enough for suicide kami attacks?

With 1, 2 and 3 - which else data should I have to realise that there is nothing to balance except l2p?