<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=159179.msg7842019#msg7842019">Quote from: Sel Nar on 07-03-2013, 21:22:42</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><ul class="bbc_list">The 'pseudo-omni comment is in regards to the fact that Mechwarrior 4's 'hardpoint' system allowed you to literally 'plug and play' weapons, which was the major advantage Omnis have over 'classic 'mechs.<br/><br/>Just popping out something like an Autocannon for a gauss, or a dozen machineguns, or a larger/smaller autocannon is asking for trouble with the 'mech's computer systems until you patch into the Targeting and Tracking systems and program it with the new range profiles and estimated damage threshold of the weapon(s), as well as a whole crapton of extra information needed to ensure that, if you're aiming at something, you won't get an error message saying that the AC/20 your mech no longer has can't hit the target you have locked with your shiny new gauss rifle.<br/><br/>As for minor modifications, such as stripping out unwanted weapons for extra heat sinks or armour, or 'Common sense' Modifications, such as creating a 'prototype' -9Q Awesome 7 years before it becomes an industry standard, instead of the 8M, which was 'triple the cost by plugging in all the cool new shit, at the cost of the reputation of it being a 'zombiemech'', well, we already have an established response in that regard.<br/><br/>Doing something more difficult, such as popping out a pair of arm-mounted weapons, and attendant ammo to mount Jump jets in the torso or legs? That's nearly a month of refit time, plus modifications to the computers to allow the previously-groundbound mech the 'fun' of being able to jump over a height 1 building.<br/></ul></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>I knew it would involve time to tinker with the computer so it would know it has a short range machine gun instead of a long range gauss. While my mech isnt in the scene yet I was trying to find out if I could do some modifications because it is a CRD-4BR that is 4 years ahead of its time. Now I know what I had planned will take awhile, I need to know about the taking off the machine guns to put more LRM ammo in and if that is a good choice being a missile boat variant. [/list]