<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=181355.msg8721070#msg8721070">Quote from: Revenent on 10-08-2013, 06:26:59</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I'm pretty sure the real life artists who designed the Jaegers don't think the same way.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Of course not.  The Jaegers in the movie, when considered by real world engineering and military standards, are about as impractical and useless as you can get.  They don't make a single goddamn lick of sense.  A light wind would tip one over.  Their punches are less effective than WW1 artillery.  And their combat doctrine -- one on one point blank combat -- is seemingly<em>designed</em>to get civilians killed.  Kinetic kill sats that drop tungsten rods on Kaiju from orbit as they emerge from the Breach would be far cheaper and more effective.  Hell, nuking the shit out of the breach as soon as it opens would be more effective.  But if you want to enjoy the story, you have to suspend your disbelief and buy that, in this alternate universe, maybe just maybe, it<em>could</em>work.<br/><br/>The artists design the Jaegers to be cool and attractive.  But if you're going to be RPing in the 'verse, you have to get in the mind of someone FROM the 'verse.  To them, Jaegers aren't works of advertisement created for a movie, they're the ultimate weapon, created by humanity to defend against the ultimate threat.  And they should be treated as such.  Thus they don't deserve cool or badass weapons, but effective and efficient ones.  In the 'verse, rocket-accelerated melee weapons fit that definition.<br/><br/>In other words, you're holding to the 'verse.  And that is good.