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From: sphaak@vela.acs.oakland.edu (sphaak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Mechforce/Storm Over Europe
Message-ID: <5080@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Date: 9 Feb 91 16:37:10 GMT
References: <1991Feb6.205817.19780@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
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Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI
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In article <1991Feb6.205817.19780@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> robert@alliant.backbone.uoknor.edu (Robert Lindsay) writes:
>It's nice to see that Ralph Reed's game is still getting good comments and
>being played. I myself perhaps shall soon finish re-entering ALL the mechs
>from the original Battlemech Tech readout into version 3.71 format. My
>question is what does everyone use for recycle times for their weapons?
>The default settings penalize cannons and missles way to much I think.
>(I believe it is 15 sec - beam, 30 sec - missles and cannons) I have tried
>using 0 second which makes for a nasty game! 


In the first place, the counter in the upper-right hand corner of the screen
displays time in tenths of seconds, not in seconds (the decimal point is 
missing).  So the default recycle times are 1.4 seconds for beam weapons and
flamers, 2.9 seconds for autocannons and machine guns, and 5.4 seconds for
missiles.  You can reset the recycle time for all weapons at 9.6 seconds, 
which ends up being 10.0 seconds because the program always adds 0.4 seconds
(for pressing the trigger or something).  This makes everything the same as in
the FASA Battletech game (the scale of the hexes is the same as well, as well
as the rate of heat dissipation for the heat sinks).  The only problem is that
the arms and legs of the mech still recycle way too fast, and Ralph didn't 
give us the option to reset those!  So I usually just use the default recycle
times.  I'm used to them.

BTW I play ONLY with the FASA mechs (and my own).  I put the FASA mechs on my
disk over a year ago.




---The Tygers of Wrath are WISER than the Horses of Destruction--- 

Ross Starkey
Wayne State University
Downtown Detroit!