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Just an idea. The actual pinboard (1.4) is not very useful. The only parts I really use are the information on heat and engine. Is this going to be updated in WS? The information from Jukka's tables could be useful for giving points to a titan. The pinboard gives top points to useless titans (like the one posted which uses all types of weapons and all the electronics).

Originally posted by ste_mark:
Just an idea. The actual pinboard (1.4) is not very useful. The only parts I really use are the information on heat and engine. Is this going to be updated in WS? The information from Jukka's tables could be useful for giving points to a titan. The pinboard gives top points to useless titans (like the one posted which uses all types of weapons and all the electronics).

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The pinboard is also useful to give you a printout of your titans, so you can share your designs. That's really what I use it for nowadays. I don't check power and heat balances anymore, but that doesn't mean newbies won't. It is a tool to give you general tips about a design's performance when used in its role. A good allround titan will not perform well as a support, just as a good support will not excel as an attack titan.
I'm guessing there will be at least one change in the pinboard, a minor one. There'll be a new range category, close. Will include CC weapons and MGs and SLs, which will no longer be part of short range. Larkin reworked the ranges, I guess as part of his AI's improvements.

There are a few changes to the WS pinboard and some of them can be considered Major changes. Essentially, the pinboard is an easy way to determine whether you have serious design flaws or not. Yellow is decent, green is great, red means rethink this aspect.

There are going to be some major changes to TOS:WS but unfortunately, I have been sworn to keep this info TOP SECRET. believe me, the info is burnin a hole in my secret pocket.

I'd really love to see a pinboard that posted numbers for each titan I design like PUs generated and under that, PUs used for move, weapons, shields, etc, so I could see if my design work, and what I could lose if I needed to. Also, I'd like to see a heat/sec vs heat reg capacity to see if I am designing a time bomb.

Weapons is a tougher one for the pinboard, because there are so many different damage effects. A raw damage/sec at each range would be okay too, but would have to be taken with a grain of salt.

This sure would help me to get my power management down better. That and heat management are my greatest weaknesses.

Please?

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