ghostrider
02/14/15 12:06 AM
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This might be a good time to make a new thread if we are going to get off topic even more.
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ghostrider
02/14/15 03:31 AM
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The last post I did was during wolf lords post, so didn't get to read it.
I agree that it sounds completely stupid that each time the innersphere starts to get ahead, they lost alot yet again. That should mean everytime Germany got into a war, they would have to restart in the stone age.
Now not have the educated people to do alot of work would be an issue for research and repairs, but after a while you would stop allowing people the choice of becoming a car salesman when they have the intellect to design or repair the equipment. Some of the crap of well this scientist doesn't want to move from backwoods planet x would not be allowed.
This would be done in the do or die way of life the succession wars, especially the earlier ones, were.
Now wolf brought up something that it seemed the developers swept to the side. The limited number of mechs that could be made. It seemed to jump from barely any to thousands of mechs per year. Just the 4th succession war, the 3039 war, then the clans.
Without raids and such which is very common in that time, the mechs lost to those battles would have removed a sizable portion of the houses involved in the conflict.
On top of that, mercs would be purchasing units as well. Some how the kell hounds, grey death legion and a few other large merc were able to expand yet only a few hundred mechs spread across the innersphere we made. Liao have very heavy losses they seemed to make up quickly.
And please don't forget simple things like the lack of fusion engines stopped alot of production when trying to answer this.
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