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PerkinsC
Office Automation Clerk, Phriah, PITA
You decide.
I build Spreadsheets to verify the performance of weapons in game in comparison to similar weapons in the real world.
I have managed to find links to many real world weapons, both under the old Stats from RPG 1st Edition, TR3026, RPG 2nd Edition, MechWarrior Companion and under the newer Stats from RPG 3rd Edition & LosTech and the RPG 3e Companion.
There is an existing game system to convert from LosTech / RPG 3e stats to BattleTech Stats it was published in Combat Operations and remains valid until Tactical Operations Manual or the Revision to RPG 3rd Edition is published (IOW {Not Appearing in Total Warfare / Tech Manual is not even implying that it was discarded - and since this is Primarily an RPG thing, I'd say it could not be declared discarded until the publication of the RPG book, if even then.)
Over the past number of years since an unfortunate encounter with a 3" cannon (some time during 2003 - 2004) i have seriously questioned my ability to communicate effectively, if I appear to repeat my self, it is because I fear that I have failed to communicate and am attempting to make it legible. The alternative is to call someone on their reading comprehension (if I have trouble ordering at a fast food counter, it might just be me).
If I say that something meshes in a Spreadsheet, give me enough credit to assume that I worked my way through many possibilities before I have Bothered to Comment on it - the Knee Jerk reactions of the community are not always correct... and I will validate or eviscerate the knee jerk reactions on their own merits, and not the reputation of the last one to blindly follow the community myths.
Take me at my word when it is given.
It's all that I have left.
PerkinsC 20:04, 1 March 2008 (CST)
Focus
My focus is on the RPG/infantry Scale, I have both helped (great pride) {probably influenced/helped the increased focus on infantry weapons/platoons in BattleTech Scale and probably provided the only reason for LAMs to be republished} and hurt the game with this (even greater shame) {signing off on something without really looking when you are in a alpha/beta test precisely to provide your perspective, anything published that follows using what you didn't catch is your fault. --- MG Ammo and Pulse Energy Consumption, Erroneous Eratta on the CBT Page for the CBT Companion}. For most of the writers or fans the focus is on the BattleTech or Capitol Weapons scale, so the infantry and dueling rules scale are left to be looked at. The main reason that infantry scale is so important is that the RPG scale is where it is possible for cross over with real world weapons that were in production or in (open/not secret) prototyping at the time of the writing of the various sourcebooks and the most data is available for the RW infantry weapons.. and the ranges in the RPG are not reduced to provide playable distances. --Cameron 15:31, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
To do List
- Build Pages for Every infantry scale weapon that there is with BT & RPG Stats for the Infantry and BattleArmor Variants.
- Build Template for Each Infantry/BattleArmor Scale weapon that can be transcluded for the Seperate RPG Stat Pages.
- Build Pages for the BattleTech & Capitol Scale weapons that have fluff that can be translated into RPG Stats using the Infantry Platoon Creation Rules.
- Make Help:CreateInfantryWeaponArticle usable.
- Make Help:CreateCustomInfantryWeaponArticle usable.
- Make Help:CreateBattleArmorWeaponArticle usable.
- Make Help:CreateCustomBattleArmorWeaponArticle usable.
- Make Template:InfoBoxInfantryWeapon more usable.
- Make Template:InfoBoxCustomInfantryWeapon more usable.
- Make Template:InfoBoxBattleArmorWeapon more usable.
- Make Template:InfoBoxCustomBattleArmorWeapon more usable.
- Add Slots for Vehicle Mounted or Capitol Scale weapons to Template:InfoBoxInfantryWeapon
- Add Slots for Vehicle Mounted or Capitol Scale weapons to Template:InfoBoxCustomInfantryWeapon.
- Build Page for table with required eratta for Infantry Weapons.
- Build Page for table with required eratta for BattleArmor Mounted Weapons.
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