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The Inner Sphere / Re: What tech actually becomes obselete

« Last post by MoneyLovinOgre4Hire on Today at 00:36:43 »

That was in TRO: Prototypes.

And yes, obsolete doesn't mean loss of the ability to produce an item.  Technically, it's still possible to produce matchlocks in the real world, but the demand for them is rather low, especially in the military.

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The Inner Sphere / Re: What tech actually becomes obselete

« Last post by ThePW on Today at 00:26:12 »

I disagree

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYSDC3cHoZs

I recall reading in the back of either TRO 3085 or TRO Prototypes about the technology changes (between what was considered advanced and experimental from 3050 to the end of the Jihad) including a list of items that was effected (or not, in some cases). That included the letter codes use to denote availability. In that regard, sure there might be some tech that could be considered obsolete but certainly not from the ABILITY to manufacture. Cost also remains a consideration (always a consideration, regardless of the era)

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General BattleTech Discussion / Re: If you could get pre-painted BattleTech figures, would you?

« Last post by Rebel Yell on Today at 00:21:37 »

I might consider buying pre-painted mechs if it was an entire group.

For instance a specific lance or company painted exactly the same with the same materials.

IMHO-the coming sets with a SINGLE painted mech aren't a great idea.
If they end user ever wants a matching group they are NEVER going to match that paint job.

The only way I will buy any of those sets is if there is a specific mech I want in the box.
The painted mech will either be stripped to plastic or sold/traded off.
I don't like having to pay extra for something I don't want.

Paint a usable group or NONE at all.

This is the way.

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Off Topic / Re: Deep Space and Interplanetary Exploration - Houston, we are go for launch!

« Last post by rebs on Today at 00:14:05 »

Honestly, I had little trouble finding the original announcement. It could have been buried.

2013 I was still taking care of my grandma before she died, so I missed a lot of things going on.  My only outlet at that time was getting caught back up on BT after a break between 1997 and 2012 when I googled it and found out that it was still alive and doing well. 

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Off Topic / Re: What movies/tv are we watching part XXX, Back into the fray!

« Last post by Jal Phoenix on Today at 00:13:51 »

Also from the wiki, linked in my post above:

Early stories depicted this ability as something that the Transformer race as a whole was not created with; it was either a wartime innovation designed to disguise themselves from their opponents, or an unexpected side effect as a result of their rebuilding at the hands of the Ark on Earth. However, it would not take long for this ability to be cemented as a natural extension of Cybertronian biology; later stories would, for the most part, establish that Transformers are born with a functioning alternate mode, or at least the ability to assume one.

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The Periphery / Re: Independent Periphery Worlds- HBS paradigm shift

« Last post by Frabby on Today at 00:09:57 »

According to the Arano housebook, the Aurigan Reach region was actually House-controlled for a time… until they decided it wasn’t wort it and pulled the border back, leaving many underdeveloped worlds - because they didn’t need them and couldn’t even be bothered to protect or patrol them.

Mechdur may feel like a local industrial powerhouse but in reality its output and cost/benefit relation was so bad the CapCon considered it a lost cause (though in this particular case they were conned about the not-so-bad development prospects).

Remember that this is the boondocks where there's one JumpShip visiting every other month if you’re lucky and HPG messaging is intermittent. It’s pretty hard to keep an outpost staffed and supplied under these circumstances - not when JumpShips in particular are in short supply.

I recon there are embassies and local intelligence rings, but any substantial presence would be a money sink.

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Off Topic / Re: What movies/tv are we watching part XXX, Back into the fray!

« Last post by MoneyLovinOgre4Hire on Today at 00:08:49 »

I rarely if ever saw the cartoon, but collected MOST if not all the comics in the UK..  And that's how i remember it too..  PLUS if they were 'supposed to have been built" by the Quintessons, HOW THEN Does that explain Primus (their planet) or the creation matrix/??

The Quentesson origin was only in the cartoon.  The Matrix of Leadership was created for the animated movie (and didn't become the Creation Matrix until later), while Primus was something Simon Furman came up with in the UK comics (which was then brought over to the US comics).  Transformers has a very complicated history.  Pretty much every iteration reinvents the stuff.

you are thinking of go bots
the great engineer put brains int robotic bodies that changed shape

My dude, I already mentioned it was used in Challenge of the Go-Bots.

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Tactical Operations / Re: Is C3 supposed to work with Chameleon LPS?

« Last post by Lincolnator on 18 April 2024, 23:57:13 »

Please disregard this thread I am a completely blind idiot who can't read apparently.  Sorry for making more work for the mods. 

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Tactical Operations / Is C3 supposed to work with Chameleon LPS?

« Last post by Lincolnator on 18 April 2024, 23:45:56 »

I know that a unit is not allowed to mount C3 or boosted C3 with stealth armor or nullsig, and even if they did those two systems explicitly cause a self-ECM effect while active that blocks the C3 connection or causes the stealth to be ineffective (in the case of boosted C3), but I can't find any rules about CLPS interacting with C3 systems.  I might just be blind.

I know that Nova CEWS is an exception specifically for nullsig, and presumably for CLPS as well, but I couldn't find anything about that interacting with CLPS, either. 

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Off Topic / Re: What movies/tv are we watching part XXX, Back into the fray!

« Last post by garhkal on 18 April 2024, 23:44:41 »

No, that was Challenge of the Go-Bots were they developed the ability to transform as part of the war.  Though I haven't seen every episode of Transformers G1, they could have put it into an episode that I didn't see.  There were at least two mutually exclusive origins for both the Dinobots and Constructions in the cartoon, after all.  But like I said, the standard explanation was that they were built as a slave race by the Quintessons with the ability to transform as part of their roles: Autobots, built for domestic labor and construction, turned mostly into cars and trucks, while Decepticons, built primarily for combat, mostly turned into jets and other war machines.

In the comics, Transformers had "evolved from naturally occurring pullies and gears" and the ability to transform was innate from the get-go.

I rarely if ever saw the cartoon, but collected MOST if not all the comics in the UK..  And that's how i remember it too..  PLUS if they were 'supposed to have been built" by the Quintessons, HOW THEN Does that explain Primus (their planet) or the creation matrix/??