| Jack Simth |
I'm confused, and figured I'm missing something, so I figured I'd ask....
I was looking through the mech rules, and saw something that seems weird: the scaling in mech points seems off. The formulas are simple enough: 15*level points per character, a given mech needs 15*(tier + 1) mech points, which is also the limit of what it can spend on main systems (non-upgrades).
However, everything costs (some number)*(the mech's tier).
So at tier 1, you have 30 mech points, Great, no problem, you add frames, Limbs, power, weapons, and other main systems together so that you have 30 points spent, which basically just means adding the multipliers together until you have 30*tier, and spend any excess on upgrades. No problem here.
When you level up to tier 2, however, it's 45 points. You upgrade all your systems to tier two... and problem: To upgrade everything, you need to have a 60 point mech,but at tier 2, you're limited to 45. You have to drop some systems, because your spend limit is 45. You need to dump some systems to keep everything up-to-date, because you can only spend 22.5*tier on main systems.
This happens again literally every tier: at tier 3, you can spend 60 points on main systems, which is 20*tier.At tier 4, 75 is 18.75*tier. At 5th, 90 is 18*tier. And so on.
Are you just... not supposed to upgrade some systems? Have 15*tier in scaling items and skip upgrading on the extra 15 points (there's some text in the Thundergauntlet that would support this, but I'm not finding any main rules text to support it on the website). This seems like a poor setup, though, as certain systems scale very little or even not at all (the power core costs more at higher tiers, butt has exactly zero scaling, same as the special materials for the hull; most limbs barely scale at all, so it's really just the weapons one would focus on). Is this the intent? It seems odd that there aren't any flat price items if it is.
Is dropping a system every tier or so intended behavior?
I'm confused. Help?