TAG gives too much detail

[rwil02]

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As a tool for specifically helping to acquire missile locks, TAG should not give you "all the details" on a mech (e.g. % health, paper doll, or weapons). It used to be the case that there was no choice about this. But we now have UAVs, and a UAV lets you locate and target a 'Mech(s), but not get "all the details" if the Mech is not in LOS.

Proposal: TAG should work like a UAV targeting a single 'Mech outside LOS, i.e. target rectangle and target designation only.

[tauSentry]

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What would be the details that are available (e.g. target designation, etc.)?

[rwil02]

I'd say exactly the same as the UAV. I believe that will give you the red rectangle, the ability to lock LRMs, and tell you where they are on the map.

It doesn't give you % health, or the paper doll, or the weapons.

[tauSentry]

Roger that. Updated your post to reflect the clarification.

[YouKnowNothing]

Thing is, I can't remember now what the sensor ranges are for different classes of mechs, but I think at least for lights and mediums it is greater than the TAG range, so if you can lock a mech with TAG you can already target it and gather information if it's not ECM covered. And since Tag breaks ECM, you can do that with those mechs too. Now if say, you're in an assault and the mech you're TAGing is outside of your sensor range ( over 600m's I think), then yeah, you should get just the info you would if there was an UAV above it (so no paperdoll info, just the red square over the mech)

[rwil02]

That's it though, TAG shouldn't "break" ECM. All it is, is a modulated laser designator.

NARC should break ECM I think, if you assume it's programmed to dynamically alter the transmission spectrum, since it's operating next to the emitter.

And I'm often running TAG with a range >925m