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MegaMek / megameklab

MegaMekLab is a BattleTech unit modification program. It allows creating and modifying all unit types available in MegaMek from Support Vehicles up to WarShips. It also allows printing record sheets for single or multiple units.
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RFE: Display heat dissipation with radical heat sinks #1584

Closed pavelbraginskiy closed 1 month ago

pavelbraginskiy commented 3 months ago

Currently, units with radical heat sinks have a somewhat unhelpful Total Heat Dissipation value printed. Consider this Doloire: image

It can sink 32 heat when the RHS is off, or 48 with it on. It never sinks 39 heat.

It would be more useful to display this as Total Heat (Dissipation): 43 (32 [48]), similar to how movement points are displayed with multiple values when a unit is equipped with MASC or other such equipment.

Similarly, this should also be used for Coolant Pods.

The RISC Emergency Coolant System might say something like 20 [26+x], but I'm open to ideas for more elegant notation.

HammerGS commented 3 months ago

I'm open to it, and kinda like it. But we'd have to run it past CGL

Saklad5 commented 2 months ago

I just thought to make an RFE for this, and found someone already did. I think reusing the format for MASC and Superchargers would make more sense, wherein you put the enhanced heat dissipation in parenthesis.

With ten double heat sinks, a radical heat sink system, and a maximum of 24 heat generation, this could look like 24/20(30).

Also, my RFE was going to be about MegaMekLab's interface, not the record sheet. We wouldn't need CGL's approval for that.