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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.
http://www.megamek.org
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Feature Request: Allow support vehicles to have no seats #415

Open BLR-IIC opened 4 years ago

BLR-IIC commented 4 years ago

Support vehicles with robotic control systems shouldn't be required to have seats.

binaryspica commented 4 years ago

But still they requires exact weight as manned vehicle, isn't? The end result is same anyways.

neoancient commented 4 years ago

Small support vehicles have to allocate weight for all crew seating.

binaryspica commented 4 years ago

To clarify, by the construction rules of Robotic/Drone system(except for Caspar/Caspar II), they are still required to put the same weight and slots for the life-support systems and crew quarters as manned vehicles does.

Therefore it is not possible to take 'no seat' on the support vehicle, for it requires the same mass for the system and you need to calculate how heavy the seats are.

neoancient commented 4 years ago

Seats are not the same as quarters. The only units that require quarters are aerospace units, and the reason given is that the life support systems needed for maintenance crews are part of the quarters. Vehicle seats do not include any life support systems.

binaryspica commented 4 years ago

That makes sense.