Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Darrian Wolffe]

OK, in light of an extremely recent event, I'm going to exchange it after going further through the process in AtB and realizing something really, really, important.



It says RANDOM Mech.  Not "random from the employer's available Mechs".  When AtB doesn't specify beyond simply saying "random", it means that it's rolling an RNG against the total number of defined Mechs (in this case, "Light") which are available during the specified years (ie, up to 3045).  I know this, because when I auto-completed the mission in the sample game of AtB I'd started to even generate the SL Cache mission report in the first place...it gave me a Kit Fox B.  Yes, a CLAN MECH.  Since those existed in 3045.

Now, obviously, that's not going to be a thing. 

So what I'm going to do here is open a copy of AtB and figure out how many Mechs are available up to 3045 using the "GM Unit Purchase" submenu, and roll an RNG with that many values, rerolling until I get something that's possible (ie, rerolling Clan-tech results).

[Darrian Wolffe]

So what I'm going to do here is open a copy of AtB and figure out how many Mechs are available up to 3045 using the "GM Unit Purchase" submenu, and roll an RNG with that many values, rerolling until I get something that's possible (ie, rerolling Clan-tech results).

266 Units.

Rolled 1d266 : 219, total 219

[Darrian Wolffe]

So what I'm going to do here is open a copy of AtB and figure out how many Mechs are available up to 3045 using the "GM Unit Purchase" submenu, and roll an RNG with that many values, rerolling until I get something that's possible (ie, rerolling Clan-tech results).

266 Units.

This dice roll has been tampered with!
Rolled 1d266 : 219, total 219

Adder (Puma) A. 

Rerolling

[Darrian Wolffe]

I'm stupid.  I forgot SSW filters exist.

Note that the lower numbers is because the Clan stuff has been removed.  I still have a few Light custom Mechs of my own design floating about in there; I'll reroll if I land on one.  Finally, AtB has support for LAMs, while SSW does not.  To counteract this, I'm adding the following results to the table (this is way more of a PITA than I thought it was going to be):

173: STG-A1
174: WASP-100
175: WSP-100A
176: STG-A5
177: WSP-105
178: WSP-100b
179: STG-A10
180: WSP-105M

Note that for future PC results where a truly random result is possible, I'll do this behind the scenes for everybody.  But I want to be up-front and transparant the first time this happens for two reasons: 1) it's the first time this has happened and I want ya'll to understand how this works, and 2) it's my lance, so transparancy is even more important.

[Darrian Wolffe]

Forgot to roll.

Rolled 1d180 : 158, total 158

[Darrian Wolffe]

And of course I land on a custom Panther variant.  DHS and a blazer cannon would be nice though.

Rerolling.

Rolled 1d180 : 165, total 165

[Darrian Wolffe]

And of course I land on a custom Panther variant.  DHS and a blazer cannon would be nice though.

Rerolling.

This dice roll has been tampered with!
Rolled 1d180 : 165, total 165

All right, here's result 165 out of the 172 units listed in SSW.



Woof.  8/12[16]/0.  10 DHS, 7.5 tons armor, supercharger, and x9 small pulse lasers.  I'm thinking sell.  I'm not Dan.

[ItsTehPope]

Can I have the supercharger?

[Darrian Wolffe]

Forgot to roll.

This dice roll has been tampered with!
Rolled 1d180 : 158, total 158

Fuck - I just realized, I screwed up and had my "order of display" set on "alphabetical by BV" when I rolled this, whereas it's on "alphabetical by tonnage" when I rolled the other stuff; that's why the Panther doesn't show up in the image just above.  Had the order of display been set correctly, this would have produced a different result (albeit a non-canon Raven -3X, which would have necessitated a reroll anyway).

Does anyone want me to restart from scratch?  I don't want anyone to think I'm gaming the system here.

[Darrian Wolffe]

Can I have the supercharger?

Won't work.  They're tonnage and engine-specific.

[Timberwolfd]

Silly question, why not filter by year or era to make it Star League?

[Darrian Wolffe]

Silly question, why not filter by year or era to make it Star League?

I don't understand the question. 

[Timberwolfd]

Never mind. Brain was still stuck on star league cache, not employer exchange. Silence in the peanut gallery.

[Timberwolfd]

I do think that you should reroll on principle, but I would support adding a battlemech filter to get rid of the loader mechs and construction mechs. Though I will admit I would laugh if you rolled an agromech.

[ItsTehPope]

Can I have the supercharger?

Won't work.  They're tonnage and engine-specific.

Ahhhhh....

Let me have this one.