minimize new json count

[battletechmodders]

minimize new json count

[CrusherBob]

One of the things that the lore has always supported, but the rules never have is frankenmechs. From posting by some people who play the game (and weren't very good at it) they were fielding mechs armed with whatever guns they could scrape together and stick on a mech. So I'd like to at least write in the support for people to play that way with engines as well.

Of course, the second requirement would be to actually balance things better, so that optimal and non-optimal designs are much closer together.

Of course, this style may not interested everyone. That's part of the reason I'm including so many switches in the setup section. For example, you can AllowNonIntWalkValues = false, and that will greatly limit the number of engines per mech you have to look at.

[CptMoore]

frankenmechs

yea thats what #5 would even support more

balance

#13 created that issue where one can discuss balance

this ticket is just to make sure we don't add anything that we don't want to stay added for the lifetime of the game

[CptMoore]

I reduced the number of engines down a bit. Right now the game slows down considerably the more items you have. There is a rumor going on that HBS is trying to fix these issues, but I'm not sure about when or how.

Adding engines is now easy, since there is a script that can generate engines component jsons.