Ideas and Plans

[Sheep-y]

Plan to do for v3.1:

• Fix LRM and SRM stats if not fixed in 1.3. Also check cFixes.
• Dim names of acted mechwarriors.
• Always show tonnage with numeric info.
• Fix alpha damage in mech bay if not fixed in 1.3. Fixed in 1.3.
• Show target distance range when no PC mech selected.
• Extend miss floatie to show how much the shot missed.
• Consolidate targeting range cheevons.

Plan to do for v3.2:

• Patch code refactor to isolate each feature and unpatch on exception.
• Refine resolve per round - Team.CollectSimGameBaseline
• Click on total bar to enable / disable / switch all weapons.
• Change movement line colour when there are debuffs or dangers.
• Console combat log -
• Fix inconsistent los between attack and move.
• Fix Multi-Target target mismatch and unselection accuracy.

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Candidates for future versions:

• Customisable text - number displays, modifier text etc.

• Show enemy LOS and outline during attack to make it clearer who is firing who

• Hotkey to swap LOS Hue - Jo has granted permission to use keybind code Abandoned since it'll change profile data.

• Adjustment of clustering weight during called shot.

• Adjust called shot degradation.

• Associate clustering weight with distance.

• Multiple clustering per LRM.

• Show original indirect/refire penalty in tooltip.

• Scale stability damage or cap.

• Diminishing range modifier.

• Show chance to kill

• Floatie of damaged location status after attack.

• Floatie of total heat and stability after actions.

• Log attack modifiers.

• Log target stability and attacker heat.

• Animate movement line.

• Fix damage number colour - Don't use red if damage falls onto an armoured location. Check AttackSequence.OnAttackSequenceImpact May continue from failed commit fa6b28e

• Add stability damage floatie Too confusing. Damage number is hard to read enough. Adding stability floatie make things worse.

• Melee / shot after sprint - never / always / Gut 8, with option to not fire support weapons? How to update AI?

• Melee called shot - never / prone and vehicle / everything / Gut 8. How to update AI?

• Allow melee attack on buildings - Too many methods to change. Can we create an AbstractActor proxy for buildings?

• Fix Melee direction highlight goes away when mouseovering attack button

• Fix Switching from Melee to Ranged will show no direction ring

• Fix selected location and hover not going away when a new target is selected

• Show heightened accuracies when you mouse over on precision strike icon

• Log AoE such as ammo crate explosion.

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Crazy Ideas, likely to be another mod if ever:

• Support limbs called shot from the back. Expected to borrow and override front-selection handling.

• Double walk/jump - Ace Pilot?

• Allow Ace Pilot to remove full block plus partial stability after action.

• Breaching Shot - Always apply to first or biggest weapon?

• Bulwark % adjustment - How about brace?

• A proper speed up mod to speed things up and removes delays.

[Sheep-y]

Done for v 3.0:

• Animate LOS colour - make it easy for colour blind too

• Bigger terrain dots and deeper colour

• Re-test compatibility with melee mover and BTMLColorMod - mod detection may no longer be necessary after shifting to IL patch.

• Check MechEngineer's CASE II implementation and report to Cargo_Vroom about whether they'll work on vehicles.

• Use transpiler for ArcLinePoints.

• Skip beating dead mech.

• Shorten pilot hint - to avoid line wrap on elite pilots.

• Colour nameplate to match armour bar.

• Show weapon crit or all its bonus.

• Show weapon range in weapon popup.

• Show enemy wounds in pilot names.

• Factor geothermal in heat prediction.

• Double click 1-4 to select mech - changed to F1-F4.

• Shift+Tab select previous unit.

• Shift+Click target previous unit in Multi-Target.

• Right-Click weapon slot to enable/disable it - changed to Ctrl Click

• Add L/R label to Front and Rear.

• Show enemy pilot skills somewhere.

• Use indirect when better than direct.

• Show target damage: alpha , non-overheating max, and melee/dfa.

• Update damage with target's damage resistance.

• Smarter Multi-Target weapon assignment.

• Show both danger warning and terrain hint

• Fix Melee selection not showing terrain panel

• Fix Melee movement not show evasion pip

• Allow friendly unit to be attacked when press Ctrl. - Tougher than expected. >_<

• Change component colour by weapon type or ammo level.

• Reverse modifier breakdown

[Secluse]

I wanted to thank you for this mod, it's incredible work. One feature I would love, and after tinkering I realized I'm not good enough to do myself, is to enable EvasivePips being removed when hit (versus the generic removal, percentage based or not, after any attack sequence).

I would ideally like to tag the triggering of the removal to specific weapon tags (e.g. lasers may ignore pips, but getting hit with an autocannon may result in loosing a pip).

[Sheep-y]

@Secluse Sorry for the late response. I have no intention of reworking the evasion system at the moment (at least the crit system had bugs!). Have you tried the mods "Permanent Evasion" and/or "Semi Permanent Evasion"?

https://www.nexusmods.com/battletech/mods/94
https://www.nexusmods.com/battletech/mods/249