so we put a heatsink in yo car so you can group fire ppcs while you drive

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here's an idea for heatsink customization i'd like to throw out there for a little peer review.  Instead of cbt's shoving heatsinks into various left over spots on your mech which could probably account for a good chunk of customization time, or mw4's overly simplistic "just add tonnage method," how about something that is both fast but doesn't feel like its insulting the user's intelligence.  What if customizing heatsinks was almost like choosing an engine.  You choose essentially an entire cooling system in 1 go.  Having different cooling systems with their own particular tonnages, cost, and performance specs. 

maybe each one can be rated at how much heat they bleed off immediately upon firing i.e. managing the initial heat spike, how fast they bring it down after the spike, how durable it is(if it can be targeted) and maybe how much coolant you have for flushes if you happen to have those included.

if it does take damage, it could just be that heat efficiency is parrallel to the health of your cooling system, representing various parts of its function (the individual sinks) getting popped.

that works too i guesstimate 

Science, my friend.

   I love the science going into this game!

I was just confused as to how the mechs in 3 could reach 10k degrees... I wanted something a bit more realistic.

Not really. A simple integration produces a nice linear equation, a bit of code magic and some arbitrary numbers and it works perfectly. Although, since the design doc we're working from uses CBT values for some stuff and not sure where these numbers come from for other stuff, the heat sinks have 150 square meters of surface area each for a single and are 10 times better insulators than portland cement...

why would you want them to be insulators? i thought the idea was for them to conduct and radiate heat away

ah thanks for clarifying