"When should the head space on the .50 Cal machine gun be checked?"...........
OK, how's this sound.
I have a large patch to produce for MBT and it will be released in the next 10 days. There is a small patch for WW2 that will follow at the end of the month and then both Andy and I are taking a bit of a break. It would appear on the surface that perhaps you may have a point but before I simply charge in and make changes I have to review ALL 20 mm guns in the game and ALL 12.7/50.cal type weapons and ensure that whatever I decide *MAY* need changing doesn't in fact cause another post like this to pop up later on from an equally disgruntled soul with a new axe to grind
However, The chance of that happening this April is somewhat similar to a snowballs chance in hell but rest assured I will keep this on file someplace and if/when we decide to carry on forward it will be looked into
However.....
I will refer you to the MOBHack help section that details how things are put together. Specifically the "Multiple Weapons" section
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Single slots that are meant to represent more than one multiple of a weapon use the following multipliers:
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2x is 1.5x HEK
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3x is 1.75x HEK
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4x is 1.875x HEK
So when a weapon has an HEK value of 10, and you want to convert it to a twin weapon (for example a single and a twin AA gun) you would multiply the HEK by 1.5 to have a total HEK of 15.
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Now perhaps someone has tweaked either of these guns at some point but the single 50 cal AAMG is an HEK 11 and that times 1.87 = 20.57 so rounded up it should have 21 and not 22 but this is why just changing things becasue someone says it should be done is "problematic". The single german 20mm flak is rated 10 HEK and 10x1.87 =18.7 rounded up it should be 19 not 18 so at most by our own processes we are 1 too high for the 50 cal quad and one two low for the 20mm quad so at the very least I will someday look at correcting that in all the OOB's that use those weapons.
HOWEVER what you perhaps have forgotten is that in the game a gun with.......lets say a 18HEK.... and a warhead of 2 does somewhat more damage to a target than a gun with a warhead of 1 and the an HEK of 22 so simply looking at HEK numbers and saying we are out of line is in itself, out of line. The bigger the warhead the more damage it causes. A very important point to remember.
Don