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[X] Toulon Training Area: In the heart of the French weapons industrial area, you can't help but to trip over people interested in mecha.
[X] Introductory Testing: Find out how much your mecha sucks via the time-honored tradition of throwing a greenhorn in the cockpit and making him keep up with your test pilots.
 
[X] Toulon Training Area: In the heart of the French weapons industrial area, you can't help but to trip over people interested in mecha.
[X] Introductory Testing: Find out how much your mecha sucks via the time-honored tradition of throwing a greenhorn in the cockpit and making him keep up with your test pilots.
So far, everything looks pretty good. We have some degree of reliability and refinement of the design, we have an old and relatively cheap engine, as well as a clear pleasant structural integrity in the ability to move on 66% of the legs.
Foolproof is a pretty important thing for us. After all, if the "old reliable car with slightly above-average performance" is easy to drive, the army will probably go with us. After all, this is the army, not the Air Force, they don't want perfect weapons, but a lot of good ones.
 
[X] Toulon Training Area: In the heart of the French weapons industrial area, you can't help but to trip over people interested in mecha.
[X] Introductory Testing: Find out how much your mecha sucks via the time-honored tradition of throwing a greenhorn in the cockpit and making him keep up with your test pilots.
 
Are we trying to make improvements at this point or secure a contract? I'm guessing secure a contract.

The reason I ask is to determine what we should focus on here. If we're still making improvements, a good testing facility would help. If we're just securing a contract, testing near home (and making the others test near us) doesn't really have downsides. Similarly, if we're just trying to sell the thing, we want to take tests we'll definitely pass, whereas if we want to find issues to improve, we want to take tests we're less sure about.
 
[X] Toulon Training Area: In the heart of the French weapons industrial area, you can't help but to trip over people interested in mecha.
[X] Introductory Testing: Find out how much your mecha sucks via the time-honored tradition of throwing a greenhorn in the cockpit and making him keep up with your test pilots.

Going with this too. Being simple to operate seems to be one of our mech's strength right now. Let's see how true that is.
 
[X] Toulon Training Area: In the heart of the French weapons industrial area, you can't help but to trip over people interested in mecha.
[X] Introductory Testing: Find out how much your mecha sucks via the time-honored tradition of throwing a greenhorn in the cockpit and making him keep up with your test pilots.

@7734 I feel like Montrove would be perfect for testing Special Forces mechs.
 
[X] Toulon Training Area: In the heart of the French weapons industrial area, you can't help but to trip over people interested in mecha.
[X] Introductory Testing: Find out how much your mecha sucks via the time-honored tradition of throwing a greenhorn in the cockpit and making him keep up with your test pilots.
 
[X] Toulon Training Area: In the heart of the French weapons industrial area, you can't help but to trip over people interested in mecha.
[X] Introductory Testing: Find out how much your mecha sucks via the time-honored tradition of throwing a greenhorn in the cockpit and making him keep up with your test pilots.
I agree with the reasoning, we're not quite important enough much intriguewise just yet.
 
[X] Toulon Training Area: In the heart of the French weapons industrial area, you can't help but to trip over people interested in mecha.
[X] Endurance Testing: find out how long, how far, and how quickly you can push your mechas.
 
[X] Toulon Training Area: In the heart of the French weapons industrial area, you can't help but to trip over people interested in mecha.
[X] Introductory Testing: Find out how much your mecha sucks via the time-honored tradition of throwing a greenhorn in the cockpit and making him keep up with your test pilots
 
[X] Toulon Training Area: In the heart of the French weapons industrial area, you can't help but to trip over people interested in mecha.
[X] Endurance Testing: find out how long, how far, and how quickly you can push your mechas.
 
[X] La Rochelle Testing Center: Working next to the Navy brings pros and cons, but in the end it's the least busy place to do a test right now
[X] Endurance Testing: find out how long, how far, and how quickly you can push your mechas.

Look, I'm a ship lover, completely biased, and I don't care.
 
[X] Toulon Training Area: In the heart of the French weapons industrial area, you can't help but to trip over people interested in mecha.
[X] Endurance Testing: find out how long, how far, and how quickly you can push your mechas.
 
UwU said:
Look, I'm a ship lover, completely biased, and I don't care.
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Not the worst place for an endurance test. With all the beaches and salt-water humidity, we can find out how long our machine can go before something gets in the joints.


[X] Toulon Training Area: In the heart of the French weapons industrial area, you can't help but to trip over people interested in mecha.
[X] Introductory Testing: Find out how much your mecha sucks via the time-honored tradition of throwing a greenhorn in the cockpit and making him keep up with your test pilots

Personally going to go with this, and maybe, one of the green horns knows if anyone has a better gun to mount.
 
[X] Toulon Training Area: In the heart of the French weapons industrial area, you can't help but to trip over people interested in mecha.
[X] Endurance Testing: find out how long, how far, and how quickly you can push your mechas.
 
Per the guideline as to the mecha design process, this seems like the last stage, and I'm not sure we get to make further mods. If not, I'd rather do endurance testing as it's showing off what's probably our best trait. But I guess that'll be revealed in the update.
 
[X] La Rochelle Testing Center: Working next to the Navy brings pros and cons, but in the end it's the least busy place to do a test right now
[X] Endurance Testing: find out how long, how far, and how quickly you can push your mechas.
 
commando2341 said:
Is this the only round of field testing we'll do?
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This is the round of testing with the most freedom of choice. There will be a second round of testing avalible since I cut two or three updates out of this contest cycle since this mecha is so bone-simple.

Melifaro said:
So far, everything looks pretty good. We have some degree of reliability and refinement of the design, we have an old and relatively cheap engine, as well as a clear pleasant structural integrity in the ability to move on 66% of the legs.
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One, you have a cutting-edge engine that H-S is pushing to everyone since that's what they do; and two, you don't have structural integrity to move on 2/3 available legs, you have reserve actuator capacity to move on 2/3 listed legs. When I rolled up the various actuator contractors, both options were pretty damn good. Barring the end-of-contest vote giving you an esoteric workaround or revolutionary new tech, you can absolutely run the next contest (infantry support assault vehicle) on the same hardware.

googlyeyesultra said:
Are we trying to make improvements at this point or secure a contract? I'm guessing secure a contract.
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You're making improvements. When contract test time comes around, you'll be watching the testing and I'll write it up, and then votes will be for 'in the shed' modifications you're trying to sneak around the procurement team to get a little better score next to the other contestants.

Warmach1ne32 said:
@7734 I feel like Montrove would be perfect for testing Special Forces mechs.
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Montrove, being a racer, actually prefers his mecha with a fair amount of deliberate instability. That instability makes it easier to throw the mecha into corners and control acceleration, at the cost of making a lot of other maneuvers a lot harder. If this was Atompunk, he'd be one of the guys yelling FLY BY WIRE FLY BY WIRE FLY BY WIRE and saying Sparky is a god.
 
[X] Toulon Training Area: In the heart of the French weapons industrial area, you can't help but to trip over people interested in mecha.
[X] Endurance Testing: find out how long, how far, and how quickly you can push your mechas.

Navy? Bah! We don't need no stinking Squids on this test program!
 
Strypgia said:
We don't need no stinking Squids on this test program!
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Funny, because Toulon area is heavily invested in the Airbus mantra of modular, airdropped. Where you test the intermediate mecha build stages is going to require closed access, such as submerged or in a ship hangar. Going for naval / endurance bid like Happery there.

[X] La Rochelle Testing Center: Working next to the Navy brings pros and cons, but in the end it's the least busy place to do a test right now
[X] Endurance Testing: find out how long, how far, and how quickly you can push your mechas
 
Axslashel said:
As far as I know Toulon is actually the main french naval base. The squids will show up to watch whether you like it or not. :V
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For the Med fleet (read: the important one), yes. That's the key, really: they're too busy minding their business and glaring at the pasta to bug you. La Rochelle, however, is the main port for the long distance fleets that handle the far-out colonies, and are therefore very bored. IIRC, and this is kinda iffy, the rest of the fleet was based out of Brest so they had best access to the Channel and the North Sea.
 
[X] Toulon Training Area: In the heart of the French weapons industrial area, you can't help but to trip over people interested in mecha.
[X] Introductory Testing: Find out how much your mecha sucks via the time-honored tradition of throwing a greenhorn in the cockpit and making him keep up with your test pilots.
 
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Adhoc vote count started by 7734 on May 10, 2021 at 10:48 PM, finished with 30 posts and 23 votes.
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