It's the same thing as with warships.
The USS Iowa is a she. The USS Enterpise is also a she. The USS Gerald R. Ford? Definitely a woman.
The shipping is implied by the thing I just talked about.
...Technically, I have to accept that.
Building a reactor for Basilisk would still be cheaper and faster than upgrading a Mk3 Jaeger to Mk4, since Basilisk would already have the stats of a Mk4. As for Gipsy, we are most likely going to fight Anaklusmos anyway, so thats not that much of a obstacle.
You're assuming none of its stats have been impacted by the damage. More to the point, if we give them a Mark IV, we might get more Frames overall. They'd probably prefer the higher quality Frames anyways. Since we have to give KRAUN some of the Jaegers, I really don't see a reason to keep Basilisk, if they're interested in it.
I vehemently disagree with this outlook. These are Jaegers that fought and were "killed" in the service of humanity. They deserve better than to be considered mere pieces that can be made into something else. They deserve being rebuilt to be in their own style, to be updated with our better equipment so they can once again serve humanity in its darkest hours. It would be like turning Tacit Ronin into a different Jaeger after it got mission killed.
in short I will definitively oppose any proposed refit for a fallen Jaeger that is not an evolution of its original style.
Elysium Praetor was a special case, because it wasn't a Jaeger that defended humanity against the Kaiju, it was an enemy.
Fine. That's your prerogative. Build designs for them that gets more support than any rivaling designs, and we'll use them. But be forewarned that you're likely to cheese off a fair portion of the players who will now have to wait exponentially longer to see their creations come to life because of it.
Personally, I wasn't really expecting any of the Jaegers in the Bay to even remotely match any of my bizarre ass designs...until I learned more about Kabuto, and found out he might actually work for Titan. I had kinda resigned myself to not seeing my designs used in any reasonable timeframe up until then. And I'm probably not alone there. So don't be surprised when people fight you tooth and nail on this, because you're putting the theoretical honor of non-canon Jaegers above the feelings of your fellow questers.
Like, I get the sentiment. It would not surprise me if you end up getting a ton of support just because of it. But at the same time, you're also kinda doing a number of your fellow players dirty, and forcing them to choose between seeming/feeling "selfish" for want to see their creations come to life no matter what, or to give in to the pressure, and potentially never see any of the Jaegers they designed in action.
I disliked when a similar sort of sentiment influenced how people built Jaegers before I saw the original source material. Something kinda similar was the basis for some of the pushback against Revolver way back when, because it didn't seem enough like a Jaeger to some. I, meanwhile, saw nothing wrong with Revolver as a basic concept, though I would have built it differently. I thought it looked pretty decent. Since then, I've seen the original source material, and really enjoyed it. But I find I still really dislike it when "tradition" or "honor" or "pride" or whatever you'd call this sentiment stands in the way of other people's creativity and goals.
Sorry to get up on a soapbox and bring up old arguments. It's just a school of thought I see in the thread that really frustrates me sometimes. Even though I understand where you're coming from, it still rubs me the wrong way. Maybe I'm just too utilitarian, but it doesn't seem like a useful concept to me if it stops us from doing what we wanted to do in the first place. But whatever, I'm willing to leave it to a competition between builds. If you build something I think is better than the competition, I'll back it. If not, then I won't. I just wish I felt like other people would do the same, without this sort of sentiment getting involved.
Also...you know what? I agree with this.
...*sigh*
...I'ma take a break from the thread for a bit and go gather Legos so I can make an actual, physical map for our next fight. Sick of flying blind. Had the idea this morning. Basically, build a map of the battle field using a flat baseplate, and 2x2 bricks/pillars of bricks for our units and the enemy. Still need to find out if we have enough purple bricks in the house for Revolver and Jagdhund...
Edit: Also, what's Phenom's secondary color, again? I know black's the primary.
