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mousepad:
made myself a mousepad out of cardboard, magazine paper, paper mache(sp?), small piece of painting canvas, tape, and several coats of glaze. at 1st i didn't have the canvas, and the magazine paper and cardboard wasn't hard and flat enough to for the mouse to glide smoothly on it. never realised a painting canvas would make such a good surface for a mousepad. it's hard enough, flat, and has a consistent texture. it actually looks/feels a lot like the 16 dollar mousepad i saw in a harvey norman store, which is suppose to be best for optical mouses. the piece of canvas cost just 2 dollars.

mechwarrior4:
ahhh... much better control with a decent mousepad. played around with more configs of the madcat/timberwolf. found that i could max out the firepower gauge for a madcat, but i'll have to almost halven(sp?) its armour and reduce its speed to almost minimum, about 70kmph. the effect was devastating. with max-ed out firepower, it could take out most mecs in about 30 seconds, if none of the missiles miss.

a templar with max-ed out firepower would actually be slower and have less armour than a timberwolf. i think the templar has only the advantage of higher max. armour and jumpjets. it has less omni slots than a madcat. it's overpriced.

tried the last davion mission with max-firepowered timberwolves. worked fairly well, but it's a lot more easier to get killed than when i was using a lance of atlases.really needed the allied victor mecs to distract the enemies, and take the aircraft and towers before moving in. also almost got killed trying to snipe at the mecs at the back entrance, before destroying the hangar. peter davion(in fafnir) and his victor guards will not help out with the enemies guarding the back until i've taken down the hangar.

later, i played around with the daishi/direwolf, and tried to max out its firepower gauge and beyond.can't tell if a dashit with max firepower is more durable than a one with the most highest damage weapons. the maxs firepower-ed one could take down a high-damage before it reaches it, but only if the missiles(i usually put a few long-range missiles 'cause they're very light for their 'firepower' rating) all hit the target. if the high damage gets within mid-range, it could take out the maxfired with 2 or 3 hit alpha strikes, or roughly 12-18 seconds.

then i made high-damage and max-firepowered altases. and a high-damage fafnir. i took turns controlling a lance of those atlases to fight another lance of the fafnir and the dashits(2 hi-damage,1 maxfire), and vice versa. i won in both fights, probably because the AI almost never gangs up on a single target, but just hits the closest one. i guess they're evenly matched. i did defeat the opposition slightly faster with my atlases. that must be due to their higher speed. they can engage the enemy sooner.