The Mech Touch novel Chapter 3181

Chapter 3181: Outlived Usefulness

Ves put the issue of masterworks aside for the moment. He was too far away from making a deliberate masterwork. Though he already possessed a considerable advantage due to his prior successes, the base chance of creating a masterwork was still low for him. The only instances where he came close was if the stars aligned.

In this circumstance, he should stop dreaming and focus on more attainable goals.

"The first expert mechs of our expert pilots don't have to be masterworks."

While it certainly helped with accelerating their progress, they weren't essential until the expert pilots had reached the limits of their progression. If they were on the cusp of becoming an ace pilot, then there were other factors that also determined whether they could break through. They were not completely hopeless.

Still, if Ves wanted the Larkinson Clan to grow stronger and field ace pilots that were the only adequate choice to fight against other ace pilots, then he should not forget about this matter entirely.

"Currently, our expert pilots are still in the early stages, so they don't need any extra assistance. It is only when they approach the stage of Patriarch Reginald Cross that they truly need a masterwork to help them advance."

It would take many years or even decades before people like Venerable Joshua and Venerable Jannzi reached that point. Ves would probably be a much better mech designer by then, so any solutions he came up now would probably be hopelessly outdated in the future.

There were four major benefits of making a masterwork expert mech this early.

First, Ves and any mech designer involved in its creation gained an increased affinity for mechs that measurably improved the quality of their subsequent mech designs.

Second, masterwork mechs performed better in battle. Even the smallest difference could tip a duel in the favor of the Larkinson Clan, so Ves did not look down on any gain no matter how little had actually changed.

Third, mech pilots progressed much faster when paired with a mech that was closer to their level of extraordinary status. Senfovon's Ladder of Craftsmanship essentially implied that each of the four rungs of the ladder corresponded to the different ranks of mech pilots.

"Maybe that's also why they think that there is a fourth rung. The first one corresponds to regular mech pilots, the second one to expert pilots and the third one to ace pilots. Since we know that god pilots exist, there has to be a standard of mechs that fully compliment their own strength and capabilities."

Fourth, the Design Department didn't have to start a new expert mech design project that was expensive, time-consuming, troublesome and had a high chance of failing to achieve masterwork status.

All in all, everyone still benefited hugely for every masterwork expert mech the Design Department managed to make in this early stage of the Larkinson Clan.

"I'll just see where our next projects will take us." He decided.

From his own experiences, any project completed shortly after a successful masterwork mech creation usually turned into duds.

Part of that had to do with lack of accumulation. Over the course of designing his mechs, Ves encountered many problems which he wasn't able to solve but always lingered in his mind. By piling them up, his brain became filled with so many different ideas that all of them started to blend and mix. At a critical moment, the dam eventually burst and all of these started to fall into place and make sense.

It was difficult to describe this phenomenon, but Ves vaguely thought that it would not be possible for him to make another masterwork mech unless he completed more projects the regular way.

Work on the mech design projects resumed. Right now, Ves and his wife decided to work on the Vanguard Project and the Decapitator Project at the same time.

They both had a lot of elements in common. They were melee offensive expert mechs that possessed relatively balanced parameters and faced many of the same threats. Many of the solutions developed for one of the expert mech designs could also be applied to the other one after a bit of adaptation.

That said, the two projects had plenty of differences.

The Vanguard Project possessed a bulkier frame as it required more all-round protection in order to crash into and crack open prepared enemy formations.

Whether it fought in space, in the skies or on land, the Vanguard Project was supposed to embody its code name and lead the charge against the enemy! _{frёewebηovel.cѳm}

As a result, the Vanguard Project sacrificed both speed and agility in favor of obtaining better protection. There was only one issue that constrained the ambitions of the mech designers.

"We don't have enough Unending alloy to offer thick and solid projection over the entire frame of our expert spearman mech. It is an excellent material, but we don't have enough to make liberal use of this material." Gloriana noted to an audience of recently-recruited assistant mech designers who were ready to perform some light and easy tasks in the design labs.

She pointed at a projection that highlighted multiple layers of external surfaces.

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