#1184 Calculate BV by Geometric Mean

[Deric Page]

Originally proposed by BattleMaster on the forums:
http://megamek.info/forums/index.php?topic=1289.0

"I've been fiddling around with the BV2 balancing system lately, and I finally managed to get something to work in MegaMek. From the Battletech forums, I learned that instead of adding offensive and defensive BV together, they should be computed as a geometric mean as presented on the Battletech forums and now here: BV = 2 * (OBV * DBV) ^ 0.5"

[Deric Page]

Added with [r9997].

I had to make a small change, however. In some cases it's possible for the geometric mean to produce a BV of 0. This happens on units that either have no armor or no weapons, which makes OBV or DBV 0. In this case, it reverts back to the official BV calculation.

[BATTLEMASTER]

Thank you for implementing this feature, Deric! I'm glad that you caught the zero BV calculation - I had no idea!

[Anonymous]

I just tested the latest build with this patch in, and the option doesn't seem to be working. I deleted units.cache and restarted MegaMek with the option enabled, but the BV calculation didn't change for any unit.

[Anonymous]

I tried this option, and the unit BV updates for units already added to the player's army list, but doesn't change in the unit selection dialog box.