That's not where he's looking. The fire button is right below the target-- it's where I'll be looking, because I'll want to know the results of the shot.
whell the problem from my perspective is the deviding of information of wich weapons are going to be used and the resulting heat on two different sides of the UI.
I think the biggest problem with the overheat warning is simply that the way it flashes means that sometimes it isn't visible. Pulsing between two different bright colors would fix the real issue and wouldn't require an annoying additional click.
Actually, it probably would address the tunnel vision... because unlike the current warning, with a steady red there is no point at which you could glance at it for even a moment without the change being visible.
I'm not sure the cost of refitting a handful of 'Mechs for every mission is necessarily more expensive than soaking maintenance costs for some extra chassis, but the time required for constant refits could prove prohibitive, because the more time you spend between missions the fewer C-Bills you're bringing in before your monthly payments come due.
After giving it some thought, this makes sense to me. Differentiating between an ammo bin that's (nearly) empty, and one that's (nearly) full, for the purpose of calculating stability damage as a result of an ammo explosion, might not be attainable. The decision may have been to remove stability damage from exploding ammo bins, to prevent empty bins from "exploding" and knocking 'Mechs over.
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