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[Parisbre56]

Got another idea on how to protect battlesuits from paint attacks. Apply a varnish over it that is electrically conductive and dissolves when a sufficient electrical current goes through it. A better solution would probably be the ability to somehow vibrate the cameras at high speed.

Also, someone might want to try the effectiveness of the goop thrower when faced with various extremes,  like cold, fire or electricity.

[Toaster]

A better solution would probably be the ability to somehow vibrate the cameras at high speed.

Call it the [INTENSIFIES] module.

[Radio Controlled]

Got another idea on how to protect battlesuits from paint attacks. Apply a varnish over it that is electrically conductive and dissolves when a sufficient electrical current goes through it. A better solution would probably be the ability to somehow vibrate the cameras at high speed.

Also, someone might want to try the effectiveness of the goop thrower when faced with various extremes,  like cold, fire or electricity.

Other idea: few films of plastic or whatever over main optical clusters that you can easily rip of, thereby clearing it of paint.

Might not mesh well with electrical defense system...

[yobbo]

Give it eyelids and a blink reflex?

[Beirus]

' Synthflesh City'

It's like Circuit City in the future.

[Radio Controlled]

Give it eyelids and a blink reflex?

A mechanical cover could work, provided it can detect incoming 'projectiles' and close its cover fast enough. And might not be as reliable with certain compounds (eg if goop thrower is used then a cover won't help much).

[Dorsidwarf]

Windscreen wipers.

[Parisbre56]

Make it synthflesh and give it cameyes. Or have them be organic and grown in fleshpits.

[Nikitian]

Spoiler: More on ranks (click to show/hide)

Looking at what is going on with M18 currently, I'd say it is one more reason to have certain 'advisors'/'supervisors' to oversee all missions, as I suggested. Particularly with Steve orchestrating missions like these, with no defined leadership beforehand, so far no one is up to address mission plan as a whole and make necessary adjustments and request supplies. That is why, perhaps, such positions are not only optional and volunteer-based, but perhaps even necessary. Of course, that is if we seek competence through organisation and preparation.
It is curious to see that the leadership discussion, so far, has exactly outlined and followed the three 'natural' veterancy (non-officer) ranks suggested (with the first being the Novices, I mean). It probably means that adding more (in between the squad leader rank and Novice rank) is counter-intuitive and best avoided. So no, either we have Hazards and Immediate Hazards put aside for two additional ranks (functionaly near-identical to Regulars and Adepts, but taken with negative reliability). Or indeed srap the Hazard designation into a separate category altogether, and allow them to be Regulars and Adepts, as intended.
Personally, I don't feel like using the latter variant, as it strikes against the 'competency' chords I connected to the Adept rank, but it could be, nonetheless. Oh, just an idea: why not take example of mathematics (algebra, specifically) and add '...Hazard' to the rank designation (as the minus sign)? It would create two semi-distinct ranks of Regular Hazard and Adept Hazard (Hazard Adept? Hazard Regular?), which would share the same position in the overall ladder with their more stable twins. That way they'd remain distinct, while not compromising the whole scheme and structure of the ranks system. And while their bearers will enjoy the half-nonexistant 'seniority' of their ranks, no one would miss for a second the '... Hazard' part of their rank, clearly displayed wherever their rank could be seen.

All in all, I am not opposed to polls and abiding by 'tyranny of majority', it's just I'd prefer to find ways to incorporate everyone's ideas into the system, rather than make people decide between them. Sort of finding a 'golden mean' compromise.

[PyroDesu]

Perhaps the satellites are hidden in the void, and thus 'follow' you everywhere?
Also, why not just put in on the player market? If anyone wants it, they'd contact you.

Oh, and I would really ask you not to point the weapon at the Sword or at the planet. You know, accidentally and missing the mark a bit too much. Sure it's 'only' a square, as far as power is concerned, but things that can will go utterly wrong, with Murphy or without, as we learned with artillery support during the Defense.

I'll note that power isn't the only thing coded by the shape. The number of sides is significant in two ways.

Which, Pan, is why I said square and not pentagon, for example.

And to the curious, look on the catalog of nyartefacts on the wiki and spot differences other than power between shapes. It's there, though I knew what I was looking for before I looked.

[sambojin]

Maybe some backup scout eyes for the battlesuit? Ones with tiny little sponges and squeegies attached to them? Your suit would always look shiny and bling. Plus, in your downtime, you could seek employment as a window cleaner to pay off the suit costs.

But scout eyes would be pretty handy for their non-cleaning, non-voyeur functions as well, and they're pretty cheap.

[Beirus]

I wonder if the box shape also dictates the severity of the side effects, since boxes of shapes with more sides seem to produce items with more pronounced side effects. Side effects in this case being effects produced in the process of making the device work properly, or as a result of the device's intended function, like Shackle challenges or the void suit attracting Timmy.

[kj1225]

So, thanks to whoever edited the wiki to add my newest acquisitions. I was just about to do that.

[Nikitian]

I'll note that power isn't the only thing coded by the shape. The number of sides is significant in two ways.

Which, Pan, is why I said square and not pentagon, for example.

And to the curious, look on the catalog of nyartefacts on the wiki and spot differences other than power between shapes. It's there, though I knew what I was looking for before I looked.

Would it be possible for you to disclose your theory? Because I cannot see the damned second meaning (even with the first not fully proved) to the shapes. Hmmm. Age of the artifact, perhaps?
Also, what is your stance on circles in the overall shapes system? Mathematician in me screams at placing them below triangles for 'not having enough sides'.

I wonder if the box shape also dictates the severity of the side effects, since boxes of shapes with more sides seem to produce items with more pronounced side effects. Side effects in this case being effects produced in the process of making the device work properly, or as a result of the device's intended function, like Shackle challenges or the void suit attracting Timmy.

As for myself, for some time I've been following a theory that it is the line that determines the fuck-up/user danger potential, with vertical lines being just short of actively malicious artifacts, horizontal ones being mostly benevolent or at least not too dangerous to the user, and diagonal ones being somewhere in the middle, denoting potentially dangerous artifacts, which are, however, not actively harmful to the user by design, only by mistake and misuse. One of the reasons I am still hesitant to check the contents of the Bag, by the way.
No line at all might mean absolutely safe ones, though the evidence is slim; perhaps they are also often somewhat stunted in power compared to the three line-bearing types. Again, not enough evidence.

[Parisbre56]

One could say that any veto Morul has with Gorat's leadership might be quite shocking.