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[Nikitian]

Well, I thought they were fine and complete by the time Tinker froze. Anyway, Syvarris should be able to give all the answers pertaining the assaultsuit.

[Radio Controlled]

There was some unclarity about what bonusses it'd get due to using one of Miya's new exoskeletons.

[syvarris]

Spoiler: Can we get something like this for gauss rifles? (click to show/hide)

Fired out of a gauss rifle, they'll be about as nonlethal as a rubberized 80mm cannon shell.

Technically, shouldn't it be pretty simple to just dial back the power put into the shot?  The current-issue Gauss weapons probably don't have that ability, but we should really remake all the gauss weapons with power dials.  They should all have subsonic options, at the least.

@Toaster

I think we're just gonna prototype one Assaultsuit this mission, since it isn't in the armory, and the MMI (which it relies on) is also being prototyped.

You reminded me that this wasn't answered:

Question: What happens to the various battlesuit-improvements that have been made?

The current battlesuit was given a +2 AUX requirement, which cheapened it down to 15 tokens.  But both the Assaultsuit and Heavy Robotic Body are designed to work directly off the user's mental input, so they probably wouldn't need to have an AUX requirement, and therefore wouldn't get the discount.

The Assaultsuit could just be retconned to not have an MMI, and work by the same mechanism as a battlesuit, but what about the Heavy Robotic Body?  It costs 16 or 18 tokens at the cheapest, but is almost entirely inferior to the AS, except for not needing AUX and being smaller.

Also, several of the robotic body upgrades that you described being available are already built into the Heavy Robotic Body.  Sometimes, they're no much cheaper than it.  Would that mean the HRB needs an int requirement?

As far as exoskeleton bonuses, that's not an issue for the assaultsuit- it probably means that assaultsuits are just stronger than battlesuits to an arbitrary degree.  It's only an issue for the medium infantry armor, and even then it can just be justified as the reason why exoskeletons are cheaper now; We used the tech that doubles exoskeleton strength to make exoskeletons half the size and cost but with the same strength.

[Xantalos]

Eeeeeerrrrgh. I'm suddenly unsure what to specialize in. I know I have to have high Will and Med for what I need to do, but what else for actual combat things?
Hmmmmmmmmmmm

[Comrade P.]

A brief reminder that I called dibs on testing Heavy Robot Body in the upcoming mission, on planet.

[Radio Controlled]

A brief reminder that I called dibs on testing Heavy Robot Body in the upcoming mission, on planet.

And I friendly remind back that there is no dibs on this system, it'll depend on need. But your preference is noted!

As far as exoskeleton bonuses, that's not an issue for the assaultsuit- it probably means that assaultsuits are just stronger than battlesuits to an arbitrary degree.  It's only an issue for the medium infantry armor, and even then it can just be justified as the reason why exoskeletons are cheaper now; We used the tech that doubles exoskeleton strength to make exoskeletons half the size and cost but with the same strength.

Might want to check if we can't give them a sort of dex 'bonus' (not numerical but implied, like the strength) to make a standard assaultsuit with the new skeleton be as dexterous as, say, a melee battlesuit.

[Parisbre56]

You might want to rephrase that. Since when is a battlesuit dexterous? Do you mean quick?

[Radio Controlled]

More dexterous than the current one should be possible. And the melee variant has good mobility (though it also has small rockets to help with that).

[Kriellya]

Okay then, I'll edit the wiki template and the character calculator to allow that then.

This also means that if my calculations are correct, I just need one more mission to make Flint a master in conventional weapons. And Beirus' character to give him back those tokens he owes him.

Good luck with that. Let us know when the template is done so we can start transferring stuff over

PW, should I convert my custom mod to a "Enhanced Capacity" Med mod, or would you rather do something more elaborate?

This is how we have the mod listed in the old system:: (Dynamic Medical bonus; Rolls Willpower if nearby person is injured.)

[PyroDesu]

I'm loving some of the new stuff re: robobodies and gene therapy.

A pity I can't get on IRC to chat about it all. I think my university blocks IRC activity, I've gotten nothing but time-outs when I try to connect no matter how I troubleshoot.

[Execute/Dumbo.exe]

I'm loving some of the new stuff re: robobodies and gene therapy.

A pity I can't get on IRC to chat about it all. I think my university blocks IRC activity, I've gotten nothing but time-outs when I try to connect no matter how I troubleshoot.

Hey, where do you time out?
Because there are actually multiple types of chat programs, IRC is kinda the hub for it, for example, I go by the ER link (which uses Mibbit) while PW uses HydraIRC.
I don't know how it works, but it does.

[Kriellya]

I'm loving some of the new stuff re: robobodies and gene therapy.

A pity I can't get on IRC to chat about it all. I think my university blocks IRC activity, I've gotten nothing but time-outs when I try to connect no matter how I troubleshoot.

Hm. Step 1 would be to try an actual client rather than a webclient, if you haven't already. I'm personally big on hexchat, but HydraIRC is another one. Step 2 would be try to use a proxy. It's kind of unusual for universities to blanket-block things like that, but I wouldn't put it past them... some network administrators don't know when to quit

I don't know how it works, but it does.

Magic. Which is programmer speak for 'IRC is a protocol, not a program'. Much like how TCP/IP works, despite everyone having different network interfaces.

[PyroDesu]

I'm loving some of the new stuff re: robobodies and gene therapy.

A pity I can't get on IRC to chat about it all. I think my university blocks IRC activity, I've gotten nothing but time-outs when I try to connect no matter how I troubleshoot.

Hey, where do you time out?
Because there are actually multiple types of chat programs, IRC is kinda the hub for it, for example, I go by the ER link (which uses Mibbit) while PW uses HydraIRC.
I don't know how it works, but it does.

I use Chatzilla for Firefox, it times out when I try to connect to darkmyst, the server our room is hosted on. I quote the log:

[INFO]   Connecting to irc://irc.darkmyst.org/ (irc://irc.darkmyst.org/)… [Cancel]
   [ERROR]   Connection to irc://irc.darkmyst.org/ (irc://irc.darkmyst.org/) timed out. [Help] Reconnecting in 15 seconds. [Cancel]

And from there it infinite loops with the reconnect timer getting longer every time.

[Parisbre56]

@Pyro: I was getting a lot of timeouts when I tried connecting to irc.darkmyst.org through SSL with Chatzilla. It stopped when I selected a specific server (odyssey.de.eu.darkmyst.org). Are you trying anything similar?

@Kri: I fought with the character calculator page a bit, thinking changing it will be easy, until I realized that radio buttons do not trigger the "on input" event for the entire table row (they need the onchange event to be attached to them instead) and they do not trigger an event at all when deselected. So I'm probably going to have to roll all the functions into one mega function that is triggered by every single input by an "on input" event for the number boxes and an "on change" event for the radio buttons. I'm not going to do that tonight, probably tomorrow. Wiki template should be an easy fix (just need to add an extra if and copypaste it a few times) but it's a bit tedious, so again, tomorrow.

[Yoink]

Ooo, I'm getting a real cyberpunk vibe from those synthflesh/robobody mods.
I need to get at least one arm blown off. And make the money to buy them, of course.

...So is everything finalized? I guess after I have a toast sandwich for breakfast I'll go re-re-do my sheet.