To be entirely honest, I don't much like the things that seem to 'come out of nowhere' so to speak. I mean, (most) people limited their designs to things that have some reason to exist in ER, such as by being based from gathered artifacts, but now it seems that just about anything is possible by handwaving at it. Makes going out on dangerous missions to find artifacts to reverse-engineer a bit pointless.
Matter saver, 5 second reset and solid light came from the god computer.
Ghost blade and white hot club from the snowglobe data and Simus' suit
Haebi limb from...the haebi.
So basically, now if items can do strange stuff not obviously based on an artifact the reason now is 'because god computer' instead of 'because amps'? Fair enough, allows some playing room for sure. And allows you to differentiate exo much more from uncon.
There'd be an interesting Limbo diversion or alternate mission thread; split into small teams of "random ARM trooper" mode, where you're set on a planet with a predetermined gear list and a temporary character, given a vague objective, and told to go nuts.
"Do you see that dense metropolitan area over there?"
"Yes?"
"It's blocking my sun. Fix that."
Well, amps and manips are changing in general so I don't expect the UWM to use them much anymore, so it's not that much of a problem.
Gotta suck to be an amp specialist right about now. You train your whole life to do 1 thing, just 1 thing, really well, and then some doohickeys screw it all up.
On a related note, I have no idea why it is putting me in this mode. I'm in editing mode on the account that made the document. Hell, no one is even supposed to be able to edit it except me, I just turned on commenting. Google docs is kinda pissing me off because I have no idea why it is doing this.
You could just copy-paste the data into a new document and delete the old one if it bothers you, see if that works or just repeats the error.
Lars and his id can try to out-zealous each other!
A positive feedback loop of piety!
Mission 23 could place themselves on one of their ships, get them all into space, and sit there until the government gives in to their demands. you wanna repossess our ships? Come 'n get 'em!
@RC When will you already complete the character arc of your Avatar? Name him, talk to him, make friends and learn his true goals? We've been waiting on it ... for years, I think! Longer than the ARM has existed, at the very least.
Because I've had no chance to bring it up in an organic way on a mission, and I want to get that gene treatment that increases defense versus alien mindscrew before I do it deliberatly on ship.
But hey, the longer the wait, all the sweeter when it happens.