I just want to make sure the players have fun and increasingly they seem bored or not sure what to do.
They are bored. I'm bored
Lyra is designed to be a scout.
Lyra has no armor - therefore she is not allowed to scout.
Armor is overpowered to hell, so I refuse to give Lyra armor.
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Lyra never will be allowed to fill her role.
also, we never use scouting. but that's because of the mission types we get and how we always have orbital surveilance or it's an anomoly mission so we always move in a giant ball of guns because to be isolated is to die from passive terrain-hazards that aren't visibly threatening and so scouting is both useless because it won't detect the threats and suicidal because the scout is isolating themselves and will be passive-attacked no matter how stealthy and cautious they are.
also, putting a military-style chain of command in a game like this utterly destroys the gameplay value because anyone who isn't at the top (read: 95% of players) don't get to make decisions that actually matter. on this note, Miya can go to hell. He's doing the smart thing, but the smart thing also makes the game no fun. This is especially true because the pissbag has access to the character's implants, giving him an excuse to know-all, and the ability to prevent anyone from doing anything he doesn't approve of. The arguemnt RC and I had in the trial thread shouldn't have even been possible to have. Miya is a sack of shit that is making the game no fun to play simply by existing, and for this sin Miya (not RC) has earned Lenglon's (not Lyra's) eternal ire.
I miss the HMRC when players were actually allowed to play the god damn game. ARM isn't fun
I
may have some standing rage over this issue. sorry if I went overboard here.