What's the consensus on the enhancing equipment? I didn't really test them out thoroughly; the intent was that they should make the undersized gnomes be a reasonable match in combat with the larger races and be worth the complex means of attaining them, but not to turn them into game-breaking powerhouses. Think they need to be toned down somewhat?
I love them, so much.
It seems they are actually pretty close to being balanced, at least top end. Fully decked out and fully trained, you can generally cause some havoc, but no more so than other races.
Some of them are kind of weak, though, or very gimmicky. Like the helmet that defends against mind control or whatever...very small range of usefulness. Others are just kind of nobrainers...Motorized Pants are way better than the alternatives. Gutsy Pants and automated pants are both solved by a Clockwork Helmet.
Exoskeleton is also rendered nearly useless because of the Clockwork Helmet. It's slight improvements over the clockwork helmet are nowhere near worth the cost of 20% reduced skills and "muscles may atrophy". It also isn't worth losing the 50% agility bonus, or even the 50% strength bonus from other chest pieces. It also prevents training...you just get the "Individual Combat Drill/Resting" that I always get with skeletons...and they gain no skills, just stand there.
Clockwork Armor is also useless because endurance has no point with a Clockwork Helmet.
The various "stay alive without a head" pieces also seem kind of pointless. If you can never move again, what's the point of keeping them alive? And won't they eventually just get killed by whatever ripped off their head anyway?
Boots are also weird. The first tier, spring heals, give a net of 93% (1.25 speed * .75 skills). The next tier gives a net of 100% (2 speed * .5 skills), the last tier gives a 40% net (4 speed * .1 skills). Seems like an odd progression. The hoops you have to jump through to get civilians to actually use rocket boots off duty also really hurts the potential.
Lack of gloves make me sad.
I also suggest maybe changing the special attacks to gloves. Currently, you can just equip multiple shields and gain all of the special attacks. Can use a smart guard while also having an Ion caster, and a fireball caster, etc.
