Wearable Structures

Radix

This isn't referring to a mechanic that would look like this:

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Rather I mean that instead of all marine upgrading functioning as:

"Drop Structure->Build Structure->Research Upgrade->Drop Equipment->Pick Up Equipment"

Consider (if it wouldn't damage the teams' differentiation too badly):

"Drop Equipment (unbuilt)->Research Equipment->Pick Up Equipment" where if the player died, the entire structure died with him (or not, depending on the upgrade).

I just like the idea because it gives an option to pressure at more risk and cost than the relatively passive upgrade structure that currently exists.

<!--coloro:lime--><span style="color:lime"><!--/coloro-->By no means<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc--> do away with the existing structure, this is proposed only as an addition.

EDIT: Perhaps this would be a good implementation for the previously suggested Phase Suit?

CanadianWolverine

I am not sure I understand the idea at all. Are you proposing the use of carrying structures, wearing structures, prototyping equipment, and possibly losing it all to a single marine death?

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