Quote:I've been playing a lot of FFX again the past few days, for one thing, instead of my usual check in every hour or two.
I had wondered why you were being so quiet. ^_^;
(Yes, I started over AGAIN, to do the character builds differently AGAIN, and, YET AGAIN, effectively play a No Sphere Grid game except for Yuna until I get a L2 key sphere, to let Wakka into the later half of Lulu's grid and go for the -ga series black magic, then teleport everyone else over there before Return-spere-ing or just moving them away from that point, playing blitzball seasons and using the reset trick to make sure I get a teleport sphere as prize every time, and a return sphere for top score... The Luca-only free agent team that pwns: Tidus, Shaami (reporter girl) Zev Ronso (on the docks) Shuu (maroon jacket girl in bar), Zalitz (guy sitting outside theatre) & Jumal (daddy sitting by fountain). Zalitz is kind of a toss up at low levels, though, which the reset trick constantly keeps you at - except for their lack of techniques one of the original Aurochs defenders are nearly as good. Ropp fromt eh trading post is much better than him, but I don't want to fight the chocobo eater until Yuna has Cura so she can keep healing it until I push it off the cliff, to get the L1 keyspheres. Haste on party/Slow on boss is definitely a freind in that fight.)
Um... now I forgot what I actually had to say about the thread topic...
... Oh, yeah, armored Valks - I see one of the things included in the armor hardpoint package is heavier duty structural integrity field generators and power links to the armor's supplemental powerplant to run them, possibly even to the point that there's a boost to the joint actuators by manipulating the fields, a feat the normal clean valk configuration can't match, thoguh a Super-pack might give the generation capacity to give a similar boost, providing an actual reason for Super Valks to be tougher and stronger than a normal valk despite the minimal coverage of actual added armor plates. Your idea of the Full Armors being a field expedient solution to limited production capabilities is also a good one, I think - it increases shared parts, obviously, and makes for unified training paths for both pilots and ground crews - all attractive when your rescource base is a single ship and its contents, rather than an entire planet, or even a nation or coalition.
I wanna see SV-51s, too - maybe when the SDF is in Ontario trying to offload civvies, since I doubt the EDTO would sell its prize new fighter to a state that refused to be part of it.
RE the Atmospheric pack, with it's own wings while the normal ones stay tucked back - this would look something like the Sound Booster for Mylene's Sound Force VF-11, then? Only with the kickass VF5K atmo pack as a core, instead of a single pod.
RE transforming SDF - I'm split on this one. You're right, it really makes little sense for a starship to transform, when there's nothing for it to go hand to hand with, but I really like the New Macross design with its docked gunship/pod as well. And, from a totally different mecha-carrier philosophy, the VLS-style bays from Genesis Climber MOSPEADA, with an overhead door that can launch an entire compliment of battroids nearly simultaneously, also has a high appeal to me. Maybe something of a three-way hybrid - for surface-navy operations it takes a form almost the same as a RL carrier, with the spinal cannon ending up submerged below the bow. From the wave crests and up, it can transform some, the dual-ARMOR flight deck splitting out to the sides like the original SDF's tuning fork main gun and the cannon rising to be roughly even with them, and the engine blocks rearranging a bit to keep the axis of thrust acting through the center of mass, ening up with something of a trident configuration. This gives the ARMORs enough seperation that they can fire their own spinal mounts at the same time and not have the beams interfere with each other. There would also be VLS bays mid-low and aft in either form to maintain flgiht operations when the ARMOR minicarriers are detached.
Well, that's how it's supposed to work, except one of the ARMORs was trashed by enemy fire... but the Deadalus was carried along in the misfold, and the ratchet jocks in engineering think they can whip up a coupling adaptor.
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SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
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