I love that caterpillars often drop their miniguns, but why don't they drop their heavy charge blasters or inferno cannons? Or Scythers their charge lances?
I understand the balance issue for when these mechs drop early game, but to me it would make a lot of sense if they could only be used by a pawn with a very high shooting skill.
As is, shooting skill is under-developed in its usefulness, beyond just being a measure of accuracy.
Growing skill can gate the tyoes of crops you can grow. Cooking skill can gate effectiveness of butchering, and likelyhood of food poisoning. Construction skill gates successful production. Mining skill gates effectiveness of mining.
Granted, I am being loose with 'gated' in a coupke of these examples, but I think the point stands.
If a charge lance required a skill of 18 it would be very balanced imo.
The only problem I can see with my suggestion is with sales. Presumably players would want to sell those weapons that they couldn't use, but
maybe there could be some simple text added to their item description that says that they are not saleable due to their unknown power signatures, or that they are unstable without being in competant hands.
Keeping with that idea, if the item is being stored (and not in the hands of a competant shooter) it could have a chance per tick to explode.
This could balance the weapons, while still allowing them to exist like other weapons.
(for those that want to re-roll for a crazy-high starting shooting pawn, well, that's their perogative. As welk, they would need to actively work to keep that skill high enough durong the early game to take advantage of the weapons early. Depending on the biome, that could be very difficult, and a hinderance in itself.
I understand the balance issue for when these mechs drop early game, but to me it would make a lot of sense if they could only be used by a pawn with a very high shooting skill.
As is, shooting skill is under-developed in its usefulness, beyond just being a measure of accuracy.
Growing skill can gate the tyoes of crops you can grow. Cooking skill can gate effectiveness of butchering, and likelyhood of food poisoning. Construction skill gates successful production. Mining skill gates effectiveness of mining.
Granted, I am being loose with 'gated' in a coupke of these examples, but I think the point stands.
If a charge lance required a skill of 18 it would be very balanced imo.
The only problem I can see with my suggestion is with sales. Presumably players would want to sell those weapons that they couldn't use, but
maybe there could be some simple text added to their item description that says that they are not saleable due to their unknown power signatures, or that they are unstable without being in competant hands.
Keeping with that idea, if the item is being stored (and not in the hands of a competant shooter) it could have a chance per tick to explode.
This could balance the weapons, while still allowing them to exist like other weapons.
(for those that want to re-roll for a crazy-high starting shooting pawn, well, that's their perogative. As welk, they would need to actively work to keep that skill high enough durong the early game to take advantage of the weapons early. Depending on the biome, that could be very difficult, and a hinderance in itself.