Battlesuits for smaller users...

[Ulzgoroth]

Originally Posted by Pragmatic

Forgive me, but I have absolutely no idea what that means in this conversation.

Take a Ferrari. Put it on a mile-long track. Have me and race-car driver Jeff Gordon both absolutely floor it. We're both going to get the same maximum speed out of the car, because that's how the car was built. It doesn't matter if his hand-eye coordination is better, or if his skill is better, or whatever. Putting a cement block on the accelerator will do the same thing.

But that's what we have with the battlesuits. They're not treated as vehicles or equipment, they're treated as power-ups.

Battlesuits are not vehicles. They aren't like vehicles either. A vehicle, as you say, doesn't care who is in it...it has basically the same performance whether the driver is a newbie, a master, or a cinderblock. Because the driver doesn't really make any contribution to the vehicle's propulsion.

In a battlesuit, the movement of the limbs is performed by the wearer's muscles. The suit assists, but it doesn't replace.