Battlesuits for smaller users...

[Pragmatic]

Originally Posted by Icelander

You know that a car has more than one gear, right? So putting the foot down and keeping it down succeeds only at revvying the engine high enough to burn it out eventually and nets you less than half the maximum speed of the vehicle.

See that wall over there? Enjoy watching while I pound my head against it. :-P

Okay, how about a sound amplifier. We can get the woman from Police Academy, who never talked above a whisper. And a screaming hard-rocker. Put them both on the amplifier, with its settings set to double the volume.

Now double it again. And again. Eventually, it's going to reach the engineer-designed limits. Eventually, the amount of amplification for Whispering Wendy will be much greater than the amplification for Screaming Sammy.

I don't care how strong someone is. They're not using THEIR muscles to make the battlesuit (for instance) lift a recon car off of trapped soldiers. It's all the "muscles" of the battlesuit. So why does the battlesuit suddenly get weaker when a pudgy accountant gets into it? Do they have to drain off some hydraulic fluid, or reduce the power level of the installed reactor, or something?