Equipment for Iconic Characters and William Headley's Powerstone-enchanting potential

[Plane]

Originally Posted by Stormcrow

C-31's weapon pods don't have the Limited Use limitation, so the ammunition is infinite. This leads him in a cinematic direction.

GURPS Powers has a mechanism for gradually applying FP costs (I think 1 per hour or per minute) when using powers without limiting factors like Costs FP or Limited Use, but that's complicated here by C-31 (B309) being a Machine (B263) and thus having no FP...

Machine does not include "Doesn't Eat" (and C-31 doesn't have that atop it) and starvation rules involve dealing with FP loss. Machines can even take "increased consumption" if they need more fuel... but what happens if trying to operate on empty?

B426 Starvation involves FP loss (see also B104 enhancement for Fatigue Attack called Hazard: Starvation +40%) so I don't know how you deal with a "starving machine". Hazard: Missed Sleep is another such situation for many machines though it wouldn't apply to C-31 since he has the Mentality Meta-Trait of AI (also B263) which includes Doesn't Sleep.

I think I recall somewhere you have them lose HP or HT instead? Can't remember where I saw that though.

Anyway the idea I had to "pay for bullets" (and maybe for plasma shots) is to use the rules for gradual FP loss by using powers (they resemble the 'sprinting' rules I think) and convert them however you'd convert the starvation rules, maybe even treat them as FP lost to starvation for simplicity, except as HP or HT or however it works for "no FP" beings using FP-loss rules like Starvation, which is a thing for machines.

The "doesn't heal" aspect would make it really dangerous to try shooting bullets/plasma while low on fuel, meaning he'd need repairs, which I'm guessing would be harder to do on oneself.