Suggestion: Space Suits?
Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2012 2:17 am
Now, I am not quite sure if its already meant to be abstracted in the crew members that they are already wearing gear, but that was not necessarily readily apparent to me in the demo or more recent update videos (thank you for those, look forward to more) that a reduction in the health of a crew member was their outfit getting worn down - life support running out on their person when there is no atmo or is it their body not getting enough oxygen to the brain? I take it is meant to represent physical damage with the med bay repairing it and this gets me to wondering:
Why aren't the folks in a space ship using space suits? Especially in enviroments hazardous to their health?
To that end, if it isn't a hassle on the budget (time, money, etc), could you please make one of the things that it is possible to research and use be space suits for the crew? Survive the vacuum and radiation of space, be fire proof, wear some armor to fight of boarders and to board enemy ships? Heck, maybe even have personnel shields and cloaking devices, crew portable heavy weapons systems? Bonus to salvaging ships for valuable stuff like the first episode of Firefly and enemy crew if they were wearing a space suit when their ship got wrecked?
Just sayin', I found myself caring about the crew (especially if they start getting good at doing a bunch of the different crew tasks as you suggested you would be trying to put in, IIRC), I would want to give them as good of fighting chance as possible if I was Captain of the USS "Oh Gawd They Are Coming RUN" Enterprise.
How wild would it be if like the apex of the space suit would be some sort of exoskeleton cybernetic "Get away from her you bitch!" robo-mech-heavy gear thing. Oh hey there rock aliens
Why aren't the folks in a space ship using space suits? Especially in enviroments hazardous to their health?
To that end, if it isn't a hassle on the budget (time, money, etc), could you please make one of the things that it is possible to research and use be space suits for the crew? Survive the vacuum and radiation of space, be fire proof, wear some armor to fight of boarders and to board enemy ships? Heck, maybe even have personnel shields and cloaking devices, crew portable heavy weapons systems? Bonus to salvaging ships for valuable stuff like the first episode of Firefly and enemy crew if they were wearing a space suit when their ship got wrecked?
Just sayin', I found myself caring about the crew (especially if they start getting good at doing a bunch of the different crew tasks as you suggested you would be trying to put in, IIRC), I would want to give them as good of fighting chance as possible if I was Captain of the USS "Oh Gawd They Are Coming RUN" Enterprise.
How wild would it be if like the apex of the space suit would be some sort of exoskeleton cybernetic "Get away from her you bitch!" robo-mech-heavy gear thing. Oh hey there rock aliens