Quote from: Bren;1019061Sometimes instead of power per se it's some version of overheating or required cool-down if too much power is used for too long.

I liked the suit design FlyingMice. But why is one of the protections ABC instead of NBC?

Atomic vs Nuclear, ABC was the older (1950s, 60s?) acronym before somebody decided it needed to change to Nuclear (I assume because Nuclear sounds more techie). Now the cool kids call it CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear).

Quote from: Bren;1019061I liked the suit design FlyingMice. But why is one of the protections ABC instead of NBC?

Because I used the older Atomic/Biological/Chemical seal nomenclature. Easier for this old brain to remember. It's an older code, but it checks out.

Power armor minimums is kind of genre specific. In a hard science "near future" genre, heavy personal armor with the power to offset its weight really is all you need. As you move towards higher tech settings along the lines of HALO, and Starship Troopers which I think is what most picture when they hear Power Armor, then these other things start to become factors.

If someone was pitching a "power armor" game, I would expect the suits to include:

Enhanced mobility (better, stronger, faster) not necessarily superhuman levels, but approaching professional / Olympic athlete levels is expected.

Enhanced senses, at least to the levels of what a modern soldier has available, only in the suit it is built in. Night vision, short range communications, perhaps a short range motion tracker (aliens style) to aid in situational awareness, and a heads up display with a comm link able to provide information, or perhaps a more militant Siri that can verbally provide the info. A Body cam that can share images between other team members and command would be handy.

Environmental protection, an enclosed air system at a minimum, heating / cooling, hydration, waste disposal are all a plus.  

Coordinated targeting system, something that talks to the weapon and interfaces with the sensory enhancements to aid in targeting.


Mission specific modular enhancements, jet packs, heavy weapons pack etc

Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;1018953A way to drink water, and a way to pee.

Solved with a flexible tube and a filter.

Quote from: soltakss;1019075Solved with a flexible tube and a filter.

I would really prefer TWO flexible tubes and a filter...

Quote from: Toadmaster;1019069Atomic vs Nuclear, ABC was the older (1950s, 60s?) acronym before somebody decided it needed to change to Nuclear

I did not know that.

Quote from: flyingmice;1019070Because I used the older Atomic/Biological/Chemical seal nomenclature.

Now it all makes sense.

Quote from: flyingmice;1019036As a fan of Iron Man since the beginning - yes, I have Iron Man #1 - his suit was originally nowhere near as powerful as it later became. He was always having power problems until he finally perfected the Arc Reactor (which was actually invented by his father, Howard) and miniaturized it into the Iron Man Mark VI armor. Unlike the movie series, this took years of work.

I did find this funny in retrospect, but at the time it made sense.

They took a bit of that for the first film.  The arc reactor that powered the building was not something he whipped out in a day, he perfected his father's tech, then he had all that time to miniaturize it as a power source.

After the techies and the suits and the committees are done designing it.  Give it to a couple of gunts, tell them any part of it that breaks they are going to have to hump all the way out of the field in their ruck, and let them strip it down to something simple and light wieght