Battery Holders: How to fix a bug, add a feature, and make money

anomalousx · July 2022

Batteries cause some annoying bug issues that makes them inconvienent to slot and if it were an easy fix then we wouldn't have needed the loadout workaround for space configs. As a consumable they're also the bane of a RPG conservationalist mind.

I've planned a way around this with "Battery Holders(tech name goes here)".

The holders sit in the device slot and pull batteries from inventory.
It chooses which battery to pull from first based on which is closest to top left cornor and then works from left-to-right and then down.
Holders will have a power type like normal batteries they provide a boost too(weapons, shields, engine, aux).
Holders could(possible-planning phase) take any type of common quality battery and "convert"(consume) them to the type of power they provide.(this is nice for mobs who favor dropping random batteries)
If a holder consumes a superior battery then the same buffs are applied.
If no batteries are present in inventory a holder can still provide a small boost when activated.
There could be different quality types with the basic ones coming from dil store, the advanced ones(that give more buffs) coming from lockboxes, and the elites coming from lobi.

davefenestrator · July 2022

FYI, you can get an unlimited-use Red Matter Capacitor from the Phoenix token store.

nixie50 · July 2022

Roll an engineer and get RMC.. you will be selling the batteries every time you pass a vendor

protoneous · July 2022

I used to use old fashioned basic batteries, even the hybrid dual boost ones. Now it seems there's so many other cool things to put in a device slot.

Some favourites...

Reactive Armor Catalysts or Hull Patch

Energy Amplifier (also comes in exotic and kinetic and they're all craftable)

Deuterium Surplus

Temporal Negotiator

Kobayashi Maru Transponder

anomalousx · July 2022

Red Matter Capacitor is kind of weak for this age of elite content
All consumables still have slot bug problems(including Reactive armor, hull patch, energy amp, and deuterium surplus)
slotting support craft beacons like Kobayashi is not practical to builds that make use of the Command Frequency ability which shares CD with them and also the interesting side note that many of them don't even need to be slotted to work.

Battery Holders: How to fix a bug, add a feature, and make money

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