Give PO a reason to exist.

[JDresdin]

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary): PO's are pretty much just fluff right now. My suggestion is to have them "pilot" the rasputin, they'd need to sit in their chair and have the screen open/push some random buttons during flight for the duration.

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole): Give PO's a reason to exist, cuts down on silly practice of "shuffling" shuttles from the bridge.

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc): To pilot the Rasputin, the PO would need to push some buttons during flight, could just be a course correction button, and then a landing button. If they don't push these buttons or the Rasp is auto launched, it would "crash" on planet or in hanger, requiring a much longer cool-down to spin up again, or even damaging engines requiring an engineer to wrench/fix them before working properly again.

A crashed shuttle on planet would also always be recoverable to the Sulaco, but auto recovering a damaged shuttle would increase cool-down even more, and need mandatory extensive repairs to function again.

Drop pod cool down would also need to be increased, it should be already IMO as besides the turrets, there's no incentive to use the shuttle over it, and a drop pod should be a situational use type of thing (quick to deploy but not as effective over extended periods).

[Feweh]

Already in the works

[Doktor710]

Maybe just add think, that if PO is sitting in the chair or launching the pod, it will go faster and have shorter cooldown?

[Boltersam]

Maybe just add think, that if PO is sitting in the chair or launching the pod, it will go faster and have shorter cooldown?

THERE IS ALREADY A FECKING MECHANIC FOR THIS. IT'S A BUTTON ON THE CONSOLE THAT ONLY POS CAN ACTIVATE.

[JDresdin]

THERE IS ALREADY A FECKING MECHANIC FOR THIS. IT'S A BUTTON ON THE CONSOLE THAT ONLY POS CAN ACTIVATE.

You're a bit of a spaz eh? lol. There's like at least dozen people who can use shuttle consoles in most rounds.

Already in the works

That's awesome to hear, looking forward to seeing what you guys do.

[ParadoxSpace]

You're a bit of a spaz eh? lol. There's like at least dozen people who can use shuttle consoles in most rounds..

As in, only the PO can activate that button.

[Boltersam]

You're a bit of a spaz eh? lol. There's like at least dozen people who can use shuttle consoles in most rounds.

Only POs can activate the button, nitwit.

Think before you speak. It helps.

[forwardslashN]

It's in the works. Resolved.