Pilot Quality of Live Improvements

[killinkyle]

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary): Some simply quality of life improvements for the Rasputin and the Pilot. Gives him a bit more to do, really.

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole): Gives the pilot more to do, makes him even more valuable, makes Marines actually take the dropship post round start.

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc):

First: Two slots at the butt end of the ship that have "Latches" similar to modern aircraft that can keep things locked in place. This way, I can place Cargo on the dropship without tard marines pushing it off the sides. Want to make this more fun? Give me two, and make it so if there's any containers/backpacks/belts on the pod, it can't be sent up or down.

Second: Emergency Medical Supplies. We have those two fancy Medspencers, but marines just ninja all the shit in them and we are left with diddly. Can we get an emergency Medspencer for Pilot access only? Also, Pilots should come with basic first aid training, so we can at least treat wounded marines who show up half dead on our ship.

Third: Engine Working. There's currently a two minute CD for the ship to take off. What if we could shave seconds off that by going around certain areas of the ship with tools (The console, the engines) and fixing them up to make things work faster? Gives the Pilot a hands on engaging activity that allows them to keep work productivity up, in return for dangerous out of ship activities.

Fourth: Ship LZ. Let us change where the ship lands between one of the two spots. Increase the sizes, and let us pick where we land our dropship. Maybe add a third that's activated after thirty minutes at the tablefort? Just some ideas so the Pilot has more options rather than landing on the LZ where nobody ever is.

Fifth: Give me a Zippo and some cigarettes. Maybe for a joke, a no-smoking-sign outside on the ship. Also, I want my Zippo engraved with the Rasputin symbol. Yeah. That's all.

Implementation (Optional, if you have an idea how to implement it): Programming magic and the salt filled tears of coders sleepless nights.

[Sarah_U.]

Most of this was already talked about quite a bit. Apop intends to make some changes to rasp, just gotta let things move first. Nice thing you suggest it though (But, beware you may want to make multiple suggestions to separate idea?).

[killinkyle]

I don't want to flood the board with suggestion threads. That's not really my style.

[Sarah_U.]

I figured, but otherwise I love the fact you suggested a cargo hold on the rasp since it was something I was thinking about for a while. (Maybe modify the rasp to have a 1x3 space on the side with shutters that lead directly to space, but allows access for stuff to be put on?

I'll submit a few RASP concepts if needed... Actually, I might even start doing that right about now.

Here's the update and work:
Here's the currently used rasputin made by me using the pre-alpha content: http://imgur.com/vhEW0RT
Here's the 3 designs I quickly made to showcase suggestions of what could be done for a cargo hold on the rasp: http://imgur.com/rtyXEMJ
EDIT: Was asked to make a small change... I did it for Nostromo nostalgia's sake and giggles: http://imgur.com/DzEEClo

[Boltersam]

Let me suggest another thing.

An intercom so I can go "Hello marines, this is your captain speaking. Vomit bags under the seats. Hang on tight, we'll experience SLIGHT turbulence while I do several loop-de-loops and the occasional barrel roll. Thank you. Oh, and wait until the seatbelt lights turn off to get up, or you'll be smashed into gibs by G-forces. Sometimes they malfunction."

[SPACEpotato1]

Let me suggest another thing.

An intercom so I can go "Hello marines, this is your captain speaking. Vomit bags under the seats. Hang on tight, we'll experience SLIGHT turbulence while I do several loop-de-loops and the occasional barrel roll. Thank you. Oh, and wait until the seatbelt lights turn off to get up, or you'll be smashed into gibs by G-forces. Sometimes they malfunction."

I do that

"Ward's Warden Airlines"

[Boltersam]

New suggestion, that might piss off some people.

Make the pod slower than the Rasputin, because it uses AI which is inferior to a human pilot. If you could just use AI, there would be no point to the Pilot, and the majority of the Marines don't use the Rasputin after they go down at the start of the round, because the pod is closer to the FOB, which is almost always Tcomms, and the Pilot sees much less use.

[Snypehunter007]

Old, lack of continued interest.

Locking.