What about Natural MF earned abilities (not chips)?
Natural MF Abilities
I like many of your ideas Nighthawk, but would I buy many of these non attack type chips? Quite honestly I don’t think I would charge a chip to run across water.
But I would like to see some of your ideas being natural abilities, that are unlocked with MF Pro professions levels.
Say stuck at the bottom of a large cliff, you could click a button to access the mind that charges a jump, to shoot you 50m into the air (and over the cliff). This would really make MF unique, earning certain natural powers. At Level 10 you can jump 10m, level 20 then 20m, level 30 then 30m jump etc.
Same for a boost of acceleration so you can run across water for x seconds.
This would give something to strive for to boost natural abilities. But these extra powers can’t be instantly accessible as could be use to exploit. So would need to charge the mind for 10 seconds to enable the jump mode etc. This is nothing new is it intuition that unlocks and then enables you to run faster (or another unlock)?
Faster Chips, crafted
I agree with Dan that chips are too slow and in many cases low range for the power of the mind we hafve developed over the years. We need attack chips that are on par with some top end rifles (for speed and range).
A rapid fire of small plasma balls might be easy to develop from a visual point of view (speed v graphic).
I also think we have a serious problem with big chip availability, there are not enough big chips on auction. So if new “big” chips are coming online they need to be craftable.
There was one “IX electric (L)” chip in auction last night, how lame is that for top end MF users.
If MA really wants (L) to work then it needs to think of ways to get these chips to users. Or make some big attack chips (non L)
Armour:
I do think we can have some type of MF armour, protection bubbles...only need one bubble for a visual...but many chips with various levels of protection. Damn that would confuse attackers in PVP lol, wondering what protection you have. Again on this point the MF “mystery” is naturally there with this type of idea.
The armour chip decays from attack, not by charging it, very similar to how armour works already. So this part of the tech (programming) is there already.
Enough already, or post will be too long
Rick.
Ps: thanks for your efforts nighthawk.
Ps: Charlie: VSE MkII that drops when you hit level 30 sweat gatherer. Drop one in my invent please and to all the other +30 sweaters we earned it (seriously) hee,hee.