Re: [HOE] Fire and Power Armor

[Robert Holland <robert@macauley.com>]

>How about increasing the energy drain of the armoured
>suit as it absorbs more heat? Say the internal systems
>of the suit have to go into overdrive to prevent
>failing due to the heat themselves and/or passing on
>the damage to their wearer. 
>
>So for every round that the heat source is kept
>constant (such as walking through an intense fire or
>some idiot continues to blast away at you with a flame
>thrower) the drain of the suit goes up by one. VV for
>when the heat source is taken away down to the normal
>minimum. 
>
>I'm not that keen on an armoured suit being ablated by
>intense heat. In my view, the armour stays constant
>but instead it is the heat transfer that starts to
>cause the problems.

My suggestion wasn't that heat would ablate the armor, just that it would make
it temporarily less effective against heat attacks only.

You idea makes some sense too, though. You might add something like reliability
checks once the accumulated drain passes a certain level to avoid shutdown.

--Robert Holland