u/Hoovy_weapons_guy

Right now the wakemaker is suffering from the same issue as the seaglide in the first two games, it makes all other speed modifiers irrelevant.

it simply sets the speed at 6m/s regardless of other modifiers. your fins, speed enhancing biomods (other than dash its just built diffrent) or in the original game the light oxygen tank as well as the speed debuff from the reinforced dive suit are completly irrelevant.

the solution is simple: nerf the wakemaker a little but make it add its speed rather than set it. that way those modifiers put in for balancing will actually do something and heck, why not let the player swim faster than a stock tadpole with a full speed build?

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base upkeep gets cut in half to make game easier for solos but multiplied by the number of players authorised in the tc and the numbers of other people they have in a group. a solo gets 0.5x upkeep, a duo 1x, a trio 1.5x, a 20 man clan gets 10x the current upkeep costs and so on.

that way everyone has to farm the same amount for the same base no matter how many people they share it with. this would also put a soft limit on clan sizes as at a certain point their base will become unsustainable.

At first glance the RDA getting their hands on spiders mycelium seems like a bad thing. Bad enough to almost kill the poor kid if your name is jake sully. If humans can breathe the air without masks the rda will spread across the planet and win right? Wrong.

Firstly for the capabilities of the rda nothing will change. The masks are only an issue when you are far away from a base or vehicle to recharge it but going away from those is a bad idea regardless due to all the wildife wanting to meet you (and also eat you). the only thing that really changes from the rdas perspective is the building costs as they no longer need airtight buildings. And even more humans coming to pandora due to this is also not gonna happen because the main issue for the rda in that regard is not space but transportation

Second, the masks kind of work in the rdas favor. they are like an invisible leash around their employees. its hard to strike for better working conditions when your boss can just flick a switch and have you all suffacate. its even harder to defect from the rda as you will never reach somewhere else without running out of air and dying. without the masks the rdas only leverage will be the workers salary wich is hard to spend on pandora or a gun to the head. The masks are not only a leash around the individua workers but also around the entire pandoran colony. without them they could live without supplies from earth and potentinally become idependent.

Third, the mycelium also grants a kuru. This could be seen as an advantage to the rda as they could use the wildlife for their own goals but it also makes the humans able to, as jake puts it "see" pandora. the bond works both ways and can change individuals. in short, many humans in the rda will see not only the beauty of pandora but also how the rda destroys it. it is also stated in frontiers of pandora that the rda already has issues with defectors to the point of executing people even thinking about it. imagine how many issues they have to control their people now that their strongest leverage is gone and said people "seeing" pandora.

in the end, brigehead could fall not to the na'vi, not to eywa but to their own kind