About the piloting issue. Why even bother trying to fit a humanoid in it?.
We have technology to put the mind of a person into another body. Why not take that, and create a mecha piloted by a copy of ones mind?
You'd have to run the later version of the K-suit, clean it up for Yamataian aesthetics. I still like an updated, enlarged motoslave-like unit. Use an armored pilot, it let the AI run the thing. All done.Minds aren't DL'd into suits and platforms because it's simply too inhuman, as practical as it is. Just because of that, it'd be out of the question for many players. As for the K-12/K-Suit, I dunno. Depending on where you go, where it be original Bubblegum, 2040 or AD Police, it varies.
That's obviously the AD Police Version, but just by going off the scale, they'd occupy a similar role to the Keiko, which I suspect hasn't received all that much attention since it's still using standard issue gear. Gear that's designed for a class of Medium/Light PA. Not stuff that's more suited to the job that it'd be called on to do.
Another thing to keep in mind is that the K-Series are all a lot more Nepleslian in asthetics, but the concept of a frame of the same size shouldn't be tossed out the window. IIRC, the original version of the K-Suit was more inline with the Aggressor in size, with the thing being roughly 4 meters. Those Sex-Bots and their stolen prototype really gave Leon and his K-Suit a hard time.
About the piloting issue. Why even bother trying to fit a humanoid in it?.
We have technology to put the mind of a person into another body. Why not take that, and create a mecha piloted by a copy of ones mind?
All right I had a pretty busy weekend, which all in all was not bad since I missed the shitstorm that happened in this thread. Thank you @Fred moderating this thread. You are awesome.
All right if I could ditch the transformation thing I would, I just went in favor for it since @Wes wanted whatever would support PA infantry to be able to fly and I wanted mecha so mecha that could change into gunship made sense. A compromise if you would.
Luckily Wes stepped in and said that he would not mind mobile mecha. Something that can fly, but keep humanoid shape. That I think is even better.
Smaller (lets say 4-5 meters tall mecha) mecha that has guns but can fly would be in opition perfect. With technology we have, we can make such machine easy I think.
But hey we are all chatting away as it can be this size, that size, this cockpit, that cockpit. Let's hear from Wes, let's move on to practical thing. We have confirmed that mecha could be viable for SAoY and it would have its role. Wes wants it to be mobile and be able to fly, which is really not a problem. I want it to be able to run on the ground and be tought bastards, which is also not problem. Both at once is also no problem. So let's move on.
@Wes, are you okay with Mecha being slowly implemented? Can we move on to make this thing? What do you miss on this if not? Let's get practical. Let's go to drawing board. No more bullshit.