New poll for the thread, please react
We've been discussing the exact priorities for Reusable Rocket Boots (RRBs) in Discord and I wanted to gauge the opinion of the thread.
My personal take is that we should prioritize uses of the seal up to 6 total, and then work on bonuses. My reasoning is that gives a good trade off between uses and bonus. Currently RBs are 1x use and + sealmaster (SM) AB.
My reasoning is that most combat tends to be team on team, and Hazou tends to draw fire because he's low Ath and a Summoner, so he's a high priority target. In the Hyena fight, he dodged 5 times and made 0 attacks. And Canzon died to draw fire away from him.
Now most combat situations don't have that many combatants, but 6 uses covers 3 Rounds of 1 dodge + 1 attack or 2 rounds of 2 dodge 1 attack. Which seems like a good number to me.
So ideally I'd like to get 6x uses and then work on increasing the bonus. When we can't get a good improvement anymore, start increasing uses until we can't get any more of those.
So let's say we get to 6x uses and improve the bonus to +1.5 SM AB, Hazou can't figure out how to improve the bonus to +2 SM AB, so he prioritizes uses again and gets 2 more for a total of 8x uses at +1.5 SM AB.
Please react like if you agree with this assessment. Heart if you think we should prioritize uses more before switching to bonus. Informative if more bonus before uses. Insightful if other unspecified.
PART 1: Problem Statement / Confirmation
The reason we want reusable rocket boots at all, instead of just using a ton of supercharged single-use rocket boots, is because you can only attach one set of rocket boots to your feet at a time, right?
Like... your foot-chakra activates the seal closest to your foot first, which explodes any seals stacked below it.
(I'll assume this is the case, but can any poster please confirm this, or explain where/how I am mistaken?)
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PART 2: that seems like an engineering problem
Instead of sacrificing our rocket boot's power, why don't we rethink and find a way to activate multiple foot-seals without manually reloading?
This would go through more seals, but would let us focus on making incredibly powerful single-use rocket boots, and enable us to use an unbounded number of them per fight.
Option 1: MARS-activated pile.
Would MARS let us stack rocket-boot seals? use a MARS trigger to activate the rocket boot on the bottom of the pile(furthest from your foot) first. Next time, you MARS-activate the Second-bottom seal, which blasts away the previously-expended bottom seal when it activates.
Option 2: Cassette scrolls
A small scroll attached to the bottom of our shoe. The rolled-up ends of the scroll are at the toe and heel of the platform shoes, and the unrolled section of the scroll runs along the sole of the foot. The scroll is directly inscribed with dozens of rocket boot seals. The scroll automatically advances after each rocket boot is used, so a new rocket boot is automatically unrolled into place.
The automatic scrolling for the shoe-scroll cold happen any number of ways
- A simple seal at either end of the scroll turns the scroll-ends when we push chakra through our feet(with a short delay for the rocket boots to finish firing)
- The rotating-seal can't be by our foot-chakra when we activate rocket boots. Instead, the "scroll" is two overlapping scrolls rolled together. the seal facing our foot is MARS, the seal facing the ground is a rocket boot. the MARS seal activates the rocket boot, and the delayed-effect rollers to advance the scroll.
- The scroll rotation is triggered by a MARS seal in our glove, independent of rocket boot activation. (Kind of like a "next slide" clicker during a presentation.)
- Some mechanical gizmo that auto-loads another seal when there isn't one in place(have some ideas, may post later)
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PART 3: Should we rethink the optimization target of our upgraded rocket boots?
If any of these methods(or ideas like them) work, we could potentially activate dozens of rocket boot seal per fight. this would make extra uses of our rocket boot seals a much less vital research front, and allow us to optimize our rocket boots for the biggest numerical impact.
This seems like the best of both worlds: the most powerful rocket boots we can make, usable dozens of times per fight.
Does this seem like a promising research direction to Y'all?
