CELESTA AUNGM
Kang Lo Directorate
Gallente Federation
642
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Posted - 2015.09.10 15:40:00 -
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Here's a cool Lore/Corporate-tech explanation (LOL, otherwise known as a fun, full of balony explanation) for what happens when you are killed:
The instant before your death, your dropsuit is punctured and ruined to the point of electrical failure. Let's face it, if the "Dropsuit" actually was real and did what is described, it would be an absolute SUPREME achievement of technology.
It not only protects, and relays sensor data. It POWERS every gadget you're carrying (the guns, grenades, reppers, have no self-initiator (they can't run far at all without the dropsuit powering and managing them).
Only those special creations classified as "Equipment" have the ability to retain power remotely, even after the dropsuit that initiates them and transmits to them, has been run over by a passing HAV.
So your grenade which has just been signaled by your dropsuit to "cook", loses the instruction and the power to initiate, the moment your dropsuit has a catastrophic failure as you were killed.
Sorry, CCP. Your request to receive my resume for possible employment is very nice of you, but I must reluctantly pass.... I can't stand the cold weather over there!
Universe of good wishes for the 49, especially CCP Eterne...
No story can have life without writers and publishers.
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CELESTA AUNGM
Kang Lo Directorate
Gallente Federation
642
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Posted - 2015.09.10 19:04:00 -
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LOL, My explanation still holds. The grenade is power-initiated by your dropsuit. We're likely making a terrible mistake if we think we are "pulling a pin" as in earth-style grenades. (I have not seen any pin-pulling in the game animation).
You are commanding your dropsuit to send a signal to the grenade to cook while you are holding it. As long as the dropsuit is transmitting the signal, the grenade cooks after you've thrown it. But if the dropsuit is destroyed when you die, the transmission cuts off---and your grenade is now just an inert object that the game doesn't even worry to render (like the loose debris from damaged walls, after it sits on the ground.)
The grenade can't complete it's procedure without the dropsuit's continued transmission.
Universe of good wishes for the 49, especially CCP Eterne...
No story can have life without writers and publishers.
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