PDA seems to have a lot of computing power..

0x6A7232

Perhaps it should be necessary to have a mainframe blueprint / base module? Thus your PDA senses things and communicates with the mainframe, which processes it and gives the result.

I just kind of find it odd that the PDA does analysis on unknown alien tech and comes back with an answer in mere moments. I mean, I know it's future tech and all, but still, it's just an emergency survival PDA, right?

Of course, then again, we do have a wall-mounted fabricator and a hand-held base constructor... so.. yeah.

I just thought it'd be cool to have a mainframe is all I guess.

Thoughts?

Julian1337331nailuJ

I Think That If It Was Not In Emergency Mode It Would Go Instantly. It Needs To Slow Down With The Computing If In Emergency Mode.

0x6A7232

Julian1337331nailuJ wrote: »

I Think That If It Was Not In Emergency Mode It Would Go Instantly. It Needs To Slow Down With The Computing If In Emergency Mode.

To preserve battery power, maybe, or something.

Julian1337331nailuJ

I Guess. But. How Much Power Does Its Batteries Store?

0x6A7232

It's not documented, and not implemented as a mechanic in the game.

Julian1337331nailuJ

Oh. Maybe Its Batteries Are Self Recharging?

0x6A7232

Well, they do have watches powered from user movement, so maybe?

Tarkannen

Not to mention the Lifepods are equipped with Self-Charging Power Cells, so they can always provide power in emergencies. Given how long some of the abandoned PDAs are still functional after all the time has passed from when you find them (the PDAs in the abandoned bases have been there for years), they must use the same power technology.

Rezca

Tarkannen wrote: »

Not to mention the Lifepods are equipped with Self-Charging Power Cells, so they can always provide power in emergencies. Given how long some of the abandoned PDAs are still functional after all the time has passed from when you find them (the PDAs in the abandoned bases have been there for years), they must use the same power technology.

Probably real small ones though, enough to keep the PDA going but not enough to rip out and stick into your power-hungry Seaglide...

Joeakuaku

Rezca wrote: »

Probably real small ones though, enough to keep the PDA going but not enough to rip out and stick into your power-hungry Seaglide...

Granted, it's a single battery powering a higher-speed water propulsion system with an automatic environmental scanner (or whatever it is) which then holographically projects a rough 3d-height graph of the nearby surrounding environment.

Or something like that.

So it's probably very efficient, actually.
And then consider how long the Powerglide lasts on a single battery.

off-topic; are they ever gonna fix the powerglide? It seems to propel based on the first-person model's direction or something, and since the animation seems broken, it's a task to direct it correctly-ish.