Ugh, Stamina In Archwings? Seriously?

[Zorex]

Having such a thing as stamina when running around in a ridiculously powerful combat exoskeleton is already very questionable, but why the hell would you have stamina when using an archwing? This makes no sense. It's just annoying.

[Ubarruk]

Think of is as a self restoring nitro, it can only store so much, but it replenishes itself

[Trowicia]

And here I was hoping I can actually give up some of my Shield so I can fly for a much longer time.

 

Bah, I'll give it time to adjust.

[LGear]

As Dralkai said, think of the Archwing stamina as its boost energy.

[Zorex]

Think of is as a self restoring nitro, it can only store so much, but it replenishes itself

 

This would make sense if zero stamina actually made you just outright stop. But you can still move and do things!

[ClockworkSpectre]

You could think of it as an overheat gauge, at least with the Archwings.

[[DE]Momaw]

Thinking of it as "heat capacity" makes the most sense to me. Things heat up in space and it's hard to get rid of the heat because there's no air.  The archwing is decided to run at its normal maneuvering speed indefinitely, or at 100% thrust for short spans. Once you saturate the coolant or heat sinks or whatver it's got, you have to go back to maneuvering speed to let things cool off.

 

Though, it might be interesting to see a new model of archwing that is designed with improved cooling to burn at 100% thrust indefinitely but has less shielding and energy capacity than the heavier duty versions....

[Nitresco]

This would make sense if zero stamina actually made you just outright stop. But you can still move and do things!

He said nitro. This implies the boost is a self-restoring alternate fuel that produces more energy on combustion, allowing faster movement, but can only be stored in a certain amount (due to either too high of an explosion risk when stored in higher quantities or size limits of the Archwing itself). Regular movement likely involves a weaker and more efficient energy source; one that can run for extended periods of time.

 

Chances are, we'll likely get another Archwing at some point that dedicates more of the device space to movement-focused augments in return for less of a focus on defense.

Edited October 25, 2014 by Nitresco

[Trowicia]

Thinking of it as "heat capacity" makes the most sense to me. Things heat up in space and it's hard to get rid of the heat because there's no air.  The archwing is decided to run at its normal maneuvering speed indefinitely, or at 100% thrust for short spans. Once you saturate the coolant or heat sinks or whatver it's got, you have to go back to maneuvering speed to let things cool off.

 

Though, it might be interesting to see a new model of archwing that is designed with improved cooling to burn at 100% thrust indefinitely but has less shielding and energy capacity than the heavier duty versions....

 

This makes it a little better to tolerate, IMO. Exhausing that much energy can generate quite the heat.

[fatpig84]

Think of it as heat.

 

Archwings have efficient heat distribution despite being in Spess, but pressing the after burner all day long will still need make heat unbearable.

Edited October 25, 2014 by fatpig84

[Marthrym]

Thinking of it as "heat capacity" makes the most sense to me. Things heat up in space and it's hard to get rid of the heat because there's no air.  The archwing is decided to run at its normal maneuvering speed indefinitely, or at 100% thrust for short spans. Once you saturate the coolant or heat sinks or whatver it's got, you have to go back to maneuvering speed to let things cool off.

 

Though, it might be interesting to see a new model of archwing that is designed with improved cooling to burn at 100% thrust indefinitely but has less shielding and energy capacity than the heavier duty versions....

Actually space is very cold. Air doesnt matter.^^

Maybe it's the boost "battery" that needs to replenish? Energy cells that basically have unlimited energy but only a fixed output and need to "refuel"?

[[DE]Momaw]

Actually space is very cold. Air doesnt matter.^^

 

Space isn't... "cold" in the usual sense. When we think of "cold" and "hot", we think of a contrast in temperatures and how heat can transfer. Heat transfer can occur by three different processes, which are conduction (between two solids), convection (involving a gas or liquid),and radiation (light, especially infrared). The very few molecules of gas in space have low thermal energy but there's nothing in space to touch so there's no conduction, and without significant amount of air there is no convection either. So the only way things can change their temperature is by radiation. Heating up is easy, just float in the sunlight. Space craft are painted bright white to AVOID absorbing too much heat from the sun, because without the atmosphere to protect us the sunlight can heat things to hundreds of degrees. Cooling off requires you to dump heat faster than it's being added, which generally means enormous radiator panels with heat pipes.  This is a much less efficient way to get rid of heat than pushing air through a heat sink, which is what we would do here on earth.

 

So. Air matters.