The fusion system in SM, as useful as it is, feels to me like it do with some improvements. Here's my suggestion:
** New Fusion System **Power ReserveThe Power Reserve would be where power points go to after being extracted from weapons, either by extracting power from an item or incinerating one. Adding power to items or upgrade modules (more on these later) would draw from here.
IncineratonIncineration would be a lossless way to extract fusion from an item, at the cost of permanently destroying it, similar to how the current Fusion Core works, except that power points would be added to your reserve instead of direct fusion into other weapons/specials.
ExtractionAn alternative method to extract power from an item
without destroying it, instead removing some of the power from an fused item. However, there is a downside to this method:
fusion power loss. Depending on how much power an item contains, not
all of the power extracted will be added to your reserve. The severity of the loss is dependent on how much fusion has been added to the target item;
<5,000 Power: 5% Loss5,000-25,000 Power: 10% Loss25,000-100,000 Power: 15% Loss100,000-400,000 Power: 20% Loss>400,000 Power: 25% LossPower Fusion CoreThis is where power would be added to items, simple and fairly straightforward. There is no limit to how much fusion can be added to a particular item, provided you have the power points required, of course.
Upgrade ShopThe Upgrade Shop would be implemented as a new tab in the regular shop, and upgrade modules would cost tokens, the price depending on the effect of the module. These would add extra properties to individual items, thus making them stronger (for example, adding the max energy damage property to an electric sword). However, this would
increase the weight of the target item, so caution is required when using them, to avoid a situation like creating an ultra-powerful weapon only to find it's too heavy to effectively use. To help avoid this, upgrade modules would display how much extra weight they will add. Adding these to items would cost a medium amount of power points.
Make sure to vote and feel free to comment. I hope you like this suggestion.
