Instead of combat how good would mobile suits be at construction?
Depends on what you want built. IIRC, weren't mobile suits evolved from vehicles built specifically for building space colonies?
>>23467415In gravity, not really. Cranes, Forklifts, and Lulls do the job you'd need an MS to do pretty well. In space I could see them being used as they give the worker more protection vs a normal spacesuit. They'd be doing the same jobs your heavy equipment is doing on a planet's surface.t. Construction Worker
>>23467447UC ones at least were originally used for construction, yeah
>>23467415They'd be shit which is why mobile suits as a concept just don't work.>2 arms 2 legsIf arms and legs are SOOOOO good for zero-g construction, why not just build a giant mechanical centipede with 10 arms and 10 legs?>Piloted by one personThis means you can only do one thing at a time, and that thing is imitating a human's range of motion with giant pieces of steel, glass, etc. You need 2 mobile suits to do the job of two people, instead of having one purpose-made ship to do the same job as 20 people.>humanoid shapeMeans you can't have a mobile suit do the job of a crane, a bulldozer, a shovel, a compacter, a cement truck, a skyscraper lift... You force your construction crews to work as if they are humans in space suits. It's stupid and inefficient.
>>23467415Fantastic, that's half the reason they're everywhere.
>>23468241>giant mechanical centipede with 10 arms and 10 legsI don't think the solution to something being good at something is to slap a dozen more onto it every time. Tracks are good. We don't need every backhoe to be twelve tracked segments chained together. >having one purpose-made ship to do the same job as 20 peopleThat sounds more like a factory than a vehicle. What vehicles do we use that can do twenty different jobs in a row?
>>23468241>If arms and legs are SOOOOO good for zero-g construction, why not just build a giant mechanical centipede with 10 arms and 10 legs?Yes? Sort of?
I can see a 18 meter tall bipedal machine being helpful for like...holding a building from collapsing, or in rescue efforts like picking up rubble and looking for survivals, maybe even stuff like rescuing people from dangerous waters
>>23468241Riveting original insight 10/10.
>>23468241>>humanoid shape>Means you can't have a mobile suit do the job of a crane, a bulldozer, a shovel, a compacter, a cement truck, a skyscraper lift... explain this
>>23479237Atheists will see this and say "my ancestor"
>>23467415I think the key thing MS would have over other construction vehicles is modularity, instead of a whole new vehicle you just need whatever specialised tool you're using with a handle the MS can hold. humanoid form would still probably go pretty quickly, something like the oggo would end up being the norm.
>>23467415within the Universal Century setting they're pretty great and were basically for exactly thatirl the big issue is construction infrastructure is already made with specific weight tolerances and clearances and stuff in mind, so there's not an easy way to work a 30' robot into existing logistics
>>23467572That was just the excuse to develop them.
There's a point, we've only ever really seen newtypes used in the context of combat pilot. They'd be great in other sectors, imagine how useful funnels with construction equipment would be.
>>23490794you can anticipate how that brick intends to fall on the foreman's head
>>23467415Pretty good. Think of an MS as a two armed Excavator.
>>23468241anonbuy some kids' building blocksnow try to do all the jobs you've mentioned with themyou might need some attachments, run to the kitchen and grab a spatula to do the bulldozer job, but you can do anythingmecha is a nearly universal construction tool
>>23467457yeah. one'd prefer introduction of power armor, if anything. Victory era size MS could've been useful for very basic heavy precision work in open areas though. and some mobile workers were exactly that small size or smaller, see: Balls, the thing Judau & co usedt. ex-construction worker
so I'm just going to piggy back off this thread and ask if anyone saw that anime (miru) made by the heavy machinery company and how it was
>>23467415I would rob so many banks if I had a consturction ms
>>23467457As a construction worker tell me you wouldn't prefer "if only I had bigger hands for this bigger box"Forklift, bulldozer, jackhammering headsAn MS would just be scaling up what a person can do, which is Important for grander projects
>>23479237At least there could be a historical basisFor this>Be militarily sanctioned nation>Desire building MS for military use>Interchange the torsos on modular systems so you have a fuxkton of readily convertible parts distributed while staying within sanctions
no barga?
>>23467415very good at compacting soil?
>>23558281Is there more to that? The text feels like the second half of a conversation
>>23479237That's not a humanoid shape. They made this Zaku into a quadruple amputee, stuck treads on the bottom, and attached a shovel to its shoulders with a bulldozer's arms.
>>23489012I'll never stop being mad
>>23559227he's just like me fr
