Scarcity - Destructible Power Armor and More

When a Power Armor piece is destroyed, it's really destroyed.

No silly zero-weight, zero-health inventory entry, with the broken pieces of it on the ground.

what the hell am i carrying

Maybe now there can be some meaning and purpose to the ten jillion PA suits around the Commonwealth.

Fusion cores are also more rare, and will have a random charge -

not be "almost always 100% and sometimes 50%." (I did not edit cells or touch the various placed cores.)

So why use it now?

Scarcity's Power Armor is much more protective than Vanilla PA, preventing more damage from reaching the player, and grants immunity to poison and acid, when in good condition. But as its condition degrades, so does its protection. A completely banged-up suit of Scarcity armor will protect you less than Vanilla PA.

And it will cost you more to repair.

You can no longer fix the most advanced infantry weapon ever created by slapping 4 tin cans together.

Instead of "4 steel," repair requirements have been made meaningful, using better components.

Power Armor will protect you well - as long as you maintain it well.

And maintaining it will no longer be trivial.

For example: if any piece goes red, then the suit's seals are broken, you get a warning alarm, and you lose the poison/acid immunity (along with the decreased damage resistance). Thusly:

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Oh, and... yes, NPCs get the added protection as well. You're going to have to blow someone's helmet off before you can shoot them in the head...

Two main versions available:

Power Armor only:

Doesn't touch general loot rules. Compatible with loot-changing mods and overhauls.

Random Fusion Core changes are kept.

Full version with extensive changes to leveled lists, requiring higher levels for better loot.

The PA-Only version's Fusion Core changes edits a single record of "what kind of FC just dropped?" and is therefore safe with any other Loot mod - FROST, Horizon, whathaveyou. Put the PA version after any overhaul; it only modifies Vanilla Power Armor and the Fusion Core drops, so putting it second ensures the FC change carries over. Ho