Helldivers! I come today to propose an idea that should spread. We all know the DSS by now yes? The mighty battle station of democracy that is used to help us collect the community on target worlds and unleash the might of super earth resources. Well I notice 2 resources going to waste that are not used in the DSS.
As it stands, the Eagles use common, the 380 uses rares and the Blockade uses Requisition slips. Now not counting super credits which are the premium currency, that still leaves Warbond Medals and Super samples as unused, having no Sinks to bleed off excess once all the things that are tied to those things are used up. As someone who plays regularly i often end up sitting with 250/250 warbond medals for months at a time between new warbond releases. Similarly until a tier 6 upgrade package is released for the super destroyers, I have absolutely nothing to spend samples on except the DSS, so why is it only 2 of the 3 sample times are usable for it?
Now I'm not going to claim I know what these two currencies should be used for. Off hand the 3 powers we have are fairly well balanced and helpful. However it does feel like the lack of use of the other 2 easily renewable resources is a waste of potential. Something that feels like it should be rectified, maybe with an MO based around upgrading the DSS with resources from either the illuminate or the bots.
Do I have suggestions? Oh definitely. For super samples there are only 2 things i logically think could help. First, is that it doesn't have a unique power but that donating boosts the other 3 (to 4) powers all at once. Speeding up the process of using the DSS and it's abilities. so you can donate and all other powers would get a proportional amount of boost. I'd also assume the max would be 25 to fit the pattern of 75-50-25 with samples. The other option is some kind of booster to Orbital Lasers. Given that the Orbital laser is pretty much the premier field clearing stratagem i feel like it would make the most sense compared to the Rare sample 380.
As for warbonds, well similar to the supers the idea would be a booster to the other 3, my idea being warbond medals being used to speed up recovery times. After all some times the time it takes for those boosters to start being donated to again can be crippling during MOs. So it would make sense for it to be used to buy the resources needed to speed up the DSS in times of struggle. If you wanted a traditional boost, then i guess the natural choice would be to make it a booster like Req-slips. Maybe even like make it 2, the More Health and More stamina boosters both being active. timed right that would give diver teams up to 7 boosters total which could really see a lot of playing around with booster types if the 3 most basic and helpful boosters don't need to be accounted for. Obviously the max would be 250 like how req-slips can be donated at the max amount you can hold for them.
Again this is all just speculation and I am sure arrowhead could pick much better more logical choices then I can but i still feel like we should bring the idea to the rest of the community and too arrowhead to add these 2 missing resources to teh DSS and it's list of things it can do through community work together.