On the theme of enhancing Mountaineering:
- Existing jet pack would be the most pragmatic approach on low G worlds so think we are covered there
- A range of guns for firing ropes,
- Used with harness for climbing mechanic for high G worlds where a jet pack would not have the required thrust
- Options to equip a more limited type in the seconday weapon slot and a more powerful type in the main weapon slot
- Limited supply ammo v different length rope options, perhaps some funky but very expensive tech for carbon nano-tube spider webbing v thicker more limited length, would make quite a nice credit sink
- Distance for projectile depends on rope length and gravity ie potential to traverse a canyon or slide down most of the mountain
- Grappling hooks and boot grips added to the suit options to prevent descent while the jet-pack charges or to prevent a fall on high G worlds if the rope and hook fails.
- I've found instances of "ledges" along steep slopes to prevent falling and they make a good target when ascending would be good to see more handcrafted detailing like ledges to be added to slopes.
- Some sort of portable energy device that you could only equip in the main weapon slot, maybe it expands with large solar panels and the portion of energy it produces relates to the amount of light it receives or something that digs into the ground and requires some intial energy to trigger a chemical reaction and takes a while to generate enough charge for a 10% suit supply so it would act more like a base station device for those really long climbs where the SRV cant reach.
- Letter-boxing, probably not plausible with the current tech would be be great to be able to leave behind a personal beacon with note for other CMDRs to stumble arcross maybe has a short-range of only metres so it only gets picked if you climb the same peak.