>>23417431
>With that in mind then, how does that not render mobile suits pointless?
Beside the need to find/make newtype, hope we don't discover a way to hijack funnels, oh wait >>23417287 happened rather quickly after the technology was invented.
Hell, the NT-D basically hijacked the pilot himself to use him as a sensor to kill other newtype.
Best case: You always have a MS in case the funnels run out of energy or the enemy managed to destroy/hijack the bits.

>>23417468
>An increasingly solvable problem with cyber Newtypes,
You mean the costly cyber newtype that often go insane, plus the side effect of implying Zeon was right to push for eugenism?
>which is to say nothing of the apparently growing Newtype populace in Early UC.
Deikun hand typed this.
>What need do you have for mobility when you can just use funnels to take out opponents (far) from MS combat range?
If you manufacture newtype, then your enemies has his own newtype, can detect your MA/MS and have a bigger chance to dodge funnels using a MS, which is a thing newtype can do.
Best case: You use MS to carry the drones instead of a big MA or a warship.
That said It would be refreshing to see a newtype warship where multiple newtypes using expandable remote-shield to counter incoming attack

>>23418180
>problem heavily reduced by simply not having the mobile armor present in the immediate field of action
Lalah had difficulty deploying the funnels/bits further away.
No one can tell oh far Newtype power reach, but unless it's a Axis-shock climax with cheat-mode ON, we didn't see a newtype remote control a drone a million kilometer away.
Some theory imply that Minovsky particles are the medium in which newtype power manifest.