Currently, the Gyro allows you to go anywhere on the ground or water, with no risk of any kind.

Infinite fuel.
Infinite distance.
Infinite cloaking (unless you get out and get targeted).
Bypass cave dangers.
Bypass ocean dangers.
Keeps survivor warm and cozy forever in any environment.
Keeps survivor totally safe from wild encounters even if they drive straight through the dinos fighting each other.

Now thats a lot of things that this ball does that can be seen as cheaty.

Lets give an example of one cheaty thing shall we?

Originally posted by Example:

Driver gets in with a friend, they go down into the most dangerous deadly cave in the map which is also the coldest and has the best loot possible. They drive straight through some extremely dangerous dinos who don't seem to care that a large glass ball with two humans in it just ran straight through it. They park next to the artifact, pop out, both grab it, get back in before any dinos notice them. They go up to the loot crates, loot them, maybe have to kill a dino or two. They leave with loot and artifacts, instead of having to kill and survive 45 extremely deadly creatures they only faced 6. They didn't suffer cold damage because they were in a cozy ball the whole time.

Another? Ok.

Originally posted by ExampleTwo:

Driver starts at the other side of the island by Red Obi. He wants something from carnivore island cave, which would take him a great deal of resources to get there and a lot of dangers. Builds a gyro instead, him and his friend get in with little in supplies. They spend the next however long driving across the island totally and utterly safe, arriving at the ocean they need to cross. They can either hold space to stay on top of the water or they can drive underneath along the bottom. Eventually they get up onto carn island which is flooded with dangers at every turn, they drive straight through the alpha rex that doesn't seem to care a ball of humans ran over its foot. Roll down into the cave quite safely. Grab what they want, kill anything that saw them, and leave back for home.

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So, how do we fix some of this?

Well, the swimming in water can't be fixed, thats hard coded.

Disable the ability to clip through dinos, would be a start.

Disable invisibility, if you touch a normally aggressive dino, causing it to target you. Or add an aggression range similar to the Theriz range that would make dinos see you.

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Most of all, my detailed battery suggestion which would help balance out quite a few portions of this mod and even protect the game from having balls everywhere. I mean, no one wants balls everywhere do they? We'd need a sack for them, and who wants to fiddle with a ball sack trying to get their balls in the right place? Oh ok I'll stop with the joke now. :P

Add an INI option "GyroBatteryPower=Boolean"
If False, it acts as it does now, not using power at all to function.
If True, you turn on its hunger system, renamed to Power. It drains at a rate based on usage.

0.1 while idle would emulate battery drain.
1.0 while being ridden but not moving would emulate running survivor protection systems.
2.0 while "walking" to emulate running the motors.
6.0 while "sprinting" to emulate running the motors hard.

A capacity of 10,800 would allow sprinting for a constant 30 minutes. Walking for 90 minutes. Idle Riding for 3 hours and lastly, idle for 30 hours. So you could lose a sphere somewhere in the game for 30 hours unless you also stocked it with batteries (12 slots), and then maybe extend it to a good 48 hours or so. Maybe more depending on how you decide to set it up.

Starvation would emulate unmaintained decay, allowing it to survive maybe 72 hours total without anyone around to help it before it explodes.

A charge pad would of course, keep the ball fully charged at all times so long as the charge pad its self has power in the form of power or batteries.

If you create your own battery, you could have the batteries refill 10% each time, and not stack, like the base game's Aberration batteries which hold 500 charge per battery. Only your batteries would be charged in the charging pad over a duration of time of having power. Or you could stick with the base game version of the charge batteries though you'd have to have aberration to use gyros in that case which is why I think you should make your own batteries and set up the charge pad in a similar way to holding power and recharging batteries in its inventory and such, who knows how you'll end up doing it if you do.

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As you stated earlier in comments, this is quite a detailed heavy idea that may not be done because of its complexity. I suspect a sizable portion of the people who use this mod would not like it either, I don't know. Which is why I wanted a discussion to see if there are any others who'd say yes to this battery idea or even my other balance suggestions as well.

I couldn't fully give my thoughts in a comment section as it'd get lost over time and all that jazz, and the limited amount of characters made it even harder to do.

If you're a user who loves anything here, comment and let me know which thing and your thoughts!

I also created this; https://www.strawpoll.me/15727183
I don't expect it'll be used all that much. :P (Its multiple choice)