Post by tuiee on May 22, 2014 3:18:24 GMT
Look at this first: baystation12.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=10324&hilit=drone
For those of you that don't want to follow the link, here's some delicious copypasta:
So, maintenance drones.
Anyone familiar with the MoMMI concept from /vg/ and Paradise will already know most of what this pitch will contain. Essentially, maintenance drones will be crippled robots whose sole purpose for existing is maintaining and improving the station; it will be a role that offers a chance to help the station out without the stress and responsibilities that come with playing a fully fledged robot or crewmember.
The actual method for becoming a drone or joining as one is still up for discussion. We could take players from ghosts like dionaea, have a central automated production plant that ghosts can click on, all kinds of things.
Now, regarding mechanics.
- CAN BE WORN AS HATS. PRAISE GABEN.
- VERY fragile (30HP).
- No brain. If one dies, it's gone for good.
- Strictly lawed against harming, interfering with or communicating with any being on the station other than fellow drones.
- Unable to communicate with anything but binary talk and say-emotes.
- Equipped similarly to an Engineering borg, but without an RCD, T-ray scanner, fire extinguisher or mesons.
- Equipped with a bottle of space cleaner and a light replacer.
- Equipped with a matter compiler (converts debris and garbage into charges for metal, wood, plastic and glass).
- Equipped with a single hand with limited functionality (place light fixtures and APCs, swap circuits in doors, etc).
- Equipped with magboots.
- Equipped with floor tiles.
- Cannot be upgraded.
- Cannot be subverted via the robot upload console (hacking one to sync it to an AI then subverting the AI will work).
- Can be emagged like other robots (and will in turn gain an emag).
This is about 80% coded and ready for a PR to dev, other than the matter compiler and single-hand manipulator. Discuss.
Yep. We need these something bad, methinks. I'll attach a poll to this post to see whether or not the rest of you feel the same as I do. Additionally, the drones are being included in the next Bay update, but they'll require a special edit to the map in order to be implemented, which is why I'm throwing this suggestion thread up.
For those of you that don't want to follow the link, here's some delicious copypasta:
So, maintenance drones.
1. Preserve, repair and improve the station to the best of your abilities.
2. Cause no harm to the station or anything on it.
3. Interfere with no being that is not a fellow drone.
2. Cause no harm to the station or anything on it.
3. Interfere with no being that is not a fellow drone.
Anyone familiar with the MoMMI concept from /vg/ and Paradise will already know most of what this pitch will contain. Essentially, maintenance drones will be crippled robots whose sole purpose for existing is maintaining and improving the station; it will be a role that offers a chance to help the station out without the stress and responsibilities that come with playing a fully fledged robot or crewmember.
<sitp> so this is like MoMMIs, right?
<Zuhayr> Yep
<Zuhayr> Few mechanical differences
<Zuhayr> But basically the same idea
<sitp> basically just repair little holes and stuff, and don't be a hero even if you see a changeling gorging out on genomes
<Zuhayr> Yep
<sitp> me gusta
<Zuhayr> Build a batcave, replace all the station chairs with comfy armchairs
<Zuhayr> Refloor the civilian area with tasteful wooden panels
<sitp> fix up the genetics room
<sitp> make it a second medbay lounge
<Zuhayr> Yep like that.
<Zuhayr> Yep
<Zuhayr> Few mechanical differences
<Zuhayr> But basically the same idea
<sitp> basically just repair little holes and stuff, and don't be a hero even if you see a changeling gorging out on genomes
<Zuhayr> Yep
<sitp> me gusta
<Zuhayr> Build a batcave, replace all the station chairs with comfy armchairs
<Zuhayr> Refloor the civilian area with tasteful wooden panels
<sitp> fix up the genetics room
<sitp> make it a second medbay lounge
<Zuhayr> Yep like that.
The actual method for becoming a drone or joining as one is still up for discussion. We could take players from ghosts like dionaea, have a central automated production plant that ghosts can click on, all kinds of things.
Now, regarding mechanics.
- CAN BE WORN AS HATS. PRAISE GABEN.
- VERY fragile (30HP).
- No brain. If one dies, it's gone for good.
- Strictly lawed against harming, interfering with or communicating with any being on the station other than fellow drones.
- Unable to communicate with anything but binary talk and say-emotes.
- Equipped similarly to an Engineering borg, but without an RCD, T-ray scanner, fire extinguisher or mesons.
- Equipped with a bottle of space cleaner and a light replacer.
- Equipped with a matter compiler (converts debris and garbage into charges for metal, wood, plastic and glass).
- Equipped with a single hand with limited functionality (place light fixtures and APCs, swap circuits in doors, etc).
- Equipped with magboots.
- Equipped with floor tiles.
- Cannot be upgraded.
- Cannot be subverted via the robot upload console (hacking one to sync it to an AI then subverting the AI will work).
- Can be emagged like other robots (and will in turn gain an emag).
This is about 80% coded and ready for a PR to dev, other than the matter compiler and single-hand manipulator. Discuss.
Yep. We need these something bad, methinks. I'll attach a poll to this post to see whether or not the rest of you feel the same as I do. Additionally, the drones are being included in the next Bay update, but they'll require a special edit to the map in order to be implemented, which is why I'm throwing this suggestion thread up.
