Giving Roboticists access to Guardbuddies

[Largeamountsofscreaming]

I propose a simple idea that would provide more options for roboticists: Giving them superuser access and allowing them to program guardbuddies. As it stands, guardbuddies are only relegated to the research director and generally underutilized in their department as they share the same space as all of the other, more engaging options of science. Roboticists, on the other hand, have a generally small and underutilized array of smaller robots, with most either being purely cosmetic or situational. By moving guardbuddies to robotics, it allows them to have another facet of their duty that fits both thematically and functionally, without detracting anything science. 

The specifics of this change would go as follows:

- Attach a few guardbuddy charging stations/a small guardbuddy depot to robotics.
- Provide a few modules and guardbuddy parts to every robotics workspace
- Give roboticists superuser access and allow them to program guardbuddies.
- Both the RD and roboticists will be able to create, program, and module swap guardbuddies

[Drunkangel]

My knowledge on guard buddies specifically is poor (though I recognize that if this change happened then I'd probably learn) so I can't really say if I like this idea or not.

BUT if this does happen I suggest also giving traitor robotics access to the syndicate items that mess with guardbuddies

[JORJ949]

Superuser no, that's used for nukeman auth and other command-level dwaine things, though i don't think guardbuddies should really be behind superuser unless its something like the purge command.
But yeah I do think the robot depot should be moved to robotics, science rarely uses it and it gives robotics something to do (sell people little robo buddies)

[Emimiyu]

I would say no, pretty much. Especially knowing that securitron is no longer in robofabs and mass printing securitron roboticist is a hassle for antags.

How is this related? Robuddies have almost the same function as securitron. It can arrest people and the module it had while flash is weaker than baton, some of the existing modules involves stuff such as pancuronium injector and stun tazer. The thing with SU, it can be used to not just make robuddies do heckle and cheer, but it can also used to purged non head and non sec (which securitron also have a function on it too if you set it on lockdown mode). Having three more people with access to do purge, making more powerful securitron that do more than just flash and cuff people, seems like a bad idea.

You can also set it to roam around station so eh.

[Frank_Stein]

I do like the idea of Roboticists having programable robots, but I for more mundane tasks.

Mechanics has a lot of interesting things they can build with components, and I think Robotics could be similar, with different parts they can add to robots to build them for different tasks. Maybe interactions with those different mechanics components as well?

[meaow589]

Superuser no, that's used for nukeman auth and other command-level dwaine things, though i don't think guardbuddies should really be behind superuser unless its something like the purge command.
But yeah I do think the robot depot should be moved to robotics, science rarely uses it and it gives robotics something to do (sell people little robo buddies)

Didn’t effect anything with or without su people can access to it anyway since spoof exit and it easy to do.if they can use terminal so you against this idea because they can access to other device that use su as well.

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Also some of robotic have terminal which is great for place guardbuddy in there may be in robotic supply storage room should be renovate

[Kotlol]

Me: Been suggesting this for atleast years now.

Yes I want this.. Yes in donut 2 and even horizon the guardbuddies were NEXT to robotics far away from science.
Yes people wanted this.
It's just a lot of maps have to be redesigned to encompass it.

[BioFrequency]

I would say no, pretty much. Especially knowing that securitron is no longer in robofabs and mass printing securitron roboticist is a hassle for antags.

How is this related? Robuddies have almost the same function as securitron.

A possible work around to this problem and the fact that Robot Depot is rarely near robotics outside of CoG2 - might be to keep it that way? 

Make the production and deployment of Robuddies something that requires cross departmental cooperation between research and robotics? 

It wouldn't stop spamming Robuddies from being possible. But, I would bet it would make occurrences where that happened infrequent enough that it isn't an issue.