Goonhub
01-30-2019, 01:06 PM
It is my understanding that one of the technical challenges of making bots as efficient as you're proposing is that you can't send bots long distances for them to travel on their own.
I think that would include making bots in robotics or at the qm and then telling then to go all the way to the bar or something.
What do you think about making those stations also work as teleporters for bots? Maybe the master bot station idea you suggested, will allow bots to teleport out from that to the field stations. Or it could summon a bot from one of those networks so it would return to it's network station and teleport back to the master station.
Also, in terms of the map stuff, it would probably best to give the stations a list of areas that they service(adjacent areas). Every bot already knows which area its in at any given time, as does any pda. It could possibly lead to bot navigation range problems with really long areas, but if you place them in decent spots it probably would be ok.
I think that would include making bots in robotics or at the qm and then telling then to go all the way to the bar or something.
What do you think about making those stations also work as teleporters for bots? Maybe the master bot station idea you suggested, will allow bots to teleport out from that to the field stations. Or it could summon a bot from one of those networks so it would return to it's network station and teleport back to the master station.
Also, in terms of the map stuff, it would probably best to give the stations a list of areas that they service(adjacent areas). Every bot already knows which area its in at any given time, as does any pda. It could possibly lead to bot navigation range problems with really long areas, but if you place them in decent spots it probably would be ok.