Goonhub
07-25-2019, 08:03 PM
Part of the reason behind the math is to make it less easy to pop in a bunch of memorized numbers and steal all the fun things before the rest of the crew even puts on their pants. I know I would.
The process to determine the offsets makes an initial delay between the first dweeb wanting to use the teleporter and them actually using it. Also makes it a bit more evident that some jerk is getting ready to rob the station blind.
The offsets themsel[f/ves] make adjustments less something to do on the fly. Clunky to redirect to a new spot, but great when it gets there. Also to prevent running through a notepad document full of stored coordinates-of-fun-stuff really quickly (though you can still do that, just kinda slowly).
However! I think the AI should be able to bypass the need to use external methods for applying the offsets. It would still need to find the offsets, but once it does, it would just need to put those numbers into a textbox, and the AI would be able to just punch in the actual coordinates just fine.
The process to determine the offsets makes an initial delay between the first dweeb wanting to use the teleporter and them actually using it. Also makes it a bit more evident that some jerk is getting ready to rob the station blind.
The offsets themsel[f/ves] make adjustments less something to do on the fly. Clunky to redirect to a new spot, but great when it gets there. Also to prevent running through a notepad document full of stored coordinates-of-fun-stuff really quickly (though you can still do that, just kinda slowly).
However! I think the AI should be able to bypass the need to use external methods for applying the offsets. It would still need to find the offsets, but once it does, it would just need to put those numbers into a textbox, and the AI would be able to just punch in the actual coordinates just fine.