Goonhub
01-23-2020, 06:03 AM
I like ghostdrones. I sometimes spawn as a ghostdrone at round start if I feel like not engaging with the station and to kill time. However there's a few issues that i've come across.
Luckily, these issues aren't actually major at all, and for the most part ghostdrones feel balanced.
1. Chargers need to be much much quicker.
Right now, it's much quicker to kill yourself, teleport to the ghost drone factory and respawn. Not ideal.
2. Chargers need a centralized area - Robotics would be ideal
As chargers are kind of spread out in maint across map to map, you're kind of left wondering "hmm where is the nearest charger on this map", and you're kind of poking around maint to see where it is. Again, similar issue arises: Just kill yourself and respawn. If there was one in robotics, this would stop drones from the eternal wonder.
3. AI PDA alerts are linked under the AI EYE - and engineering alerts reach Ghostdrones
This idea actually is useful outside ghostdrones. Currently, the AI PDA can use alerts - medical alerts, engineering alerts, sec alerts. However it doesn't do anything, under testing. This could be changed so that the PDA alerts are actually linked in where the AI EYE is looking, for example, if there's a medical alert in bar and the AI EYE looking there, it will be received by medical.
On this note, the engineering alert could be received by ghost drones.
4. Ghostdrone could have a small little item that sends Engineering alerts.
Not a PDA, just a little item in it's inventory that looks like a controller with a button. Hitting the button will send an engineering alert to the AI / Engineering to it's location, exactly the same as Engineering Alert.
Yes, I know ghostdrones as a concept should not be communicating to the crew whatsoever, however for the most part, ghostdrones go relatively unnoticed, even if they write stuff on the ground with crayons. Ya'll very well behaved, aside from assday.
This ads a little cute feature that the ghostdrone is effectively stating "hey, i'm working on this!" or "hey, lots a damage, could use a hand!", depends how the AI/Engineers want to interpret it.
Luckily, these issues aren't actually major at all, and for the most part ghostdrones feel balanced.
1. Chargers need to be much much quicker.
Right now, it's much quicker to kill yourself, teleport to the ghost drone factory and respawn. Not ideal.
2. Chargers need a centralized area - Robotics would be ideal
As chargers are kind of spread out in maint across map to map, you're kind of left wondering "hmm where is the nearest charger on this map", and you're kind of poking around maint to see where it is. Again, similar issue arises: Just kill yourself and respawn. If there was one in robotics, this would stop drones from the eternal wonder.
3. AI PDA alerts are linked under the AI EYE - and engineering alerts reach Ghostdrones
This idea actually is useful outside ghostdrones. Currently, the AI PDA can use alerts - medical alerts, engineering alerts, sec alerts. However it doesn't do anything, under testing. This could be changed so that the PDA alerts are actually linked in where the AI EYE is looking, for example, if there's a medical alert in bar and the AI EYE looking there, it will be received by medical.
On this note, the engineering alert could be received by ghost drones.
4. Ghostdrone could have a small little item that sends Engineering alerts.
Not a PDA, just a little item in it's inventory that looks like a controller with a button. Hitting the button will send an engineering alert to the AI / Engineering to it's location, exactly the same as Engineering Alert.
Yes, I know ghostdrones as a concept should not be communicating to the crew whatsoever, however for the most part, ghostdrones go relatively unnoticed, even if they write stuff on the ground with crayons. Ya'll very well behaved, aside from assday.
This ads a little cute feature that the ghostdrone is effectively stating "hey, i'm working on this!" or "hey, lots a damage, could use a hand!", depends how the AI/Engineers want to interpret it.