Securitrons Need to be Patched

[Frank_Stein]

Making them (and the other various bots for that matter) not directly printable would solve any problems IMO. If I have to manually combine borg arms with bike horns to make an army of emagged ducks then people making an army of emagged secbots should have to put in similar amounts of effort.

This also eliminates a defense for robotics and medbay tho. It also makes things needlessly difficult for people who want to run a sec tron antag emag gimmick, which is secondary but also valid. I don't think adding tedium to the game is the way to go.

I'd propose that sectrons run a check if there are any other units active near them, and go to sleep if there are. Once a sectron is destroyed it sends out a wake signal that is used by the nearest sectron. This waking takes thirty seconds This means if one gets destroyed the destroyer has half a minute to do things before the next is active.

I'd say a mix of this and my idea of having them bump into each other.

I think it would be neat if bots communicated with each other more. In an idle state, they could go into this search mode for other bots in their area they could work with, looking for pings to respond to.

Once locked in on a goal, they try to ignore everything until it's done, but certain things like bumping into each other makes them stop and do a check again for pings, or send out their own pings for help, then either go back to their task or remain idle