Goonhub
04-28-2021, 10:58 AM
Ghost drones have a problem, A MAJOR problem as of now. They have simply have way too high potential to Greif and it’s incredibly easy to play one. On my stay in the servers here are a few things I’ve witnessed ghostdrones doing. Making a new air bridge for the ai upload when the old one was retracted, attempting to murder crew members with a bible, and destroying parts of the engine.
Now I’m all for ghost roles that actually allow you to have an impact on the round ghost drones aren’t right for it. Another point I have about them is the first law. The law states “Do not hinder the freedom or actions of the living and other silicons or attempt to intervene in their affairs.” Is incredibly vague and impossible to avoid breaking. If I repaired a damaged hole that would break the law, if I put new flooring on a title that would be breaking the law, if I was a ghost drone and just stood still for 30 minutes I would still be breaking the law.
Another issue with ghost drones is how powerful they are with their tools. They have all sorts of very powerful tools like the rcd, ability to phase through doors, full set of construction tools, and magtractor. These tools make doing harm to the station piss easy or if you want to repair also easy. This is frustrating if you just bombed an important location just to have it repaired by a ghost drone.
So if we decided to axe the ghost drone we should have a good replacement that can have an impact without problems ghostdrones suffer from. One solution proposed by people in the discord was allowing robotics to make hacked siccs that draw ghosts instead of latejoiners. Obviously this would have a few problems mainly due to the fact that borgs are more powerful than drones and have more advanced communication. To combat the first problem we could limit the amount that could be made per round or make them very expensive to make. Second problem with ghost borg communication could be stopped with a law/rule that prevents them from talking about previous lives.
If you have ideas for other replacements and ideas to fix issues please comment them below.
I apologize for bad grammar as this was written in a rush.
Now I’m all for ghost roles that actually allow you to have an impact on the round ghost drones aren’t right for it. Another point I have about them is the first law. The law states “Do not hinder the freedom or actions of the living and other silicons or attempt to intervene in their affairs.” Is incredibly vague and impossible to avoid breaking. If I repaired a damaged hole that would break the law, if I put new flooring on a title that would be breaking the law, if I was a ghost drone and just stood still for 30 minutes I would still be breaking the law.
Another issue with ghost drones is how powerful they are with their tools. They have all sorts of very powerful tools like the rcd, ability to phase through doors, full set of construction tools, and magtractor. These tools make doing harm to the station piss easy or if you want to repair also easy. This is frustrating if you just bombed an important location just to have it repaired by a ghost drone.
So if we decided to axe the ghost drone we should have a good replacement that can have an impact without problems ghostdrones suffer from. One solution proposed by people in the discord was allowing robotics to make hacked siccs that draw ghosts instead of latejoiners. Obviously this would have a few problems mainly due to the fact that borgs are more powerful than drones and have more advanced communication. To combat the first problem we could limit the amount that could be made per round or make them very expensive to make. Second problem with ghost borg communication could be stopped with a law/rule that prevents them from talking about previous lives.
If you have ideas for other replacements and ideas to fix issues please comment them below.
I apologize for bad grammar as this was written in a rush.