(09-03-2023, 04:26 PM)Paai Wrote: ... but I don't see why that neccessitates drones not being able to be used with brains.
The hardwired SHELL/[AI] prefix to the name of the drone is a pretty clear indicator that it's an AI shell rather than a brain-- it works fine as a tell for who to blame with existing AI-controlled cyborgs.
So having drones as a sort of middle ground where both brains and interfaces work doesn't seem all that harmful to me..
By blurring the lines between what an AI controlled silicon bot thing can do compared to what a singly controlled silicon bot thing can do, it makes balancing significantly harder.
For example, if we split the two entirely we can make decisions about what an AI should be able to do when booping around in its bot by changing what its modules can do, altering health, changing speed, etc.
Those same decisions may not be as fun if we were looking at them from the point of a brain-inserted drone, so we limit what we can do there. For example, we may want the drones to be very physically vulnerable, but cheap to mass produce; a roboticist could churn out a bunch of them and maybe even keeping making them while the AI uses them to throw at some problem or another, each getting destroyed quickly. We would likely not want someone who would be taken out of the round unless their brain was recovered to have the same experience.