11-04-2013, 10:19 AM
Lainge Wrote:Maybe I'm a little biased but I would like the AI to be more threatening.
Taking a page out of System Shock and having the AI as horrifyingly frightening as having Xerxes or Shodan breathing down your neck, giving the AI the option to send the securitrons to locations and having hidden turrets in set locations on the station only usable when a certain protocol is activated.
It's very funny how dangerous players thing the AI is. It's like, I can bolt and shock doors! And if I bolt antagonists in somewhere they can't escape, they'll probably adminhelp it and I'll be shamed as a supercop, regardless of my laws! Borgs are hugely more frightening. I've wondered for a long time if we should maybe have an "emergency powers" module that lets the AI do things like shock all doors with a buttonpress, more directly turn off life support, deploy to a murderbot, etc. An underpowered AI is probably better than an overpowered AI, though. Panopticon tracking is already really potent just by itself.