Goonhub
01-31-2025, 11:52 PM
I preface this with: Ultimately they don't interest me personally but I think it's great they're in the game and some people love them: But I don't, and I rarely touch them.
I learned how to do the basics with them for mentor stuff, and some basic experimentation with the ammo fabricator for shenanigans. However, I'm not a huge science player and generally feel that robuddies ultimately have limited routes of application for gimmicks. I am ultimately either telling them to follow people, telling them to attack people, or telling them to hang out with me. You can do a lot of fun things with that (and I think the examples you've listed here are really good ones) but ultimately they're a bit like pods to me: You've got some customisation going on and they can be very cooll but ultimately I'm just driving around in them or shooting at people in them, and that doesn't personally interest me as a player.
If I could do more nice stuff with them: Steer them around like a LOGO turtle, make them say things to people, so on, I might have more interest. I might also not. The good thing about ss13 in general as well as goonstation is that it's entirely okay to just not be all that interested in the mechanics of one subdepartment: There's plenty of others to try. It's also great some people are interested in things that others aren't.
But you wanted an answer, so there it is! Perhaps reading through the thread as other people reply will inspire me to rethink my interest in robuddies, or if I'm lucky an encounter with your characters!
I learned how to do the basics with them for mentor stuff, and some basic experimentation with the ammo fabricator for shenanigans. However, I'm not a huge science player and generally feel that robuddies ultimately have limited routes of application for gimmicks. I am ultimately either telling them to follow people, telling them to attack people, or telling them to hang out with me. You can do a lot of fun things with that (and I think the examples you've listed here are really good ones) but ultimately they're a bit like pods to me: You've got some customisation going on and they can be very cooll but ultimately I'm just driving around in them or shooting at people in them, and that doesn't personally interest me as a player.
If I could do more nice stuff with them: Steer them around like a LOGO turtle, make them say things to people, so on, I might have more interest. I might also not. The good thing about ss13 in general as well as goonstation is that it's entirely okay to just not be all that interested in the mechanics of one subdepartment: There's plenty of others to try. It's also great some people are interested in things that others aren't.
But you wanted an answer, so there it is! Perhaps reading through the thread as other people reply will inspire me to rethink my interest in robuddies, or if I'm lucky an encounter with your characters!