AI/Roboticist Upgrade

[RedbeardRum]

So your idea is to take away the few advantages an AI player has and make more pointless busywork/waiting around for roboticists?

No. Consider the AI in its current state to be similar to the singularity being set up before anyone arrived on the station. By forcing engineers to set up the engine, it could be considered giving them pointless busywork. Just to point out that your point is more an opposition to change in general, than to this change in particular, and uh, hopefully add another perspective.

But, with this upgrade, the AI would be gaining more abilities, and as such, have more advantages. I haven't had a round as a roboticist where I haven't had a lot of spare time on my hands, and that's with doing my job properly. Most of my time was spent either waiting around for borgs to come back for servicing, or doing things that weren't strictly related to my job. So, I don't think adding more purpose to their job would be a particularly bad thing. Installing all of the upgrades wouldn't be necessary, and I can't imagine people bothering with that each round - but I'd assume that the two current default abilities would be inexpensive, so it wouldn't be much of an issue for a roboticist to set those up at the start of the round. But, if everyone agrees that taking away its current all seeing vision is unfair, then that part could be easily written off - I still think the other upgrades should be considered.

sweet ideas

Bitchin' examples of new advantages here.