Goonhub
12-30-2014, 10:39 PM
I definitely agree on the point that Roboticists are in dire need of more shit to do. I like the idea of playing as a Roboticist and have tried it, but unless I end up rolling traitor, I have absolutely nothing important to do since no one wants to be borged, the cyborgs tend to be self-sufficient enough, and no one ever tends to need more secbots/medbots/firebots/whateverbots, which inevitably results in me doing shenanigans like trying to assemble the medzord as opposed to actually helping out with the station.
In short, it's a very situational job, and it's a situational job that is best suited for situations that almost never happen.
I should mention that the station already has a bit of a drone problem due to those occasional asshats in telescience who like to spawn the X-Drone every damn round with no one's consent or awareness, nor with any plans of actually bothering to kill the thing. Furthermore, Syndicate drones are basically death to anyone who isn't in a pod, and being able to unleash those things on the station with a bit of construction would be really, really bad, to say nothing of the precariously close medbay.
However, I like the idea of this because it gives the Roboticist something to do in emergency situations. If it's a wizard round or a syndie round, most of the time, you can basically kiss any hope of usefulness that round out of the window, except for maybe your supply of flashes, and something that allows the Roboticist to hunt down antagonists that are unfortunately still human would be very appreciated.
To counteract the potential overpoweredness of this idea, the actual bits and pieces for drone production should be kept by the command, possibly locked up in the armory, so that they can be brought in if there's a really big emergency. Or, instead of this or in addition to this, put some parts out off-station for the adventuring roboticist to find and make cool shit with.
If drone production ends up being a thing, traitor Roboticists should be able to order a fairly pricey item that basically lets them make a more deadly drone, maybe even a direct Syndicate drone.
In short, it's a very situational job, and it's a situational job that is best suited for situations that almost never happen.
I should mention that the station already has a bit of a drone problem due to those occasional asshats in telescience who like to spawn the X-Drone every damn round with no one's consent or awareness, nor with any plans of actually bothering to kill the thing. Furthermore, Syndicate drones are basically death to anyone who isn't in a pod, and being able to unleash those things on the station with a bit of construction would be really, really bad, to say nothing of the precariously close medbay.
However, I like the idea of this because it gives the Roboticist something to do in emergency situations. If it's a wizard round or a syndie round, most of the time, you can basically kiss any hope of usefulness that round out of the window, except for maybe your supply of flashes, and something that allows the Roboticist to hunt down antagonists that are unfortunately still human would be very appreciated.
To counteract the potential overpoweredness of this idea, the actual bits and pieces for drone production should be kept by the command, possibly locked up in the armory, so that they can be brought in if there's a really big emergency. Or, instead of this or in addition to this, put some parts out off-station for the adventuring roboticist to find and make cool shit with.
If drone production ends up being a thing, traitor Roboticists should be able to order a fairly pricey item that basically lets them make a more deadly drone, maybe even a direct Syndicate drone.