Goonhub
02-24-2015, 05:23 AM
Yeah, the original post was made off the top of my head, and I don't tend to be very good at being concise. Here's a thorough and hopefully concise list of changes to robotics that I think will help:
- Changing/merging of underused modules (which is almost all of them) to increase usability and functionality, in order to better distinct them from normal crew members of the same job. Some ideas:
- Merge Hydroponics with the former Vendor to make chefborgs.
- Merge Engineering and Construction for repairborgs.
- Merge Medical and Chemistry for scienceborgs. Alternatively, give chemborgs increased functionality with the rest of research, somehow.
- Give the Janitor borgs an increased water tank and possibly a trash compactor, as suggested previously.
- Nerf the infinite-use RCD and patches in some fashion, possibly through making them run on independent charges, to help maintain balance between modules.
- Introduce new robot types (like that brain jar thing that got a lot of hype a while back) to provide alternatives to plain ol' borging.
That should be a good start for giving the roboticists something vaguely productive to do.
- Changing/merging of underused modules (which is almost all of them) to increase usability and functionality, in order to better distinct them from normal crew members of the same job. Some ideas:
- Merge Hydroponics with the former Vendor to make chefborgs.
- Merge Engineering and Construction for repairborgs.
- Merge Medical and Chemistry for scienceborgs. Alternatively, give chemborgs increased functionality with the rest of research, somehow.
- Give the Janitor borgs an increased water tank and possibly a trash compactor, as suggested previously.
- Nerf the infinite-use RCD and patches in some fashion, possibly through making them run on independent charges, to help maintain balance between modules.
- Introduce new robot types (like that brain jar thing that got a lot of hype a while back) to provide alternatives to plain ol' borging.
That should be a good start for giving the roboticists something vaguely productive to do.