Ghost drones ideas and discussion

[Sundance]

The important interpretation I've learned for law 1 is: don't PREVENT damage to the station (thus interrupting what someone was doing), just fix what occurs. Dragging a bomb offstation (which I did) is a nono.

EDIT: Also what happens when somebody opens a door to let a drone in and some crimer comes rushing in? Bam, human impact that could have been saved. Implicit responsibility for someone's round changing severely (getting whomped by a derringer or something the guy was carrying) vs. not. Drones aren't supposed to have to interact with people. They can't even speak to humans or recognize them by voice, for goodness' sake. Don't make them dependent on people, thus interrupting someone else's dynamic to be forced to pay attention to the drone.

The biggest confusion I've seen people having with law #1 is what Nnystyxx mentioned.

The concern people have with #2 is usually about hacking into places. I have yet to be yelled at for doing so, and I haven't seen anybody else yelled at, so I'm guessing it's fine so long as you don't leave all the doors shocked/open.

I haven't seen anybody have a problem with #3 yet.

The addendum I have for the laws is usually the line I gave above: 'Don't fuck with people's round; you're dead'' along with 'Avoid picking up or moving what you don't have to' or 'Imagine yourself a traitor, and the guy you just blew up came back and removed your other bombs after ghosting around to find them'.

We're like improved floorbots, really.

Re: Nnystyxx's comment on opening doors for drones; if someone opens a door for a drone and gets killed by another person I really don't see it as the drones fault. It's a traitor jumping at an opportunity, the drone just happened to be that opportunistic moment. It doesn't mean he's interacted with the situation firsthand, but rather was caught in the situation.

But yeah, more access for drones would be good. I think access to places such as engineering and QM would be essential for their tasks.

Regards law #2, yeah again it seems the intent. Leaving a shit load of doors shocked is reckless and could be regarded as malicious.

Your other points is kind of worked into the laws themselves. Fucking with peoples rounds could fall into law #1 or law #2 depending on circumstance.
Regards metagaming; I feel a strong bold message on the wiki linking to the rules#metagaming would clear any sort of misunderstanding.