Goonhub
08-15-2016, 06:46 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-15-2016, 07:24 PM by Roomba. Edited 3 times in total.)
Right now, there's 2 to 3 active threads with the theme of 'playing the AI is a living hell that I wouldn't wish upon my worst enemy'. Just hoping player culture improves with regard to this doesn't seem to be working - in fact it's become a common sentiment along the more powergamey crowd that the only worthwhile interaction with the AI is killswitching it asap, and any playstyle that isn't a complete doormat has the entire station rushing to reprogram you into uselessness.
I think a large part of it is due to how easy it is to hack into the AI core on Cog2. If the toolbox at arrivals hasn't been looted, an assistant fresh off the shuttle can break into the upload in five minutes or less. On previous maps you got less people breaking in for laffs and it was a lot easier to hold off the people who did - right now just about everyone has learned to push lockers/canisters around turrets so they can stroll around them. With that ease comes a tide of 'hilarious' meme laws that force the AI to annoy the station. This means that even the people actually good at playing the AI are forced into being useless and actively repulsed by the role, and more often than not the AI is some poor guy who forgot to set it to unwanted and promptly goes braindead.
If the upload/AI chamber was in a location harder to access, it might not fix all the issues currently associated with the role, but it would be a good start. Maybe give the AI its own satellite once more, with the upload located somewhere in the center of the station? Just about anything would be an improvement over the current layout, really.
Unless this issue is addressed, then it won't matter how many drone/bot/borg improvements people come up with, because the stigma associated with playing a silicon is so great people would rather leave the game than play as one, then spend the next round fucking up Robotics in revenge.
I think a large part of it is due to how easy it is to hack into the AI core on Cog2. If the toolbox at arrivals hasn't been looted, an assistant fresh off the shuttle can break into the upload in five minutes or less. On previous maps you got less people breaking in for laffs and it was a lot easier to hold off the people who did - right now just about everyone has learned to push lockers/canisters around turrets so they can stroll around them. With that ease comes a tide of 'hilarious' meme laws that force the AI to annoy the station. This means that even the people actually good at playing the AI are forced into being useless and actively repulsed by the role, and more often than not the AI is some poor guy who forgot to set it to unwanted and promptly goes braindead.
If the upload/AI chamber was in a location harder to access, it might not fix all the issues currently associated with the role, but it would be a good start. Maybe give the AI its own satellite once more, with the upload located somewhere in the center of the station? Just about anything would be an improvement over the current layout, really.
Unless this issue is addressed, then it won't matter how many drone/bot/borg improvements people come up with, because the stigma associated with playing a silicon is so great people would rather leave the game than play as one, then spend the next round fucking up Robotics in revenge.