Super Pai (traitor item)

[Atticat]

Ok so what if syndicate could order a "super pai" that had remote abilities such as opening and closing doors, setting you off arrest, and modyifing the atmos alarms from a distance?

It would have to have some neat abilities but not as many as the AI to prevent it from being OP.

What do you think?

[Cik]

might be neat

i wish pAIs were better in general tbh, but yeah super version for a few TCs might be cool

[Tornadium]

might be neat

i wish pAIs were better in general tbh, but yeah super version for a few TCs might be cool

It would need to be more than a few TCs.

Just the opening and closing doors part is massive, it's an emag that leaves no trace.

[Takeguru]

Except for the brute force alert to the AI

[Cik]

it gives an alert to the AI and it's slow as fuck

an emag is incredibly more useful, as is a small amount of engineering knowledge, a screwdriver wirecutter and crowbar.

seriously, you can go through doors much faster with some tools that are freely available to anyone.

[Falamazeer]

It's slow as fuuuuuuuuck to use a Pai, it's literately the single worst way to get through a door I can possibly think of besides ignoring it and trying to cut through an Rwall instead, and even that's arguable depending on how well you remember the order.

[newfren]

It's slow as fuuuuuuuuck to use a Pai, it's literately the single worst way to get through a door I can possibly think of besides ignoring it and trying to cut through an Rwall instead, and even that's arguable depending on how well you remember the order.

I can 100% get through an RWall faster than a pAI can get through a door. It's something like wirecutter screwdriver weld crowbar wrench weld crowbar screwdriver wirecutter wrench screwdriver, with hefty delays on crowbars and moderate delays on welding.

Meanwhile the pAI will be like 70% through the door at that point, having alerted the AI to what you are doing.

[Not-Dorsidarf]

The whole point of this discussion before you three jumped in was adding a "super" pAI that can open doors like a carded AI.

We know a normal pAI is shite, but thats not what the thread is about.

[Anonmare]

Well I can see the appeal but I'm not certain it should open doors exactly like a carded AI can. Give it a datajack but give it more versatility and make it much, much quicker so that it's actually feasible to use. Slot it's jack into a console you don't have access to and tell it to make the changes you want but the downside is that the AI is informed and you need to wait a moment while the pAI decodes the encryption. Maybe it give it more options when it hacks a door, like electrifying or bolting it as well.
It can also have more download options, perhaps something like a Trojan that let's a pAI instantly hack any device it's hacked before at the cost of eating up alot of memory space.

I think there should be a downside though so making it fairly expensive would be one solution. It's also dependant on another player ghost which adds a random variable to their effectiveness. I'm not sure how *much* different they ought to be from pAIs and what kind of downloads there should be. Maybe a voice impersonation module they can use over comms to throw people off a bit longer?

[Takeguru]

As to the ghost thing, I'd say let the tator tot get a refund if no one fills the slot.

[TheNightingale]

An item that, when used on a normal pAI, turns into a Super pAI, could work. You'd need a pAI anyway to pull it off, though.