Specific Drone roles

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FantasticFwoosh
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Specific Drone roles

Post by FantasticFwoosh » #168385

At current drone roles are a purely aesthetic choice between 3 skins for the same job.

My idea is to specialise each model in a particular job that doesn't infringe on their personal engineering knowhow as much as how they apply it.

> Repair drones have the old sheet generation mechanics for repairs that is slow to replenish but initially useful when resources are tight.
> Maintenance drones have in built holo-map of the station in original condition for reference and passive t-ray for comparison
> Scout drones have a station blueprint hardcoded into them that lets them designate new rooms

Given how functionally identical they both are, merging repair and maintenance drones if they were specialised in this way would not be a enourmous step, drones are meant to be disposable and this helps establish that by having a multi-lineal work force, scurrying around doing different things to help the station

Feedback would be appreciated. :tile:

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Re: Specific Drone roles

Post by Remie Richards » #168430

the types you mentioned are intended as skins, and just as skins.
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