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A Repair Bot
So, we have lots of different types of gameplay, but we only have combat based support ships... The furies, and the ai combat ships from the orion mission, but i was thinking... Why no utility based bots to support us?
I would like to suggest that we have access to a bot similar in nature to the furies, but one which instead of having weapons, has a repair gun. Or, even, potentially a mining beam... Have the bot configurable via a mission interface, and simply select a mining beam or a rep gun.
As furies are combat based, it makes sense to have a geoup of them, but this idea seems to suggest a single bot to me. One bot offering reps to your capship would be cool, but not something which would make player repping useless - where as a trio would be a little too fast with repairs, and allow a capship to be back in battle a little too quickly.
An interesting idea might be to link it in to the aeolus rep turret idea, make it an aeolus manu bot, accessable in helios at the remote aeolus station there. Might bring more activity to an otherwise inactive system too :)
The bots stats should be something like this...
Powercell = fastcharge
Equipment = aeolus light rep gun (without ammo limits) or a single mk2 mining beam
Health = low! 3000hp maybe
thrust and speeds = equivalent to something like a rev c.
Appearance = could be as simple as using a turret model or something.
As a sideline suggestion, i would also like to suggest allowing a command for furies and other commandable ships to be directed to dock in the players capship. Assuming there is space, of course.
I would like to suggest that we have access to a bot similar in nature to the furies, but one which instead of having weapons, has a repair gun. Or, even, potentially a mining beam... Have the bot configurable via a mission interface, and simply select a mining beam or a rep gun.
As furies are combat based, it makes sense to have a geoup of them, but this idea seems to suggest a single bot to me. One bot offering reps to your capship would be cool, but not something which would make player repping useless - where as a trio would be a little too fast with repairs, and allow a capship to be back in battle a little too quickly.
An interesting idea might be to link it in to the aeolus rep turret idea, make it an aeolus manu bot, accessable in helios at the remote aeolus station there. Might bring more activity to an otherwise inactive system too :)
The bots stats should be something like this...
Powercell = fastcharge
Equipment = aeolus light rep gun (without ammo limits) or a single mk2 mining beam
Health = low! 3000hp maybe
thrust and speeds = equivalent to something like a rev c.
Appearance = could be as simple as using a turret model or something.
As a sideline suggestion, i would also like to suggest allowing a command for furies and other commandable ships to be directed to dock in the players capship. Assuming there is space, of course.
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+1, especially with making more content for Boatania/Helios
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+1 and what Luxen said.
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