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Bot Capture Missions
I had a neat concept for a new mission type. You would find it in the missions tab as "Drone Reprogramming." Once accepted, it would say "We want to improve protection of our assets in neutral space. Go find and reprogram 5 TyCorp Assaults by hailing them with this message: #systemoverride-password+dx56ok. We will contact you with more information when you complete the mission."
After you hailed them with that message, the bots would re-align to your nation and warp out of the system and dock at the nearest friendly station. After you completed it, the mission computer would pop up like it does in bot combat training and offer you another similar mission.
After you hailed them with that message, the bots would re-align to your nation and warp out of the system and dock at the nearest friendly station. After you completed it, the mission computer would pop up like it does in bot combat training and offer you another similar mission.
To make it interesting you would have to be, say, within a 100m range of the target bot?
Oh. Yes. Zathras wants!
mmm, the mission of certain death. "Find and reprogram Arklan Guardian DE-4THBOT. Get within 100M, stay there for 30 seconds."
actually, it'd be _really_ cool. it'd be the kind of mission you bring out your fancy flying and radar reading abilities for. damn that would be cool.
I'd probably die for a while before getting lucky, but I'd still love it. maybe they also need Orun collectors? :-p
actually, it'd be _really_ cool. it'd be the kind of mission you bring out your fancy flying and radar reading abilities for. damn that would be cool.
I'd probably die for a while before getting lucky, but I'd still love it. maybe they also need Orun collectors? :-p
Sounds fun, perhaps they give you a "transmitter" that you have to equip in a small port like the prospecting missions. Then you have to keep a constant beam on them for the 30 seconds or what ever time is decided while the new software reprograming is uploaded to the bots computer. I like the concept!!!
Then the bots would fight with you.. that would be hilarious - reprogram all the bots in a sector and then become your own hive queen of death, scourging the space lanes!
In all seriousness, this would be an interesting mission. Make a mining beam that locks on to bots instead of roids, make it have a 150m range, and then have a timer start when a player locks on to a bot. Then if they are able to keep the bot within 150m for some time the bot switches. I imagine having to trick bots into asteroids where they can't dodge as well.
What would be even cooler would be if the player bots flew to an empty sector and swarmed. Once they reached a critical mass of about 15 or so, they would head off to attack the queen, whose location is still in their memory. Players could create bot swarms then follow it to the queen, resulting in hilariously awesome combat!
In all seriousness, this would be an interesting mission. Make a mining beam that locks on to bots instead of roids, make it have a 150m range, and then have a timer start when a player locks on to a bot. Then if they are able to keep the bot within 150m for some time the bot switches. I imagine having to trick bots into asteroids where they can't dodge as well.
What would be even cooler would be if the player bots flew to an empty sector and swarmed. Once they reached a critical mass of about 15 or so, they would head off to attack the queen, whose location is still in their memory. Players could create bot swarms then follow it to the queen, resulting in hilariously awesome combat!