Directive visibility and the AI

[Kaed]

The Directives still could be more visible to heads, like give them something on their PDA, or just a premade printout in the head's offices laying them out.

Also, the AI don't have any way in game to view directives to my knowledge, nor anything in their laws that really even references them. A lot of AI just sort of follow directives as a courtesy because they OOCly know them from the wiki (why do we have to go to the wiki for this..), even though, technically speaking, by the strict definition of their laws, they don't have to pay much attention to them.

Please bring AI a little more up to speed with the last 2+ years of aurora command structure development, with either a law revision or something that works similarly, and a way for them to view the directives. Maybe even a separate directive thing similar to the law manager that lets them state directives for the staff members on request.

[Chada1]

You can print the directives at a paper printer thing, Request console? However I agree it should be more visible. An idea is posters or bulletin boards like Exodus used to have in obscure areas (Xenoarcheology outpost, engineering) to be put into the Auroras' civilian/high traffic areas. I pitched this suggestion to Jackboot before for lore developments, but this for high important directive papers with lore developments as an add-on sounds much better.

On the AI following Directives, the AI serves NanoTrasen as a whole, not just the Station command. So, in theory, you could consider the Station Directives to be from the highest echelons of NT. Thus, extremely important. But that's a stretch. I wouldn't mind a re wording of the laws, but the freedom of AI personality and gameplay (As little as there is) should be preserved IMO.

For an example of serving the company as a whole and not just Command, look at the wording of Protect and Serve. 'Serve/Protect NanoTrasen personnel, with priority as according to their rank and role.'. And arguably the CEO/CCIA are the highest in both rank and role and are presumed to have written the Directives.

[ShameOnTurtles]

I would not mind an AI law rework to be more in line of how we expect AIs to be played. An example of this is that technically AIs should open any door for anyone unless someone of higher rank orders them not to, but that is not considered good AI play for the most part.

Directives are pretty easy to find for those looking for it, but I have nothing against further accessibility. A bulletin board to each department would be a nice implementation, such as Chada suggested, and potentially for the AI a verb.

[Synnono]

These seem more like things with development solutions, rather than actual policy changes. Can we consider moving this to the regular suggestion forum?

[Arrow768]

Yes, thats a not a policy suggestion, but a dev suggestion.

Lets move it.

[Faris]

This is a mechanical suggestion. Moving it.