SpaceBaa Posted April 30, 2019 Posted April 30, 2019 (edited) Intending to make Maintenance Drones more practical, despite breaking the laws of physics. Maintenance Drones are unable to pull disposal pipe. This is because the pipes are size 10, and drones cannot pull anything larger than themselves, (they're size 3). Law-wise it makes no sense to change this, however it is impractical and makes it impossible for maintenance drones to repair Disposal Pipe, which is one of the most annoying breakages on station, spreading litter in the crew's departments, engineers have to drag over the whole dispensary, pull up the floor etc. So, why not just ignore the laws of physics and let Maintenance Drones pull the pipe that's almost four times as large as they are? If you look at the current code, it looks like someone's already tried to... This doesn't work though. A "fix" is ready in this PR, if desired. I ask that you suspend your disbelief, ignore the fact that drones are moving man-sized steel piping around the station, in the same way we ignore that it is dispensed from the pipe dispenser in infinite quantities - because it is convenient to do so. Edited April 30, 2019 by SpaceBaa Add visualisation
Conspiir Posted April 30, 2019 Posted April 30, 2019 I support this. It makes sense for drones to be able to fix piping. A person choosing to become a drone obviously wants to fix some kind of mess-up on the station. It would suck if that mess up is pipe-related and they're useless.
PoZe Posted May 1, 2019 Posted May 1, 2019 I agree. Pipes are hollow inside, even tho they are heavy - drones can roll them. In worst case I want them at least to be like pushed forward.
Asheram Posted May 1, 2019 Posted May 1, 2019 I support this. Drones are there to fix things, and since disposals is a common enough breakage then let them fix that as needed.
ben10083 Posted May 1, 2019 Posted May 1, 2019 10/10 art work, besides that, I fully agree that they should be able to move pipes.
Shadow7889 Posted May 1, 2019 Posted May 1, 2019 If anyone asks, simply tell them the drone construction model was based off an Old Terran species known as the common ant. That or just attach a nicely powered magnet to the drones butt and be done with it. +1
SpaceBaa Posted May 26, 2019 Author Posted May 26, 2019 This has been implemented \o/ Feel free to move thread.
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