GreenBoi Posted March 24, 2020 Posted March 24, 2020 As it stands, the Icarus is an OOC laughing-stock. It's utterly useless and the most it ever does is get hacked and send malfunctioning drones to the Aurora, so why not have them also send perfectly-functioning drones too? The drones could be set out by Admins, with an announcement transmitted to alert the station crew- or even automatically deployed during Code Red (to best balance this to prevent drones spawning and despawning b/c of code red spam, it could only be one wave of drones that do not return unless an admin calls them back). If it's Delta, the drones could change to attack targets without head-access or titles on their IDs.
Carver Posted March 24, 2020 Posted March 24, 2020 I've always wondered why these drones were never used as a tool for malfs back in the day. It'd also be interesting to see their event as a telecrystal buy-in added to uplinks. As for non-antagonistic uses, the inherent argument is that they're likely designed for ship-to-ship combat and not for intravehicular activity. They also don't exactly have the mob AI to be useful at something like harassing the nuke op or raider shuttles, which would be their ideal IC purpose.
geeves Posted March 24, 2020 Posted March 24, 2020 i accidentally did this PR at the same time you suggested it: https://github.com/Aurorastation/Aurora.3/pull/8499
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