Snoopy11 Posted October 6, 2016 Posted October 6, 2016 Currently when disabled through any means, other than of course, temporary stuns like flashing or a small EMP that doesn't drain it's battery completely, borgs are left in a state where they cannot see, hear, or listen to anything that's going on- this makes sense from the perspective of their body, but OOCly it's a tad bit shit to get stuck in that position where you really can't see anything; which leaves us with the decision, should we ghost to actually see something, or further wait the time for someone to maybe rescue us. I've been caught in situations where the messaging server is down, and the current ongoings haven't resolved for thirty minutes or more. This leaves you in the position, do you ghost to watch the round, whereupon you can no longer contribute if your body is inevitably moved or repaired, as you can no longer repair it. This is my suggestion, the idea I had in mind would be the same mechanics or similar mechanics as the AI has when it begins losing power. After a certain amount of time, the brain will go into a low-power state also, ghosting the player, but keeping it assigned as their corpse. The brain or circuit board will require some kind of power, possibly sticking them into a recharger, or even the AI restorer? Maybe a shitty idea, but one I felt might be needed?
SomeoneOutTher3 Posted October 6, 2016 Posted October 6, 2016 Currently when disabled through any means, other than of course, temporary stuns like flashing or a small EMP that doesn't drain it's battery completely, borgs are left in a state where they cannot see, hear, or listen to anything that's going on- this makes sense from the perspective of their body, but OOCly it's a tad bit shit to get stuck in that position where you really can't see anything; which leaves us with the decision, should we ghost to actually see something, or further wait the time for someone to maybe rescue us. I've been caught in situations where the messaging server is down, and the current ongoings haven't resolved for thirty minutes or more. This leaves you in the position, do you ghost to watch the round, whereupon you can no longer contribute if your body is inevitably moved or repaired, as you can no longer repair it. This is my suggestion, the idea I had in mind would be the same mechanics or similar mechanics as the AI has when it begins losing power. After a certain amount of time, the brain will go into a low-power state also, ghosting the player, but keeping it assigned as their corpse. The brain or circuit board will require some kind of power, possibly sticking them into a recharger, or even the AI restorer? Maybe a shitty idea, but one I felt might be needed? You can already bring back unpowered borgs if they ghost. To do this,robotics has to print an emergency restart board and use it on the borg that has ghosted, this will place the ghost back in the borg body.
Snoopy11 Posted October 6, 2016 Author Posted October 6, 2016 You can already bring back unpowered borgs if they ghost. To do this,robotics has to print an emergency restart board and use it on the borg that has ghosted, this will place the ghost back in the borg body. Well fuck, that's news to me. This suggestion seems moot then.
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