Now that sounds like a system I would really appreciate. Customizing your robot to the very end. Nice one.
This is a very nice idea, since mechanic pets can become very powerful allies, so they must have some kind of drawback and "the higher the risk, the higher the benefit" is a very interesting concept. Thumbs up, I love it!
I think that we should be able to both mass produce drones and make one fully customizable. I also like the high risk, high benefit part of the pets too.
Oh, that idea is pretty good, we can have a type of drone that can be fully customizable, so up to now, we have: - Drones that can perform attacks manually. -Automatic drones, that can be activated or deactivated. -Drones that can gather data from enemy. -Some drones can build things. -Other drones can create an anti-damage barrier around you -Every drone type can be created with certain materials. -A drone factory for mass producing drones. -An AI configuration system for little robots that emphasizes "the higher the risk, the higher the benefits". -A type of drone that is fully customizable and would fall in a special category. I think this is all, if there is some fact that I may have missed, please, tell me guys.
Machines like in Minecraft that extract materials from grounds and "pump" it into chests could be helpful too
Nice idea, machines that do that kind of stuff would be great too, but I think they fall in a different category, neverthless, it's a great idea! Why don't you make a thread about that? I think people would find that really interesting!
Wouldn't it be wonderful you could have a small swarm of tiny drones like in Gradius' Options or like George's Moromisato Transcendence autons?
Yeah, the auto-drones could move in swarms, they would do little damage but they would slow down the enemy by shooting loads of little energy pellets. It's quite a good idea, thumbs up!
Some drones that you could control for a limited time which you could use to explore a planet, for example...? Now, that would be great
A real example of a drone swarm flying in formations. Would'n't it be cool if they were provided with stings? and fast fire weak laser miniguns? I demand that feature in the game!!!
The energy used by the drones could come directly from you and take up your maximum energy. For example, you have 100 energy. You take along a drone that uses 50 of your energy, so that your maximum energy is now 50.
So at the beginning you can only "summon" few drones and be able to "summon" more drones as you grow stronger? I like the idea!!!!!! Also, you must learn how to use but not to abuse drones so you do not get crunched by multiple drones draining your strenght. This is another "risk vs gain" self-equilibration interesting system.
I like this idea, it would allow a reasonable limit on the amount of drones you could have out at a time while making in game sense. This would also allow the choice of either a lot of weak drones or a single beefed up one, adding a bit more depth.
Sounds great to me, automatic drones limiting your battery power, that is a different way to do it... Very nice, I had thought about making them drain your energy for the time they are being used, but your idea is way better than mine. Also, I like the idea brigan had about limiting how much drones you can summon, but we can merge both ideas, since having drones diminish your maximum battery output would also limit your ability to use drones till you can get battery upgrades, nice!! On a different line, guys, what kind of attacks would you like the manual drones to have? Manual drones would be just... plain weapons, but they would have ranged attacks like fire-based attacks, jolts, sonic attacks... You know, technology that can be used as magic. I had thought about a drone which could create high pressure air fields that would result in a tornado-like effect which would do a little damage and throw your enemies upwards.
What if some of the combat drones could equip player weapons that would only be able to be swapped out at the space station; it would give each drone more than a single use, but not making them a mid battle swiss-army-knife. Drones could also be upgraded in a similar manner as the monster pets are, or rather instead of getting a new drone every tech tier, you just give it new components to power a certain set of stats/attributes up.
Maybe it's just me, but i don't like the idea of mixing drones with the "magic attacks" aspect of the game... it's awesome to have drones as workers, builders, scanners and so, but use 'em to attack, kinda takes the power away from your hand directly... I still think the "magic"in Starbound should be implemented like they did in the Metal Gear series, where bosses have been genetically modified to aquire superhuman abilities, like mind control, etc... Feels better for me this way
That would be mechapets for you, they would be fully equipable and have a wide range of abilities. I found the idea that BriganFilgroinas exposed pretty interesting . My idea wouldn't mix magical attacks and drones, since all they do is based on pure technology, so they are not magical attacks : ). Besides, it would not be taking away combat abilities from you, since drones can be automated or manual, as stated before . Manual drones are just weapons you use, kind of like orbs, but technological and you would be able to perform attacks with them as if they were weapons.
