My idea is you can build a bot which can be viewed and controlled as if it were your character... It could be used from the Space Station to explore a planet and collect some things... Or if your a epic person you can replace yourself with a bot and seal yourself in a room... Ive always liked remote controlled object with a camera cellotaped to it... Ive made a remote helicopter with a realtime camera on it...
While I like the idea behind it, other than visiting completely volatile plants, I wouldn't really see the need for remote controlled hover bots. But what do you think about maybe being able to build a hover bot that would follow you around like an ally. Be able to provide you with warning signs when stealth type enemies are nearby, maybe have a small laser cannon that does a small amount of damage, or you could completely customize the tiny hover bot however you want it to act and feel. Attack Hover Bot, Defensive Hover Bot, Perceptive Hover Bot.. and so on and so forth?
Exactly, and instead of just having one Remote Bot, why not have 2 different variations of the same hover bot. While you are back at base, if you have some soft of satellite or communications center you have a greater span of signal, thereby allowing your hover bot to go to different planets to scope things out, but while you are patrolling a planet, you can put your character in a temporary hiding spot and then control your hover bot to scan around like a scout. Fair warning though, while your hoverbot is out scouting around, your character becomes immobile and just sits there waiting where you left him, leaving him unprotected and defenseless. If he gets attacked, I think the hoverbot should have a way of providing an alert for you to know if this is happening.
I think the best way to handle this would be a small screen that shows your character and his immediate surroundings and/or a sudden flash of static with the bot jerking in some random direction. This, so much this. Make it so that theres a base hoverbot that might even do nothing but fly around a small area at first, but as you find and make more things you can start upgrading it. Give it an antenna so you can control it, a satellite in your base so you don't have to be by its side, a grapple arm so it can grab some items, lasers to defend itself against those pesky penguins.... Man, I want one of these.
