Shouldn't drones pick up treasure if they can?

Pedowich · Post by **Pedowich** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 8:06 pm

Also it would be extra rage inducing to lose a miner carrying tech before it docks...

Adept · Post by **Adept** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 12:30 am

Being able to order a drone to a powerup would be nice (I've actually never checked if that works), but there is no reason to make it possible to collect tech with a miner. Too much hassle for no real gain.

Imago · Post by **Imago** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 12:30 am

yea the whole "i think you should be working on something else besides this" attitude has to go. do it your $#@!ing self.

Pedowich · Post by **Pedowich** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 12:35 am

Imago wrote:QUOTE (Imago @ Jul 16 2009, 08:30 PM) yea the whole "i think you should be working on something else besides this" attitude has to go. do it your $#@!ing self.

Do whatever gives you the warm fuzzies.

finnbryant · Post by **finnbryant** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 12:54 pm

i agree with the powerups - yes, tech - no attitude.

picking up tech should remain as something that requires player action, if your team isnt picking up nan2 then they suck and dont deserve it.

powerups could be cool though, would make miner hunting that much more interesting if they could repair magically if you dont pay attention.

Dogbones · Post by **Dogbones** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 7:29 pm

I've always tended towards preferring strategy over luck. Now there is lots of 'luck' in Allegiance in the form of rock placement, etc, but I've always felt neutral about random tech and never liked the powerups. One could argue that if you see a miner heading for a powerup you could try and intercept it and get their first, so there is some 'strategy' involved. But I've always placed powerups in the same category as all those 'power ups' you get in a lot of video games like MarioCart, etc.

I think tech pickups should be left to players as a 'reward' for good team work (as FB says above) and good scouting.

Dog

fuzzylunkin1 · Post by **fuzzylunkin1** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 5:13 am

I think the commander should be able to tell a drone to go to cash or more importantly a power up.

It's not like powerups are too entirely common.

Nothing automatically, though.

Imago · Post by **Imago** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 11:40 pm

so the general consensus is

no change to AI

no tech pickups

pickup cash and power ups

please confirm or deny, i don't want to waste my time on something that won't be accepted by you @#$%@#s.

finnbryant · Post by **finnbryant** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 11:55 pm

i think that seems to be the jist of it, but this is just the dev forum, the moment you try to implement even that reduced shadow of the original idea the rest of the community will jump into a huge whinge fest until its renegated to experimental mode.

Imago · Post by **Imago** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 11:58 pm

heheh so true.

it's gotta be one of those love <-> hate things.