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Ideas / More Cogmind Suggustions
« on: September 22, 2024, 10:53:38 PM »
Level 3 Recycler units x1 added to research branches. These recycler units will reject foreign components (alien artifacts). For UFD. Sometimes it difficult to get scrapoids on -3,-2,-1 due to the size of the maps – and lack of recycler units on the smaller branch maps doesn’t help either. Kyz’s most recent UFD showed that it can be difficult to UFD in research and access. My own experience is similar.
Trojan(Assimilate) now possible on recycler units. Yes, it is funny to directly take control of many recycler robots. Yes, Trojan reject can pseudo recruit them.
Trojan(Honk) generates a signal every time a recycler successfully deposits an item.
Dataminer should contain some manual bot hacks – the data expunged ones that are mentioned from UFD but not acquirable. Secret should give us some manual bot hacks too. DM knows all.
Imprinter could have former UFD bot that gives a manual hack too. (only if imprinted.) UFD doesn’t get all the fun. Spread the love.
Alien artifacts in section 7 now tagged guarded and unguarded. This can subtly cue newer players to the tag system. All experienced players use the tag system in Section 7 if they can’t ID artifacts right away.
Agree with nerf research behemoth spawn.
Not sure Q/C needs to be 3 slots due to its popularity. I think the consideration that if everyone is doing X, then it needs to be reworked is a fair approach to balance so Cogmind isn’t solved. I think it should remain 2 slots but require evolved weapon slots to be used to its full effect.
Rework Waste allies. Experienced players will always kill waste allies because they will die and leave us with a big alert bill. Purple allies should generate 0 alert if we are 10 tiles away from the source. Instead, they generate alert toward a separate purple alert counter. Additionally, waste allies should give us garrison intel and have us beeline to a garrison – that’s where they shine after all – and WL hates garrisons.
Scrap Engine and Warlord. You can get the event where a thug shows an exit to Warlord, says he’s recruiting, but WL’s scanner rejects you.
“Hey we’re recruiting and we need bots…but **** you for no reason.” Unregistered my bum.
Taking this exit even with SE should let us ally with Warlord if we aren’t RIF or UFD. Other option is this thug won’t show us a WL exit if we are incompatible with WL, but this is a cop out.
Still possible to ECA and UFD. ECA should let us ally with WL while having UFD if we get at least B+ and bring ECA to him. Cogmind, uniter of factions. UFD can bring some dorks to the invasion. WL – I don’t like UFD, but Cogmind compromised enough garrisons so he isn’t exactly a spy. Kinda meh for WL call us a spy while taking notice of us to give us the ECA in the first place.
Alert ID control should prevent the alert gain from destroying walls. It’s a lot of alert from behemoths.
Armory should have a RIF aligner that gives you 2-3 RIF levels. It is a big garrison after all.
Guaranteed main access exits should have a slightly different shade of orange. This cue would let players learn that end of hallway exits are always main. (Didn’t realize this until aoemica explained it in a video.) Hard to learn when you usually go for branches.
Turning off a weapon should prevent it from misfiring if corruption is <5%. Annoying to have micro even with a small amount of corruption.
Trojan(Drone) – Whenever a fabricator makes an item or a non combat robot, it will also produce a basic combat drone. Assault drones will be produced if you have the assault drone bay schematic. Only works if an authchip has not been used to initiate fabrication. Liberated robots will come with a liberated drone, set to guard a random liberated bot.
Trojan(Dataminer) – After exiting a level, for each dm’d terminal, you get one random schematic at that current depths rating, but it also gives you 30 alert for the next zone.
Trojan(Deepnet) – Like Trojan skim, it requires at least 5 terminals. Each deepnet gives you 6,3,1% hacking bonus, permanently.
Trojan(Taunt) - Generates an investigation at the current machine in about a 100 turns. Random insult against Main.C broadcast when the investigation arrives. After 100 taunts, MC will personally come down with his guards, two trackers, two pro T-88, to beat your ****. MC is fortified at 1000 core integrity here. Force(Taunt) also an option, and stacks with Trojan(Taunt). There is a cooldown on the investigation squad right?
Trojan(Track) - works on an any machine, not just terminals.
Trojan(Fry) - requires 7 terminals to get started. Every terminal after the 7th raises the ambient temperature of the entire floor by 10.
Trojan(Assimilate) now possible on recycler units. Yes, it is funny to directly take control of many recycler robots. Yes, Trojan reject can pseudo recruit them.
Trojan(Honk) generates a signal every time a recycler successfully deposits an item.
Dataminer should contain some manual bot hacks – the data expunged ones that are mentioned from UFD but not acquirable. Secret should give us some manual bot hacks too. DM knows all.
Imprinter could have former UFD bot that gives a manual hack too. (only if imprinted.) UFD doesn’t get all the fun. Spread the love.
Alien artifacts in section 7 now tagged guarded and unguarded. This can subtly cue newer players to the tag system. All experienced players use the tag system in Section 7 if they can’t ID artifacts right away.
Agree with nerf research behemoth spawn.
Not sure Q/C needs to be 3 slots due to its popularity. I think the consideration that if everyone is doing X, then it needs to be reworked is a fair approach to balance so Cogmind isn’t solved. I think it should remain 2 slots but require evolved weapon slots to be used to its full effect.
Rework Waste allies. Experienced players will always kill waste allies because they will die and leave us with a big alert bill. Purple allies should generate 0 alert if we are 10 tiles away from the source. Instead, they generate alert toward a separate purple alert counter. Additionally, waste allies should give us garrison intel and have us beeline to a garrison – that’s where they shine after all – and WL hates garrisons.
Scrap Engine and Warlord. You can get the event where a thug shows an exit to Warlord, says he’s recruiting, but WL’s scanner rejects you.
“Hey we’re recruiting and we need bots…but **** you for no reason.” Unregistered my bum.
Taking this exit even with SE should let us ally with Warlord if we aren’t RIF or UFD. Other option is this thug won’t show us a WL exit if we are incompatible with WL, but this is a cop out.
Still possible to ECA and UFD. ECA should let us ally with WL while having UFD if we get at least B+ and bring ECA to him. Cogmind, uniter of factions. UFD can bring some dorks to the invasion. WL – I don’t like UFD, but Cogmind compromised enough garrisons so he isn’t exactly a spy. Kinda meh for WL call us a spy while taking notice of us to give us the ECA in the first place.
Alert ID control should prevent the alert gain from destroying walls. It’s a lot of alert from behemoths.
Armory should have a RIF aligner that gives you 2-3 RIF levels. It is a big garrison after all.
Guaranteed main access exits should have a slightly different shade of orange. This cue would let players learn that end of hallway exits are always main. (Didn’t realize this until aoemica explained it in a video.) Hard to learn when you usually go for branches.
Turning off a weapon should prevent it from misfiring if corruption is <5%. Annoying to have micro even with a small amount of corruption.
Trojan(Drone) – Whenever a fabricator makes an item or a non combat robot, it will also produce a basic combat drone. Assault drones will be produced if you have the assault drone bay schematic. Only works if an authchip has not been used to initiate fabrication. Liberated robots will come with a liberated drone, set to guard a random liberated bot.
Trojan(Dataminer) – After exiting a level, for each dm’d terminal, you get one random schematic at that current depths rating, but it also gives you 30 alert for the next zone.
Trojan(Deepnet) – Like Trojan skim, it requires at least 5 terminals. Each deepnet gives you 6,3,1% hacking bonus, permanently.
Trojan(Taunt) - Generates an investigation at the current machine in about a 100 turns. Random insult against Main.C broadcast when the investigation arrives. After 100 taunts, MC will personally come down with his guards, two trackers, two pro T-88, to beat your ****. MC is fortified at 1000 core integrity here. Force(Taunt) also an option, and stacks with Trojan(Taunt). There is a cooldown on the investigation squad right?
Trojan(Track) - works on an any machine, not just terminals.
Trojan(Fry) - requires 7 terminals to get started. Every terminal after the 7th raises the ambient temperature of the entire floor by 10.
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Ideas / Re: Fabrication Expansion
« on: September 09, 2024, 08:52:23 AM »
Yes. Is it intended that fabrication be limited only to hacker types in research and access? And is the reality of fabrication in research and in access fun?
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Ideas / Re: Fabrication Expansion
« on: September 08, 2024, 08:43:51 AM »
Yea too difficult is relative. The way I weigh it difficulty by prerequisites for a successful fab. Hackware is necessary at higher depths.
Successful fab - You get your item, fab intact, usable for another fabrication, no one immediately near you for combat.
Partially successful fab - you began the fab process, but can't stick around because of the investigation you can't recall - either hackfail or lack of hackware.
Very successful fab - you make your item. But also have enough hacking power to query the network, install liberate.
High Depth fabs often have behemoth nearby, and require hackware. Sometimes even decent hackware can be scare - and I like to keep hackware on as long as I can but sometimes it just isn't enough. And the fight is a non zero cost either.
Lower depth fabs don't require hackware for partial fabs, and much less likely to have moths.
Successful Fabrication in access is impossible - you are lucky to get one fab off if any. Too many patrols, and you can't kill bots fast enough. The alert gain from 1 grunt is pretty high, and its very easy to get into assault range.
While you consider auth chips to be a more of a soft requirement, I consider them a much more stringent requirement. This is due to the fact that I don't just want to fab one thing if I am in a position where I need to fabricate - particularly hacking suits and system shields. Only making one per fab isn't enough.
You have the stats in aggregate and can better decide how to balance fabrication. Though I would be curious as to see the breakdown per depth. Curious about how many players fab stuff after getting schematic from researchers.
Successful fab - You get your item, fab intact, usable for another fabrication, no one immediately near you for combat.
Partially successful fab - you began the fab process, but can't stick around because of the investigation you can't recall - either hackfail or lack of hackware.
Very successful fab - you make your item. But also have enough hacking power to query the network, install liberate.
High Depth fabs often have behemoth nearby, and require hackware. Sometimes even decent hackware can be scare - and I like to keep hackware on as long as I can but sometimes it just isn't enough. And the fight is a non zero cost either.
Lower depth fabs don't require hackware for partial fabs, and much less likely to have moths.
Successful Fabrication in access is impossible - you are lucky to get one fab off if any. Too many patrols, and you can't kill bots fast enough. The alert gain from 1 grunt is pretty high, and its very easy to get into assault range.
While you consider auth chips to be a more of a soft requirement, I consider them a much more stringent requirement. This is due to the fact that I don't just want to fab one thing if I am in a position where I need to fabricate - particularly hacking suits and system shields. Only making one per fab isn't enough.
You have the stats in aggregate and can better decide how to balance fabrication. Though I would be curious as to see the breakdown per depth. Curious about how many players fab stuff after getting schematic from researchers.
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Ideas / Re: Fabrication Expansion
« on: September 07, 2024, 08:39:57 AM »
Thanks for the reply. If you want Fabrication to only be for 1 or 2 parts per run, then you mostly the nail on the head mechanic wise. However, Fabrication at levels -1,-2,-3,-4 is too difficult - especially because you get all the cool schematics in the second half of the game. It just feels bad - especially with TE - all the schematics that you can't use. If authchips had two uses instead of one, this would empower us to better use Fabrication to round out a build. Multiples of one item are okay - its two different devices or processors that would let us have fun.
Matter Fabrication that locks you out of other alignments while limited to rating 2 in Recycling is fair. Everything you make will always be worse than the next floors depth of parts. And Scraptown could just be hostile upon walking in if you now "Fabricator aligned" and react accordingly if you bring in a bunch of allies. It gives us a chance to explore things we otherwise would not be able to, and is consistent with the trade off philosophy.
Not sure how derelict fabrication - even if limited only to mak shift parts - could even fit in with your vision. Matter fab at WL would probably work only because you would have to fully stop the invasion to use the fabs at will...and everything on the ground is probably better than what you could fab. Exiles Fab is fair - you aren't going to have powerful schematics to fully use it.
Authchip free fabrication in a garrison that requires matter but gives additional alert could work. The alert cost is real - and using it could awaken a squad to go to that location. Good luck managing the alert, defending the fab against Ob10. This is really something you should consider - using the fab would have a high skill ceiling, punish greedy players hard. Yea we walk into high SEC with a near perfect build, but that 10k alert isn't going to be easy to clear even with waste diving, or branches.
Matter Fabrication that locks you out of other alignments while limited to rating 2 in Recycling is fair. Everything you make will always be worse than the next floors depth of parts. And Scraptown could just be hostile upon walking in if you now "Fabricator aligned" and react accordingly if you bring in a bunch of allies. It gives us a chance to explore things we otherwise would not be able to, and is consistent with the trade off philosophy.
Not sure how derelict fabrication - even if limited only to mak shift parts - could even fit in with your vision. Matter fab at WL would probably work only because you would have to fully stop the invasion to use the fabs at will...and everything on the ground is probably better than what you could fab. Exiles Fab is fair - you aren't going to have powerful schematics to fully use it.
Authchip free fabrication in a garrison that requires matter but gives additional alert could work. The alert cost is real - and using it could awaken a squad to go to that location. Good luck managing the alert, defending the fab against Ob10. This is really something you should consider - using the fab would have a high skill ceiling, punish greedy players hard. Yea we walk into high SEC with a near perfect build, but that 10k alert isn't going to be easy to clear even with waste diving, or branches.
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Ideas / Fabrication Expansion
« on: September 06, 2024, 05:15:25 PM »Reasoning: Currently Fabrication is fine but very limited, and it is time consuming to obtain all the auth chips. Fabrication after research is also very difficult – auth chips are a must have, but it is difficult to get chips as there aren’t a lot of fabricators to recompile on. Additionally, high level fabricators require hackware to consistently pull off unauthorized fabrication. DSF has authchips but sometimes you don’t want to skip a floor and miss a branch. Previous fabrication required matter pods as a cost. This system does have potential, and should be used as the basis of derelict fabrication. Materials floors and outposts could also have some of these outdated fabricators.
New interact-able machine – Matter Fabricator – Label: E, Color: Orange. This fabricator is specifically designed to be portable and used in Ob10 outposts. Its design was leaked to derelicts, and they use it to fuel their own fabrication. This is an older model of fabricator is limited in what it can fabricate in both rating, efficiency, and time – but its strength is. It can manufacture at is 75% speed. It can only manufacture parts and bots up to rating 4. Its portability makes it useful to bolster fabrication when needed, especially for complex expansion, and holding outposts. But because it is portable it isn’t connected to the Ob10 network – it can be used without tracing. Consequently, all E fabricators are guarded by an operator and a pair of sentries. While it is very powerful to get trace free and auth chip free fabricator – players would still have to work for it. Operators that lock the fab use a static key, which can be retrieved on death. However, the operator won’t stick around after locking and will beeline to the nearest garrison – even if it is sealed.
Derelicts have their own matter-based fabricators with their own restrictions. In the caves, derelict and Ob10 outposts will both have fabricators and will send runners to deliver matter to power their fabricators to build units hold down their positions. Players would be in the middle of Derelict and Ob10 skirmishes to control territory. Derelict Fab rating limit is 6 or 7 depending on the floor.
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Exiles – has an E fabricator. Usage is locked behind Farcom.
Zion – E fabricator always spawns and is guarded. Requires you to imprint to use it.
WR – has 3 E fabricators, Cogmind can only use them if he is not allied with Scraptown or Zion.
UFD – E fabricator in a room with overturned schematics and scrapoids, and a 100% efficient recycler unit. Locks if you become hostile to UFD. Requires you to be aligned. Always spawns.
ZR – E fabricator is usable if not hostile.
DM – E fabricator is limited to rating 3. Full use is locked behind secret. Full use removes rating restriction and speeds it up by 50%.
Cetus – No changes, make implementing easier.
Recycling – E fabricator can only make parts or bots up to rating level 2. Using it installs a Trojan on Cogmind that registers it with the Ob10 complex. (Effectively another alignment.) This makes it harder for all Ob10 bots to lose track of Cogmind. Lose sight radius increases by 2. And all other derelict factions will consider you a non-hostile Ob10 robot. But you can still get ECA, and ECA will overrule this an let you ally with WL. Rif still available. DM will offer to remove the Trojan, and secret there also removes this Trojan. A system shield will always block receiving the Trojan’d alignment via feedback, but it will lose integrity equal to 13 – its rating. (You will be trojan'd with every fabrication operation)
MC: I want to know who is breaking into Recycling and what they are making. So I’m installing a Trojan to help me find them. I’ll even have a full HCP matter pod just to encourage them.
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New item: Derelict Authchip loader device. 100% chance to load in any schematic onto a fabricator, and +30% chance for successful Force(Recompile) and unauthorized fabrication. Can find in Zion, upper caves, in Exiles, in inventory of wild hostile derelicts, and mines. It being a device means you can detach it as needed, and it is now easier to grab authchips. Moreover, speed is relevant as it lets you dodge the investigation. Unauthorized loading is often traceable, and failing to load a schematic on high level fabricators makes it difficult to extract chips. This solves the difficulty of using high level fabricators after research branches.
New special hack schematic – malformed. Hack differs from other hacks as you must acquire the schematic. This schematic is really a Trojan that causes deep changes to fabricator. Loading and fabricating this hack schematic will cause an unauthorized fabrication, and loading chances are no different than loading any other schematic. However, it can be loaded 100% of the time with any authchip. And it executing the fabrication will occur 100% of the time with an authchip, but it does not consume the authchip. Upon successful execution, this hack will speed up any robot production by 5x, but all robots made by the fabricator will be broken, and every part on these robots will be broken. Cogmind can load any robot for free on the malformed fabricator, but execution requires the authchip. The authchip will not be consumed for making broken bots.
Schematic is always available from the DM, WL, and some crazy tinkerer giving it to every derelict he finds. Crazy tinkerer can be found in one place per run but always spawns. Either Scraptown in Abandonware, Storage, Scraplab, Factory pretending to be an operator, in extension jail, or pretending to be a researcher in a Research branch. This tinkerer does spawn with an ID Mask, Mak. hacking suit, datajack, trap extractor, cld. Aerolev Unit, and a Signal Generator, and other CS-55 parts and a broken stasis beam. If you are hostile to UFD or attack him, he will activate a Signal Generator and flee.
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