Spacemanspark Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Welcome back to Spark's suggestions Today I am asking to place a single shutter, similar to those the chef can close in their kitchen, in front of the AI core on the satellite. The satellite is woefully under protected as is, and this would go a bit of a way to giving the AI a bit more defense, or at least a bit more time, from assaults onto its core. Metastation already has this, and it doesn't have any real negative impacts on the game. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malphystoh Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Seems legit and simple. Bonus points if the AI can put an emoji on the shutter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eler00 Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 I've never tried to dismantle shutters. Can you break them down with tools? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeanOS Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Who attacks the AI from the front anyway, when you can just thermite your way in from space... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carthusia Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 1 minute ago, BeanOS said: Who attacks the AI from the front anyway, when you can just thermite your way in from space... My personal method is punch a hole 2 layers in at the rear of the at, plant a syndie bomb, annnnnnnnnn, theres nothing left to stop me from getten to the AI heh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkmight9 Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 give the AI sat external turrets (semi sarcastic but I wonder if that'd be a good or bad idea) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carthusia Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 (edited) It really does seem like it needs somthin, again, with the method of breaching the rear of the sat if you had a kill/steal the AI objective, 5 minutes into the round BOOM, done. Perhaps the ability to flood its sat with metal foam as a method to slow down attackers, or even go all GLADOS on people and flood it with neurotoxin "Half serious" Edited January 21, 2020 by BlackDog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeanOS Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Flooding with metal foam would be much better than attempting to slip people coming from space, who most likely have magboots. Most of the times I've had to deal with the AI directly like this, it has been malph, so I just thermite in from the south, disassemble the SMES, thermite that wall between the SMES and the AI and then jobs done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eler00 Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 That's why you call buzzsky to your core chamber, your only mobile asset. More seriously, maybe we should add the thing from other servers where AIs can manually control turrets? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinnikonnie Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 Shutters may be a good idea, but I agree with many people here that the biggest issue is the Space-part. The amounts of time you just helplessly see someone breaking down the walls and constructing walls to block of the turrets is just sad. One EMP grenade and the entire thing goes down (including you). While I personally think that map part may need a redesign or some improvements, the simpler solution may just be to increase the size of the AI sat and put down more turrets so it has a chance against space goers. Maybe even turrets between the walls so you cannot cheese them and they only activate once someone starts deconstructing the walls. The other thing is that any unsynced/emagged borg could literally be told to "go kill the AI" and there is no way for the AI to stop them. A "command only-level " access button for the shutters as proposed may be nice (similar to the turrets for telecomms). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spacemanspark Posted January 22, 2020 Author Share Posted January 22, 2020 While I certainly agree the satellite as a whole is very weak and could use some upgrading overall, this is really just a small suggestion; a discussion about how to change the satellite in general is rather out of scope here and deserves its own thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NTSAM Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 Can't find anything wrong with this idea tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandbag747 Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 On 1/21/2020 at 12:17 PM, BeanOS said: Who attacks the AI from the front anyway, when you can just thermite your way in from space... I get attacked as AI from the front occasionally, it is frustrating defenselessly watching the turrets killed one at a time waiting for death. For some reason getting attacked from the front seems more common for an Antag AI, people aren't trying to be as smart about it they just want to kill the AI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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