Specialized maintenance drones and custom drone sprites.

[shazbot194]

 

I had a thought, maintenance drones are quite good at repairing right now, minus R-walls, but do an ok, sometimes slow, job at cleaning, and in long rounds when I play as a drone, I end up doing a lot more cleaning and light replacement rather than sealing breaches or fixing equipment. The exceptions of course are when there are mass bombings. So I thought what about giving drones some mild side-grades in modules. Stuff such as having a cleaning based drone that trades welder capacity and martial amount for better soap and more spray cleaner. Testing these out, I thought why not have them use different icons depending on module. After tinkering with it, I managed not only to have the different icons based on job, but also the ability to use custom icons, and have multiple people use the same icon, and have one person able to use multiple custom icons (not in the same drone of course). I was wondering if you guys would be at all interested in this. Please give feedback and suggestions.

all made from the drone fabricator

The one on the left is a one with a cleaning module

The center one is a custom icon defined in a config file

The right one is a normal repairbot

 

[MrRogueAce]

 

I say yes to custom sprites cause I made a custom sprite for drones

 

[dadols]

 

I say yes to both;

modules... that`s a great way to ease drones job and custom sprites are just cool