Bubble drones
EvilSmoo
Join Date: 2008-02-16 Member: 63662Members
Join Date: 2008-02-16 Member: 63662Members
Not sure how the air-pipe redo is going to shake out. Hopefully nicely.
I did have a notion, though: take the camera drone, combine that with that flexible pipe, and the bubble emission of the purple sponges.
Take a base, generating oxygen or pumping it from the surface. Build a room, or a MFR-wall upgrade that connects to the outside. This device provides an attach point for external pipes and crafts bubble drones, which are basically a camera drone with 2 extra functions: attach pipe, and hold station like beacons.
You launch the first drone, and turn, and attach-pipe to the MFR with the pump attachment. Then you can drive off X meters before the drone leashes, and you hit the anchor button.
Then you launch any other drones. The drones function with an existing drone within max-pipe-length+10 meters or so, so you drive it along the chain, attach to the last drone, and then drive further, and anchor in the water as desired.
Once the drones are anchored, they defend themselves against attack with a short-range shock. Just a minor zap to discourage anything that attacks them, they easily drive off Stalkers, but get smashed by Dragons, not sure if they should be vulnerable to Reapers or not. Uses small amounts of base power.
When the player swims near them or above them, they go active, turn on a green light, and start emitting bubbles, as well as faster fill-up if the player touches them. Uses minor amounts of base power.
Perhaps the camera drones could use the pipe network as well, and go 200m from the nearest pipe drones, as well as 200m from the scanner room?
I did have a notion, though: take the camera drone, combine that with that flexible pipe, and the bubble emission of the purple sponges.
Take a base, generating oxygen or pumping it from the surface. Build a room, or a MFR-wall upgrade that connects to the outside. This device provides an attach point for external pipes and crafts bubble drones, which are basically a camera drone with 2 extra functions: attach pipe, and hold station like beacons.
You launch the first drone, and turn, and attach-pipe to the MFR with the pump attachment. Then you can drive off X meters before the drone leashes, and you hit the anchor button.
Then you launch any other drones. The drones function with an existing drone within max-pipe-length+10 meters or so, so you drive it along the chain, attach to the last drone, and then drive further, and anchor in the water as desired.
Once the drones are anchored, they defend themselves against attack with a short-range shock. Just a minor zap to discourage anything that attacks them, they easily drive off Stalkers, but get smashed by Dragons, not sure if they should be vulnerable to Reapers or not. Uses small amounts of base power.
When the player swims near them or above them, they go active, turn on a green light, and start emitting bubbles, as well as faster fill-up if the player touches them. Uses minor amounts of base power.
Perhaps the camera drones could use the pipe network as well, and go 200m from the nearest pipe drones, as well as 200m from the scanner room?