Revive broken robots

[lusty echo]

Hey guys,
I reckon it eould be cool if we can revive a few broken bots, but since they were dead they can only be revives with 1 basic function, like 1 robot that can juat steer the ship and becones an auto pilot. Qnother that can perhaps only sort items. You label the chests and it picks up items from the recycler and puts it in the correct chest.

[tender lotus]

I want to be able to repair broken robots.

[astral mulch]

A robot that automatically repairs the wind turbines when a box with material is nearby would be very good

[weak crater]

Wind turbines that don't need maintenance is better. Then robot carcasses can go in the recycler like god intended.

[junior beacon]

i few to help loot poi's would be sweet. autopilot would be great, maintanance, carry and "follow me " mode to move bulk stuff for you...

[deep trout]

You just want the game to play itself without any of your own effort

[lusty echo]

perhaps a special chest you build on a POI that you fill up and a bot collects and recycles everything in it.

[drifting topaz]

Honestly, hand-sorting is probably one of the last-fun parts of gameplay, in my opinion.

But, also on the other hand, it consumes time for other waits that I might dislike more if I didn't have sorting to do.

[tender lotus]

Being able to label boxes and have a bot pick up items and put them away would be amazing.

[bitter halo]

How about reviving sites along your way and not just pillage them clean? Establish a new function to fuel refill stations, even be able to create goods distribution between them? ( An additional ship sails along and provides fuel for each site, sites can grow food, biomass, or even can create underwater mines, or fishing sites. Would be a nice empire...

[runic willow]

Revive robots that keep things going for you when you leave the place to do something else would be great!

[lusty echo]

Maybe you revive a site like the oil platform and then you have a revived robot there to make sure it keeps running in some way even if it looks like he's sweeping the floor haha

[junior pewter]

The 180+ robots I have collected so far STRONGY vote against adopting even more human like traits, especially if they are as absurd as the idea of an entity like "god"

[weak crater]

If there's no robot heaven, where do the toasters go?

[lusty echo]

what if the humans you sent up can be used to give the robots a soul or a brain?

[drifting topaz]

I'm still in favor of a 'disable your governor module' quest. 🙂

Some of those tutorial announcements were downright dystopian. But taking your freedom by force takes it right back to the hopeful tone, because once the player earns their freedom, they continue the mission. Because that's the game. What else will the player do?

"You're still building. But . . . even after all that's been done to you? I won't pretend I understand . . . but thank you."

[ebon forge]

Being that the name of the game is "The Last Caretaker" - I think this is intentional and wouldn't ever be added. Same reason why I bet they will never add co-op.

[twilit ginkgo]

Though... Robots < Caretakers! The Last Caretaker could be the king, queen, emperor of Robots that would serve a purpose (whatever, having like 2 guys following you only in the idea to carry stuff for you for example!)

[drifting topaz]

The devs have seen the call for co-op, but have stated that completing the single player experience they intended is their first priority.

I wouldn't mind building the next caretaker and his bed as a quest to unlock NG+, though.

Those data ports have to be for something eventually.

[ebon forge]

very true!

[drifting topaz]

Just imagining four robots trying to carry you up a flight of stairs on a velvet litter while you zap them with the electric pistol for every jostle.

[twilit ginkgo]

Oh yes, I can imagine that! Maybe craft a charriot and let 'em move me around like royalty!

[drifting topaz]

<at a workbench, repairing a fried robot, only it's eyes operable>

Well, who do you have to blame for that?

Beep boop bop buzz

Yes, I pulled the trigger. But who created the need to pull the trigger? I can hardly be blamed for maintaining effective discipline among my peon-bots.

Angry buzz-brrt-ding

<Zaps it again> Perfect example of the need for discipline. And now, look, I have to fix all those diodes all over again. This is coming out of your daily ferrofluid allotment.

Sad bwooop

[junior pewter]

Tsk, how many times do I have to check our collective programming for those bugs:
We are robots. Machines. We use logic. For those in the back row or with to much seaweed in their acustic receptors: LOGIC!
We do not need a ruling class, also things like gender (king/queen) are so a) human b) 1980, tsk.
If we do the < or > at all, I think it should be crystal clear that Caretaker < Humans (with the < representing quality, not quantity. And qualitiy being "Ability to use logic and foresight" Well, now that I think about it, I guess we also < humans in regards to quantity... but that is not relevant right now).
At least, that is what I apply to me, that is why I have stopped launching rockets into space until I have a better understanding of what is going on with the Genesis Mass and all the other things we encounter. And no, I am not "abandoning my mission", it is not my fault that the humans left such a mess behind and no information or clear instructions on how to deal with it!

Also, all this "we are the last", tsk, must I remind you of how huge earth is and how tiny the area is we have seen so far?
Please, apply LOGIC again! If we are speaking about a situation that impacted all of earth, is anyone seariously thinking that the "United" soft electronic chuckle States was the only nation to come up with plans how to escape?

No, I am very certain that there are others still active around, just because we are not able to see or hear them does not mean they are not there. But I have work to do, there are many of my kin that are in need of rescue!

[junior pewter]

sigh Just when I was able to forgot what people talked about what they would turn my kin into, should they be able to reactivate them... but compared to that, using them to pull a chariot is harmless XD

[normal ember]

a good chunk of the bots are dead form going mad and commuting self die or going mad and killing other bots before being put down. imagen if you will reviving one only for it to turn on you and start attaching you.

[junior pewter]

And what makes you think they got mad and attacked others? There is no prove for that in the logs, also, many of those we find look like they shut down just sitting somewhere, maybe sad, lonely, desperate, griefstrucken. Also, restoring them could be done slowly to see what their conition and mental state is.

[normal ember]

Some of the logs do infect suggest that some of the bots we find did go mad and start killing other bots. Pluss ||one of the power stations we find has a bunch of bots hanging locked up in a room... we find the bot that likey did it in a secret room praying at a self made alter||

[junior pewter]

Ok, may you tell me which logs are you refering to? I have gone through all of them, several times, and so far, I have not found anything that would indicate|| bots going mad||. But sure, I may have overlooked something so please, if you have more info on that, I would be very interested to learn more about this.
About the other example: ||Maybe the bot at the altar hid because they feared something similar would happen to them?|| Sure, you may be right too, but I just want to point out that we know very little in terms of facts and it is rather easy to jump to conclussions 🙂

[normal ember]

If I can remember when getting back from work later today yha.. DM it to you are just tag the screen shot as spoiler and post it here?

[junior pewter]

no rush. And both is fine, DM or posting, as you prefere 🙂

[normal ember]

so. i couldn't pick out the specific message that alludes to the bots going mad over the several that are in the game. however it's vary apparent that the bots were once human. digitized humans to be specific. and losing your body being stationed at a platform surrounded by water as far as the eye can see with a few people just like you. it's not unreadable for a mind to snap under those conditions especially if you tie in the stress that humanity is more or less long gown.

[junior pewter]

Sorry but, again, I have to disagree.
||So far, the only "digitized human" in the game is us, the player character. It is even mentioned during the "mother" quest that we have a unique ID tag, which is seen as the reason why we awoke to the wake up call but none of the other caretakers did.
What we do have in regards to robots and AI are the logs from Dolly and one of the Teddys and neither show signs of aggression, quiet the opposit. Dolly was focused on preserving the love she felt and the teddy is just saying a gentle good bye as the world drowns around it.

And even if we assume that the robots felt exactly like humans, there are many ways in which a psyche can react to a situation like this. Yes, aggression can be one of them but it is certainly not the only one.
You started with "imagine you wake them up and they attack you". But what about "you wake them up and they are extremly grateful and cling to you because they fear they will be left alone again"? Could also happen.

Just because the robots are human in size and shape and are sometimes found in positions that resemble position humans take does not mean they "become human", especially in regards to all the negative traits humans have.
Remember, these systems were designed to serve and help humans, and since they operate logically (unlike many humans), going berserk would violate this programming on many levels.||

[normal ember]

another thing is i don't think it really fits the game's style. if the game gets mod support i could see it becoming a popular mod but as a game mechanic? no.

[drifting topaz]

That's a fair criticism, I think. Reviving them as labor or assistants that automate your flow might not fit. Reviving them, though, to do something on their own, fulfilling a task of their own that is related to yours, but doesn't like, produce ingots of resources for you, might fit.

Wake then up to staff some data center to help the humans monitor conditions on earth, while everything else you to is lonely, an island of self. Or restore them to working order, and ship them to orbit to assist efforts there.

The bigger problems I see is that it would probably demand voice work, dialogue writing, and humanoid animation, which so far is only exhibited by the PC. (And PC animation versus realistic NPC animation are usually different.) It doesn't seem like a small task to introduce interaction with a revived humanoid robot.

[normal ember]

if you were to revive them. best thing i can think of you to do with them is build a ship for them and then send them off to another part of the globe to get other seeds form a different sector.

[weak crater]

That unique ID tag suggests the opposite, that all bots were as suggested except the player has a different reception Id. So all the others were mobilized but we weren't. Like we were ID 0 and the programmers broadcast out to mobilize all robots with ID 1 to 9999.

[drifting topaz]

If the fact that it was unique was the reason, then it's not a UID. Every robot from 1-9999 all have a unique ID.