Janky Robots deprecated


Adds early game construction robots that are prone to self destruct.

Utilities
5 years ago
0.17
5

i Prohibitive cost in Bobs and Angel's

5 years ago

I tried this mod in a fresh Angelbob run, and I have to report that due to the long time till you get reliable better chip production due to the coal, wood and lead/tin requirements, by the time you can afford to use them to craft throw away bots, the bots are almost obsolete already. Maybe it's just me, but once you are over that first hill, things snowball quickly, and getting to actual equipment and personal bots is a short walk from there.

This could be mitigated somewhat by using a much higher bots per craft setting, but it caps at a very low number.

One could also decrease the starting crash chance, but then why not just use early construction. An unrelated by the way, I'd like to try starting with an even higher chance to crash, but the tech for crash reduction is capped at -10%, and makes this not very viable. This would feel, I hope, like nanobots with more familiar mechanics and better upgrading (start at 90%, get -20% points per tech level or something along those lines).

I guess it's not as noticeable if you use the starting equipment, but I didn't want to, as that would feel way to cheaty / unearned, and too similar to other start with bots mods (where it's far worse as they don't break down, but still).

So my suggestion: either a startup option to use electronic-circuit instead of basic-electronic-circuit-board, or a higher limit for the craft result option, or both; and a higher limit for the crash reduction tech (with a warning that if 4 times this is greater than the starting crash chance, it doesn't make much sense).

5 years ago

Great suggestions. I hadn't played around with bob's and this mod yet, so of course the basic circuits make sense. I also tweaked the settings with regards to destruction chance and research to be more in line with what you mentioned.

I just uploaded the changes, and they seem to be a pretty good balance in the testing I've managed to do so far.

5 years ago

Oooh shiny, I'm excited to test it! :)

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