Idea: Perk, that spawns early game personal construction drones.
Can be enabled/disabled, does not require equipment.
Does not take place in inventory.
Maybe dedicating new tree for it.
Upgrades should increase amount of drones, their speed and capacity.
Increasing cost of upgrades, so it is easy and usefull at the start but expensive to scale (exponetially or close), so it does not make usual drones obsolete for a long time.
Can totaly remove needs for regular personal drones, but require tons of points and mostly endgame goal.
Possible properties: (just everything I thought, may contain a lot of bad, incompatible and controversial ideas. Just choose what you like, if any):
- Timed perk. Activates for seveal seconds, than cooldowns. Both parameter improvable via perks (up to 0 sec cooldown, making it constant in lategame)
- use construction aura instead of drones - slowly automatically builds/destroys plans around player in some visible radius. I think this is interesting and kinda unique way, and better, than using plain drones.
- one time activation with cooldown: constructs all plans instantly in a radius by button press, than immidiately goes into cooldown (like any item activation basically). Also interesting alternative for the above suggestion, but may feel cheaty and less practical at the same time.
- Spawns/despawns helper drones (check "Companion Drones" mod for reference idea). Those can be upgraded via perks in different trees (combat, construction, mining etc) instead of personal equipment, so it's a part of bigger idea, but is also something that was made before in similar ways.
