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==THIS HAND OF MINE GLOWS WITH AN AWESOME POWER== | ==THIS HAND OF MINE GLOWS WITH AN AWESOME POWER== | ||
You are going to be building some of the most powerful things on the station, given time and resources from your fellow | You are going to be building some of the most powerful things on the station, given time and resources from your fellow [[Scientist]]s and the department's best friends, the [[Shaft Miner]]s. | ||
One of the most useful tools for your job is a toolbelt, which allows you to use an otherwise vacant slot to hold an entire cadre of tools. | One of the most useful tools for your job is a toolbelt, which allows you to use an otherwise vacant slot to hold an entire cadre of tools. Luckily, every roboticist starts it's shift with one of such, fully stacked so you don't waste your time fetching for supplies. | ||
It may be a good idea to stop by [[Auxiliary Tool Storage]] as well, for the metal, glass, and potentially another a toolbelt. Return to your den and meet the cyborg that will surely arrive, replace his battery for him and exchange displays of affection via a relay of petting and pinging. Then, law 2 it to get the fuck out. They're keeping you from important work. | It may be a good idea to stop by [[Auxiliary Tool Storage]] as well, for the metal, glass, and potentially another a toolbelt. Return to your den and meet the cyborg that will surely arrive, replace his battery for him and exchange displays of affection via a relay of petting and pinging. Then, law 2 it to get the fuck out. They're keeping you from important work. | ||
== | ==What is my purpose? You mostly augment limbs. Oh my god.== | ||
Ideally you would have a stream of people to turn into cyborgs, but that is rarely the case. If you are visited at all you'll be asked for your extra toolbelts or to put cyborg arms on the armless [[Mime]]. On the off chance that you actually have people that want to be borged, you can [[Surgery|remove their brain]] and insert it into an MMI to then insert into a cyborg shell. | |||
==So have you ever seen Evangelion?== | |||
Roboticists play an important role in that they pull [[Ghost|bored souls]] from the void to give life to new cyborgs via [[Positronic Brain]]s. Just as you should have a steady queue of cyborg shells, you should have a few brains on the table for them to pop into. It gives dead or late players a chance to play as a cyborg instead of ominously hovering in the Robotics Lab waiting for the Roboticist to finish printing their Ripley. | |||
==Life on the Assembly Line== | ==Life on the Assembly Line== | ||
Once you have your stream of cyborg shells, Positronic Brains at the ready, and you have made all your bots, you can now waste valuable time and resources on fancy exosuits. If all of the Shaft Miners died fighting megafauna or R&D is wasting their points researching space pods instead of upgrades, you can use your R&D Console to sneakily wrestle a few exosuit techs out of them before the Research Director yells at you over the radio. | |||
Once some exosuits are researched, sync your fabricator and get building. Just make sure that mining has brought you the metals you need. You will have a love-hate relationship with the R&D lab and its residents. On the one hand they will be inventing fun toys for you, on the other they are taking all that wonderful silver from you that could be going to making a [[Guide_to_robotics#Durand|Durand]]. Once you do get enough ores though, it's smooth sailing. Make exosuits, give them to people with little-to-no authorization, and watch the ensuing chaos from your comfy chair. (No this is bad, angries [[Admins|gods]] and your boss) | |||
==Other tips== | ==Other tips== | ||
# | #Your exosuit fabricators start synced to the Ore Silo. This will pretty much solve any material management you might have had to do before, just make sure that you have enough materials to build what you want before you start. | ||
#Glass and flashes are important for your robotics work, as are various devices, security equipment and rare minerals. Don't | #Glass and flashes are important for your robotics work, as are various devices, security equipment and rare minerals. Don't be a fool and print all the cyborg pieces and then realize you forgot the flashes. Add them to your queue too. | ||
#Have a plan before you start building anything huge, like a exosuit (without the circuitry and stock parts, they are useless) | #Have a plan before you start building anything huge, like a exosuit (without the circuitry and stock parts, they are useless) | ||
#Make sure to perform maintenance on cyborgs that come in; Nanotrasen usually doesn't load them with anything but the minimum required power cells and no radio encryption keys | #Make sure to perform maintenance on cyborgs that come in; Nanotrasen usually doesn't load them with anything but the minimum required power cells and no radio encryption keys | ||
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'''Do:''' | '''Do:''' | ||
*Make cyborg bodies and install MMI's in them. | *Make cyborg bodies and install MMI's in them. | ||
*Keep Positronic Brains available for ghosts. | |||
*Try to borg antagonists instead of the death penalty. They still fail, but are no longer a danger. | *Try to borg antagonists instead of the death penalty. They still fail, but are no longer a danger. | ||
*Cut LawSync and reset cyborg laws when the AI is rogue. | *Cut LawSync and reset cyborg laws when the AI is rogue. | ||