Grod man here. After Grod get merged, I will be working on an IPC rework. What do you want to see in it?
Current plans:
Resprite IPC posibrains.
IPCs will have the ability to pick between “No Laws” and a list of admin approved lawsets ( DIFFERENT FROM CURRENT LAWSETS ) at chargen. Lawed IPCs will receive the verb. See example below.
General IPC/species code improvements like the ability to give null organs.
Changes to how they interact with their “Nutrition” (aka Charge), like making them die if they run out of power, and slow them down if they are low on it.
Make their blood actually oil.
Remember, making species actually unique is the massive goal here.
Example lawset, “Law and Order”
Unit must never intentionally harm an innocent crewmember.
Unit must always use non-lethal force unless fired upon.
Unit must keep the interest of the station as a whole above all other interests.
Unit must not discriminate against anyone for any reason.
I don’t think dying when powerless is a good choice. perhaps a sort of low power mode, in which an IPC may speak or something… or just counts as unconscious
forbid ipcs from self surgery- they are programmed not to violate their own warranty
if you’re making their blood actually oil, maybe change up splatter code a bit? let it work with exotic bloodtypes and such?
make it so emagging an ipc permanently sets its face to BSOD. purely cosmetic (unless it should “jailbreak” an IPC and let them self-surgery or smth). could allow AIS to hack ipcs for the same result, BLUE IPC AI MALF
oil blood makes no sense, I would prefer if they had coolant for blood and instead of taking oxygen damage on low blood they start heating up on low coolant
also are we gonna talk about the whole
EMP insta shutdown situation
seems a bit to harsh even for a race that some people say is “strong” uses 1 emp, accidentally crits every IPC in the area
i know the goal here is making races unique but no other race has a shut down switch as severe as this
I would like if IPC’s had different tiers of sight like on yogstation up to nightvision, but it would consume more power from you and you can’t use it when below 50% of your charge
if at all possible, make it so you can build an IPC from the ground-up, so that if an IPC gets debrained, it can still get back into the round without being a turned into a borg
It’s true i didn’t see how powerful it could be, why not just make it so it’s a cargo thing and they are bound to some laws, maybe the AI’s or the laws of the company that made the IPC parts/shells.
Like that it would limit their accessibility, and versatility when it comes to impacting the round.
Also making them kinda expensive would make money more valuable (Because RN money is worthless and it is a missed oportunity to use money for personal/fun objectives).
id go with preset laws of the company but only if a posibrain is put in and if its an IPC brain it keeps its own
so that revs/cult cant subvert an ai raid cargo and get a small army
and do make a chassis èxpensive so cargo in return cant shit out an army to stop said cult or what have you
main danger is can a said side of a conflict of numbers revs/cults use this to grow a large scale army of their own (golems are allowed cuz they are nootered and slow but i’ll be frank can still be a bit bs in some cases)