Engineer QoL
I don't know about the other classes, but I'd like to request some serious quality of life changes for engineers.
I have all my bots now, and they're awesome. They're also nearly unmanageable.
1) Probably most important to me right now is that for some reason they appear in rooms as I'm moving around. Which means I have to stop and carefully examine the fifty bajillion entities in the room to see if any of them aren't my bots. Could they just...not?
2) Similarly, I doubt having giant entourages running around is great for others, spam-wise. Can we get some kind of conceal skill, or general "So-and-so is followed by the clacking clanking of little drone feet" message?
3) No group commands, even old ones like entourage. I have nine bots and have to order them all around one by one.
4) Some of the skills unnecessarily require that you refer to the bots by vnum, when you really shouldn't need to specify a bot at all. eg, Bots Deliver
5) Bots don't like to follow, which is pretty annoying considering the lack of group commands. When drones return from airdrops or UAVs return from deliver, or when you Porthome, could they just automatically step in line?
The Gadgets skillset could use a lot of clarification. At a minimum could we have Gadgets Construct list all the gadgets that can be constructed, or have specific skills in the list that show you that? It took me awhile to figure out that Junkjet is a skill used with the magnotron, which I can apparently build even though I still don't have the Magnotron skill. I still don't know if there's a wormhole gadget, though I've tried to build it several ways.
I have all my bots now, and they're awesome. They're also nearly unmanageable.
1) Probably most important to me right now is that for some reason they appear in rooms as I'm moving around. Which means I have to stop and carefully examine the fifty bajillion entities in the room to see if any of them aren't my bots. Could they just...not?
2) Similarly, I doubt having giant entourages running around is great for others, spam-wise. Can we get some kind of conceal skill, or general "So-and-so is followed by the clacking clanking of little drone feet" message?
3) No group commands, even old ones like entourage. I have nine bots and have to order them all around one by one.
4) Some of the skills unnecessarily require that you refer to the bots by vnum, when you really shouldn't need to specify a bot at all. eg, Bots Deliver
5) Bots don't like to follow, which is pretty annoying considering the lack of group commands. When drones return from airdrops or UAVs return from deliver, or when you Porthome, could they just automatically step in line?
The Gadgets skillset could use a lot of clarification. At a minimum could we have Gadgets Construct list all the gadgets that can be constructed, or have specific skills in the list that show you that? It took me awhile to figure out that Junkjet is a skill used with the magnotron, which I can apparently build even though I still don't have the Magnotron skill. I still don't know if there's a wormhole gadget, though I've tried to build it several ways.
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Turrets are not at all transparent at how they work.
You train for your laser turret early but it doesn't explain how they operate (I still don't know).
I create a laser turret, deploy turret, QPC boost turret, put it in sentrymode.
I then hit a thing with my bots, the turret just sits there like a dead muffin doing nothing.
Does this require focus to work on non naturally hostile mobs? I can't find anything in the help about this.
At least for the early levels, there's an awful lot of hostile monsters called "drone". Unfortunately this also means this people tend to hit engineer drones. If there could be some sort of keyword change or safety added to help out with mistargeting, that would be pretty neat.
Another suggestion: Homeport is almost essential, and I think there's enough starting lessons to get it. Could the battlemaster suggest putting in enough lessons to get homeport?
https://countingdownto.com/?c=2341194
It'd be automatic after like 1-5 minutes, and they auto-undock when you use a command with them.