Minions and Units

[Sonata26]

Minions/Unit Ideas

• [ ] Technomnacer
• [ ] Intern
• [ ] various flying worker drones
• [ ] a robot that has an ability to turn into an immobile artillery piece
• [ ] Stationary defenses
• [ ] A tunneling robot with medium-high defense, slow movement, and a tunneling ability that: 1. Mines/Destroys tiles in a 5x5 area, and 2. creates stairs. This would just save time going back and forth between mining, placing stairs, and sending minions down to clear enemies.
• [ ] One-time use robots that can unpack into large multi-tiled drills or prebuilt structures. This would allow bigger and detailed sprites without requiring the player to use the UI to place them, and fun instant structures/bases.

[giovinazzo-kevin]

• [ ] Defense drones that follow your keeper closely, like the spiders from the ring of spider
• [ ] "Prospector" units that can be bought like mercenaries and used to discover/spawn resource veins, like oil and gold
• [ ] Powered robots that draw power from the grid in order to operate
• [ ] "Throwaway" robots that don't draw power from the grid and have a fixed time to live. Maybe they explode on death
• [ ] Robots that draw power from an internal combustion source, such as a wood furnace, and can function while off the grid. When their battery is dead, they must be refueled manually by the keeper or some other unit by transferring the fuel to their inventory

[giovinazzo-kevin]

Should we implement robots as automatons? Each piece has an associated effect. For instance, we can have the tunneling robot have its skills be granted by the drill itself, which would be an automaton piece.

[CountingBeeps]

Not really sure. Some maybe, others not.