Having the robot worms as pets...

[dax7er]

Hi all, new to forums so correct me if this is in the wrong place or whatnot...

Im probably not one to speak much as I have only just watched the video of the alpha 4 and not yet played it (I know its terrible of me) but just from watching it, an idea came to me. what if you could take the robot worms as prisoners and use them as turrets, as you are able to take others prisoners...

how it would work:

1. I saw in the video that it said later it would be added in so that you could steal research from artefacts and the such. So the first thing in order to take the robot worms would be have to steal research from the artifacts in order to learn about them.

2. obviously to research the stolen research after stealing it

3. build a 'pen' where the robots could power down-recharge from batteries and such.

4. manage to damage but not completely destroy a worm (like the opposing colonies-taking prisoners)

5. using 2 people to haul the robots to a dumping pile (cos all that metal has to be heavy )

6. have a crafter with a level of 15 or higher reconstruct/recode the worms to obey the colonists - similar to socialising with prisoners... takes time (but instead of food this uses metal)

7. have the worm as your 'pet'

could use them as haul mules to allow colonists to haul 4 things on their backs and lead them back to camp and the such

just an idea, and I know it may take quite long to do if implemented but let me know your thoughts

(im not techy either so as far as I know this may or may not even be possible?)

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