MD15 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 04, 2018 9:16 pm
They can learn new tactics and non-combat skills, in fact a lot of them yearn to learn other things than combat however their physical strength and leaning towards a specific weapon is hard coded in, so for example AK-47 will always use an AK-47 and be as physically strong as an AK-47. That was programmed in for the sake of the sport. Or more specifically, marketing for the sport.
I'm sorry, that doesn't make any sense, they're as strong as an AK-47? That's not an answer. How tough are they? How strong are they? What are their frames made of? Are they armored, or do they have to wear armor separately? Do they have targeting programs or do they aim like people do? Internal motion detectors for detecting enemy movement a la a HUD map? Can they improve their abilities through practice, or are there hard caps on performance? Also, if they're capable of learning, they're capable of utilizing other weapons, and since an archaic weapon you can build in your own garage
today is going to be cheaper than a high-performance sentient military android, unless there's some hard, concrete benefit to shelling out more money for a different model, I don't see why, realistically, lower end ones couldn't be outfitted more dynamically and trained through practice with a more diverse array of weaponry, aside from simply being too preoccupied with preserving the nature of the gacha.
There are more that'll open up later, you will be able to get attachments and - though this'll cost more - if you like the AI in one of the bots but want to upgrade them to a higher tier you can port their AI over to a new bot and change what is hard coded.
Attachments for the weapons or for the dolls? And are all the dolls of a particular class exactly identical? That would fly rather in the face of even modern equivalent technology, where cosmetic features are modular and can be largely swapped out for customer preference at time of purchase, unless you're building one already assembled from a store front or second hand. And again, what's the point to upgrading? What does it offer?
The reason why they are using outdated weapons is simply because of marketing once again and because - for the low tiers - it's cheap to produce however the weapons they use are not relics of the ancient past, they are simply recreations. Each bot does have a 'skill' however, those skills being things like grenades, a burst of speed, so on however. Ammunition, grenades, batteries, and repairs are almost always covered by the officials if it's a official tournaments however if you are doing unofficial tournaments/battles typically the loser has to pay.
I wasn't saying that the weapons were originally built three centuries before the RP, just pointing out that many of the designs date back to WWII. The LMG class in particular suffers from this, but no class comes out unscathed. Better, superior weapons, again, could literally be built in an officer's garage for under two hundred dollars, or even bought off the shelf of a gun store for a fraction of the cost of a new doll. Furthermore, realistically speaking, one does not need a special skill to use grenades in combat. They're simple weapons that are easy to use by deliberate design. Now, something like jump jets for a burst of speed, that'd be different, but more likely, it's a modification to a doll body, possibly plug and play with a software update. But either way, skills are not listed in the catalogs and there is no way to see what specific skills an individual doll may have.
Also don't worry! I love answering questions, helps flesh out the lore~!
Then I hope you don't mind all of the extra questions I just dumped on you! I'm very eager for this and have a lovely character concept in mind, I think, but I need more information on how all of this will work. Unfortunately, it sounds like you may be holding just a little tightly to the gacha game mechanics, which don't really necessarily carry over well to a more realistic combat scenario.
