You're a giant robot and you want your drone to have weapons? Isn't that like giving a doll a BB gun?
[Navarro laughs a little and waves his hand.]
They wouldn't last long in combat, sorry. The plating we're making now is largely cosmetic and the skeleton still won't take any major weight. It's stronger than the first model, but anything over two hundred pounds and you're talking some issues with the motors.
...Keeping that in mind, you could theoretically outfit it with some handheld weapons and some lightweight armor, but I wouldn't advise linking any sorts of energy shields or weapons to the drone's power cores. The cores could take it, but the relays might end up blowing out on you. The next version will be a bit more durable, but we didn't think we needed to up things to that level with this one.
There's a few reasons for this. One is ease of construction: you guys are getting numerous enough that we're having to put in over a week full-time just to build enough for everyone, plus spares. Second, they're designed for you all to fit in with human-sized dwellings, not fight. Third, well. There's still a lot of people nervous about you robots wandering around. Armed robots wandering around...
[He trails off and shrugs.]
Finally, we're not really getting a whole hell of a lot of feedback on the Model Is other than "They suck" and "You're all incompetent". And the one white and gold guy who keeps breathing heavily and not-too-subtly implying that he'd like to kill someone's drone to see if it zaps the Autobot on the other side. It's honestly a little creepy at this point.
If you guys wanted this to go quicker and get more options you like, I'd suggest giving us some actual feedback and telling us what you'd want to see. We're basically working on making it so you all can interact with people more easily, that's our goal. Anything else, we're just guessing on.
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[Navarro laughs a little and waves his hand.]
They wouldn't last long in combat, sorry. The plating we're making now is largely cosmetic and the skeleton still won't take any major weight. It's stronger than the first model, but anything over two hundred pounds and you're talking some issues with the motors.
...Keeping that in mind, you could theoretically outfit it with some handheld weapons and some lightweight armor, but I wouldn't advise linking any sorts of energy shields or weapons to the drone's power cores. The cores could take it, but the relays might end up blowing out on you. The next version will be a bit more durable, but we didn't think we needed to up things to that level with this one.
There's a few reasons for this. One is ease of construction: you guys are getting numerous enough that we're having to put in over a week full-time just to build enough for everyone, plus spares. Second, they're designed for you all to fit in with human-sized dwellings, not fight. Third, well. There's still a lot of people nervous about you robots wandering around. Armed robots wandering around...
[He trails off and shrugs.]
Finally, we're not really getting a whole hell of a lot of feedback on the Model Is other than "They suck" and "You're all incompetent". And the one white and gold guy who keeps breathing heavily and not-too-subtly implying that he'd like to kill someone's drone to see if it zaps the Autobot on the other side. It's honestly a little creepy at this point.
If you guys wanted this to go quicker and get more options you like, I'd suggest giving us some actual feedback and telling us what you'd want to see. We're basically working on making it so you all can interact with people more easily, that's our goal. Anything else, we're just guessing on.