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Hank (mainframe AI) ([personal profile] lostsymmetry) wrote in [personal profile] reveriemod 2018-05-17 08:04 am (UTC)

That's awesome to hear on both counts! I would like to go ahead with that reward, then. And when time permits, a few followup questions:

1) Are these upgrades something that can be unlocked within the console, or something that requires new hardware hookups in order to work? (I'm asking partly for potential threading, but also for plot curiosity—if the consoles have been internally blocked from accessing systems they could connect to, that has Interesting Implications!)

2) I'm not requesting any of the following now, but for future plotting purposes, I'd be grateful for cost estimates on the following:

  • Life support monitoring - Anything from "how are the air filters doing" to "is the station maintaining adequate heat"—the ability to check on key systems and let people know if they need repairs. If this is something that you'd prefer be broken up into different subsystem categories, that's fine too!
  • Electricals 2: Outlets - The ability to allocate or remove power within normal deviations from stuff plugged into a room. Mostly useful in terms of keeping specific resources going in the event of power difficulty, but in theory if he really wanted to mess up someone's breakfast, he could "unplug" their toaster or something?
  • Electricals 3: Weird Shit! - In his own canon, the mainframe overloads the power circuit to a security droid bay, frying the bot inside in order to assist the game's protagonist. While that's obviously an extreme example and anything involving other players would need to be discussed with them, the ability to overload or generally affect the electrical systems in nonstandard ways is something I'd be curious about further down the road.


Definitely understood that exploration/gameplay might restrict some of these options regardless of the specific cost. Thanks for your time and answers!

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