Don't be evil KLEI

[Miravlix]

So you add this cute little robot to drop on asteroid, you put it in a research group named friends and then you FREAKING KILL IT.

 

I can't even deconstruct it to pull the "dead goldfish was only sleeping" trick.

[Yunru]

Correction: Then you killed it.

You monster.

[Sith515]

Just put it back into the rover module, smh.

[sakura_sk]

8 hours ago, Sith515 said:

Just put it back into the rover module

I think I saw a rover trying to load itself back in the module. Rover made a crash report... XD

[Miravlix]

A few patches ago the rover could return an load it self into a rocket with the rover module, but that was changed.

 

Since the Rover can't build a rocket platform it's highly unlikely that the rocket with the used rover module is ever going to land on the asteroid, but instead it will return home and get loaded with a new rover. So the loading the rover into a rocket suggestion seems a bit odd the way things work right now.

 

Another "thing" is deconstructing the rover landing module gives you back the 400 copper ore it takes to create a rover? So at the moment you can create unlimited number of roverers after the first.

 

But that has nothing to do with my post and the current mechanics of the little robot having a finite battery, that would be like a xmas movie ending with shooting of father x-mas for trespassing or bambi getting shot.

[Sasza22]

I don`t see anything wrong with having a rover recharge station (maybe usable for fufture robots as well) and giving it a second life picking up asteroid dust or digging stuff deep where there isn`t much oxygen. Make me feel like dropping one on my first asteroid just to have something to work without setting up extra oxygen somewhere.

After the bot serves it`s purpose you should be able to turn it into a decor item. Either put it somewhre as a monument of the first pioneer of this asteroid or use the head as a pedestal item for decor and get some of the resources back.

3 hours ago, Miravlix said:

A few patches ago the rover could return an load it self into a rocket with the rover module, but that was changed.

It would make sense if the rover required more advanced tech and resources to be crafted. Like if we made one in the exosuit forge so it`s not that easy to mass produce them. Then reusability would be a good thing.