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Cogmind => Ideas => Topic started by: Jeffg10 on November 04, 2017, 05:28:58 PM
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Software - Drives that contain software that can be applied to an item for a small stat boost, wouldn't need to be extremely complicated as the drive would just take up and inventory slot until you use it then the drive locks and is more or less useless (disappears from your inv.) and the stats of an item would change when inspected to reflect it (say have the stats change to a different color like cyan or something to show that they have been modified with software) any amount of software can be applied to one item but given how fast items break it's not a great idea to load all of your software into one item unless you're a hacker that *might* be able to find repair stations
just thought it could be a cool way to spice up items
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Yeah even in the earliest designs for the game, software was a natural possibility considered for inclusion a number of times. Each time I ended up rejecting it because it couldn't perfectly meet all requirements for good lore, logic, mechanics, transparency, and UI.
It's certainly something one feels is missing in a robotic/computer world! At this point an expansion like that, if ever added, would be pretty massive. (Certainly fun to brainstorm about, though!)