Laser shotgun? You know how lasers work right? Making a shotgun out of them is LoL

You know you can change the size of the white circle right?

What do you mean by "base view"?  Currently the distance at which you see bots depends on the ratio of your signal detection to their signal masking.

So are you suggesting that detector modules should be removed?

Yes I know.

On the contrary, all bots have the same base distance view to see other bots. To give scout bots a unique and more specialized trait they see the furthest that is 1000m base view while all other bots have less. I even recommend mechs to have even lower distance views 600-700m or so to give the smaller bots an edge and get generally more useful. So no signal detector or masking modules have been used yet. That is:

- scout bots 1000m
- all other bots 900-800m
- mech / heavy mech bots 700-600m

In general, like you may have noticed most ideas were already there in one way or other. I advice you to use the related topics to explain it further and for your ideas to be found more easily.

• lwf discussion is a perpetuum mobile *yawn*- if you want to discuss your idea further please use one of the existing topics (recent one) for it and explain it in detail

• aoe attacks/weapons have been asked for a long time now, but somehow I loled at the glue part imagining a puddle of slime being thrown *shudder*; an aoe laser is a completely nogo for me if u think of a simultanious attack on a broader area - laser is highly bundled light, being spread it may only blind you

• what do you mean with the new mantlet? a new outfit for your bot or to be able to switch on field the light frame versus a plated one?

• scout bot: is a light bot (not light ewar) with a detection module not enough or do you want to take their main current purpose?

• salvage bot already asked for recently here and here

• module for liquids? no, we have only three liquids and already separate ammos for them, to introduce a completely new module just for some new optics is an overkill

• base speed for bots is differs already for class; for mkII - they are normally lighter and thus a bit faster, but can equip more, have more hp/cpu/reactor/cargo and have at least one bot bonus more than mkI, do you want to exchange one of the attributes mentionend before for a lighter frame (=faster)?

What I mean is that all bots get a different visibility range from the start before any detecting or masking module is used. And if you do give them a detecting or masking module it is less effective for some bots then before.

You refer to the explanation of the signal detector feature, the formula uses a 1000m range and is fixed for every bot. This  range should be variable for different sized bots at the start before rF value. To allow for specialization and a proper scout bot.

Sure.

Aoe weaponry are really needed. The shotgun laser is not about if it can be done in this world's physics, but if it would be useful on Nia so every faction would have an aoe weapon. I agree the name for the weapon is not so good.

A real mantlet module (like a shield on wheels) or just a deflection plate that can be put in front of the robot (not attached) to deflect attacks.

At the moment there is no specialized robot to be used as a scout bot. I am looking at scanner bonuses and base visibility relatively better to all other bots when no modules are added.

Ok I think that would be a good thing.

Overkill indeed, this is just for looks and fun.

What I mean is take the mk2 bot (=tier 2) and make a lighter variant of it (=tier 1) which has 1 or 2 less slots and has a higher base speed. This way both bots will always be used and one is not better than the other but has a different role / function. The trade off here is slots (=tier 2) versus speed (=tier 1).

The shotgun laser would matter, first as an faction aoe weapon and second for looks and fun. Both are an important factor in my opinion.