Friday, August 13, 2010

AfterWorld::Three Theories On Robot Hacking

the first theory - robot hacking is a hidden and locked taming profession

very high level of pet taming skill unlocks the robot hacking
all the mobs in the game make up one big ladder and you have to go through all of them from the tiny slugroach to the meanest drone to reach the top

the second theory - robot hacking is a hidden and locked crafting profession

it takes high level in something similar to hacking, like: computers, information, terminal interaction, knowledge, experimentation, etc
seems logical - the crafting is an interesting trade, but pretty soon people are through all that there is to craft, what then?
it would make sense to provide something new to them, some unique field of activity that works like maze or a mindgame - something for the guys with the big heads who don't care much for shooting the big guns

the third theory - robot hacking is a hidden and locked profession,
it requires a certain level in 2 skills from 2 different areas to unlock



however, it is a profession, so there should be some overlapping skills with the other professions
if so then it would show at least a tiny progress on behalf of the other skills that we already have - but it stands on the firm zero... seems the robot hacking is simply not implemented yet

now, from the devs point of view - as a developer i can work on this feature later, when someones skills are coming close to the designated treshold values in my master plan.
i think one day we will open our professions sheet and see that the zero behind the robot hacking is gone..

that day we will know that the bots are online.