Biorobot's

[Ferro]

Has anyone else noticed that Biorobots can have very odd flaws?
Very first Biorobot I built:
Gender: Female
Specialization: Medic
Traits: Hypochondriac, Biorobot, Martian born.

I wonder how a robot can be a Hypochondriac, I mean, will it fear that it will suffer a fatal system fault when a servo wears out?

My second one was not specialized with the hypochondriac and loner Trait.
The third is a scientist, with the Melancholic, glutton and gambler trait.

I don't know who but someone must have been high while writing the core programming for these things. I wonder if this is a not so subtle hint of a DLC centered around Synthetics where we can reprogram them to get rid of these flaws.


Oh and is anyone else confused by the fact that these robots need to breath, eat and sleep rather then just leaning against a power outlet for a few hours?

[DVN]

Haven't reached biorobots yet but I would think the "bio" part in biorobot still has the human's restrictions?

[Ferro]

The breakthrough is literally called "The Positronic Brain".

Fans of Star Trek The Next Generation will get the referance; in that show there was an Android who was part of the Bridge Crew, named Data. The show often talked about his positronic brain being an extremely sophisticated computational device capable of artificial sentience. but the fact remained that it is still very much a computer with programming that can be altered.

given that point of referance, having some of these Bioroids have flaws like that, or even the mere 'Idiot' trait seems very odd.

[cattips]

Data had MANY quirks and flaws. I see it.

[neutrino]

Originally posted by Zarra Shimizu:

The breakthrough is literally called "The Positronic Brain".

Fans of Star Trek The Next Generation will get the referance; in that show there was an Android who was part of the Bridge Crew, named Data. The show often talked about his positronic brain being an extremely sophisticated computational device capable of artificial sentience. but the fact remained that it is still very much a computer with programming that can be altered.

given that point of referance, having some of these Bioroids have flaws like that, or even the mere 'Idiot' trait seems very odd.

The late, great Isaac Asimov[en.wikipedia.org] might be offended that you gave them credit for his fictional invention.

[竹筆]

From what I've seen so far, each way to get new colonists of any kind uses the same logic. No matter if it's a child being born, a clone created or a biorobot built. You can actually have an all-female settlement and get a male clone out of the vats...

[Bored Peon]

You realize the thing never dies.....

So having to stick it in a dome to remove a bad trait (and even give it another trait) seems kind of a good trade off.