Allow pAI to speak on channels

[Sligneris]

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary):
I believe that pAI should be able to speak through the headset of its wearer. For example, a pAI of a Delta Squad Leader would be able to talk through the Delta channel and Command channel, on behalf of Delta Squad Leader.

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole):
Better form of communication for pAIs

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc):
In case of Command headsets, pAIs should be able to set their own settings on heard channels, without being limited to the ones its wearer has set for himself.

[Lostmixup]

This would be so fucking helpful and make them so much more useful. +1

[Feweh]

+1

No one wants to be a pAI really.

[apophis775]

Really, I'd like to remove the pAI, since aliens aren't supposed to be friendly, or communicate with marines anyway...

[Lostmixup]

Really, I'd like to remove the pAI, since aliens aren't supposed to be friendly, or communicate with marines anyway...

In that case make pAI's more useful for the user. Make 'em like PDA's but remove the translator feature. For example, add the ability for pAI's to take ID's to allow them to perform things that person can do. For security they could make people wanted, update security records, etc. For medical they could update medical records and all that. For the commander they could talk on all stations and do whatever the commander let's them have access to.

Just some examples, pAI's need a buff in some way to be useful, already in the alpha they're way more useful being able to move around on their own because if they get stuck they can go else where, or warn someone about something nearby.

[Sligneris]

Really, I'd like to remove the pAI, since aliens aren't supposed to be friendly, or communicate with marines anyway...

Uhmn... Frankly, I recall you said that it's a server RP rather than for simply playing to win and yet, you keep on removing stuff that encourages any form of RP. I can't understand that.

[apophis775]

Um, when have I EVER said the server was for RP and not for playing to win?

You play a role, but your focus, should be completion of your mission, not making Xenos your pets. Friendly Xenos, have been forbidden, for nearly a year now.

[Sligneris]

Ah, you didn't. That does clear it up, then. I must have confused you with Absynth, I suppose. Clear it up with them, in this case.

[apophis775]

Ok, locking this the.

[apophis775]

Unlocked on request...

[Evilkyle24]

+1, the marine I was bound to was dying like ten feet from the shuttle and nobody carries a station bounced radio, so he died while I screamed into the radio for a medic.

[UnknownMurder]

-1
No, because aliens aren't friendly and shouldn't be communicating with pAIs as negotiations. They are a savage race.

[Evilkyle24]

-1
No, because aliens aren't friendly and shouldn't be communicating with pAIs as negotiations. They are a savage race.

Thats not what he's suggesting, he's saying that the PAI should be able to use the carrier's headset to talk to the squad.

[speedybst]

+1 from me, it is always so very annoying to be stuck listening to alpha headsets and being unable to send them the information that could prevent them from walking into a trap. As for the translator, the main reason I get that is the hope that a merciful drone will drag them about and talk after my marine goes down, instead of having to ghost again. And if the xenos don't wanna talk, they just melt you anyway.

[Sligneris]

-1
No, because aliens aren't friendly and shouldn't be communicating with pAIs as negotiations. They are a savage race.

I'd contest the idea that it couldn't happen, but just like we went off-topic before, I'm not going to do so here, as it's not the purpose of this thread, like someone pointed out already.

The suggestion was about pAI assisting marines and talking on marine channels, not about alien contact.

[UnknownMurder]

Oh. That, I can tolerate.

[apophis775]

irrelevent. NO PAI in alpha.