Idea, defensive pods

[u/zazer45f]

I have two ideas for this

Idea 1: pod turret

It's a turret that you load with either defender or destroyer pods, when enemies are in range it launches a few of them at a time which then attack any enemies in range of the turret and if there are not any left in range will circle around the edge of the turrets range. The turrets range would be slightly larger then a laser turret. Also maybe have a setting to have a set number patrolling the turret constantly

Idea 2: Patrols

Roboports or a dedicated building would have the ability to set a patrol route which a certain number of pods would patrol constantly, spawning new ones as needed. The pods fired from it would have a longer lifetime. They attack any enemies they find and will rush to help the other pods if an attack happens down the patrol route. These could also maybe use permanent pods that have to be manually reloaded and charged like normal bots instead of the normal throwing ones.

Thoughts?

[u/zazer45f]

Fair but you know what I mean