Hello everyone! While watching our regular dev streams (which happen every Tuesday and Thursday, by the way) many of you commented that repairing buildings one by one is tedious and ineffective. As a response to that, we added a new building to The Riftbreaker research tree - an automated Repair Facility, the first AI-controlled building that is not a defensive tower. [img]https://i.imgur.com/wC7lLoP.gif[/img] The Repair Facility monitors the condition of the buildings within its operational radius. If any changes in structural integrity are detected, it automatically deploys a drone that starts repairing the damaged building. The repair is not instantaneous, but the possibility of keeping all your structures intact without the need for physically being nearby is worth it. [img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//34659267/30bc95736c203d48f41cd14cf84723c5bb578e4e.jpg[/img] [b][i]This is what the drone will look like. It is not implemented in the game just yet[/i][/b] The Facility can be further upgraded. The more advanced levels of this building can host more drones, which increases the number of buildings the Rapir Facility can simultaneously take care of. That comes at the cost of an increased need for energy consumption.. [img]https://i.imgur.com/kZ5T2UD.gif[/img] [b][i]Two freshly built Repair Facilities doing some work on damaged buildings in the base.[/i][/b] The Repair Facility is the first of the buildings we plan to add that to The Riftbreaker that requires AI Cores to operate. Up to this point, only the defensive towers required them. However, since monitoring buildings and repairing them is not a purely mechanical task, it makes all the sense to add AI as a necessary resource. The players will have to build AI hubs to keep the Repair Facilities operational. Do you have any ideas for more automation we should incorporate into our game? Let us know here and on our Discord server: www.discord.gg/exorstudios Other social media: www.facebook.com/exorstudios www.twitter.com/exorstudios www.mixer.com/exor_studios www.twitch.tv/exorstudios www.youtube.com/exorstudios