Hypothesis on Burden

[Kristal]

It's buried somewhere in the huge PUP thread in General I think, but the text was pretty much copied verbatim to several wikis:

The automaton periodically checks the information around the automaton and decides its next move (if HP took a hit, it will cure, if TP has been saved up, it will perform a WS, etc.).

When using the Tactical Processor the frequency of these checks is increased and allows the automaton to respond to variations in its environment quicker and more precisely.

However, every time it performs a check, the overload value increases, so as the frequency of checks increases it will increase the possibility of an overload.

[Theytak]

It's buried somewhere in the huge PUP thread in General I think, but the text was pretty much copied verbatim to several wikis

So that's the verbatim? damn. I guess that kills the likelihood of my first theory, which would have been a lot simpler to test... though I probably will still test it just to be certain. At the moment, I'm trying to work out just what the automaton "checks" for, and jesus christ is there a lot of potential shit to account for...

though, I guess that may explain just why it's taken them so long to address AI issues, because the more I work at this, the more fucking complicated it gets, and it was already stupidly complicated to begin with...