This sounds like a very interesting idea.
About the comments of Yue and Zig.. Yes I do understand how bad it can sometimes be when all of a sudden you get robots, aliens, and what not in a game, but this seems like a genuinely good idea.
Having a semi-sentient or fully sentient race of robots somewhere would provide for some interesting role play and situations.
Although we do already have the Harvesters, some variety would not hurt, and the Harveys and these robots would not mind each other.
Personally, I like the idea of it all, if it's done properly.
If you need any help with it, Dreygon, give me a shout.
And also a note: Perhaps all of you are right in saying that the RP of pure AI might be a tad minimalistic. But it can be very interesting, Balt's example up there is just one example of all the spontaneous things that can be done.
And furthermore, if these robots would at least in some measure attempt, and I stress attempt, to imitate human behavior, I really think this could turn into something great.
All depends on a lot of circumstances though..
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