Thunderbrd
C2C War Dog
There you go... yes - Droid has generally been used since AND to indicate units beyond the Mech. I love the new term for more near-future robotics - Bots. I'd think these would generally be humanoid in shape and size usually and their AI might be incredibly imperfect, thus their greatest weakness. But even now the US Army is attempting to develop what under our new terminology would be 'Bot Infantry' units. So if THIS near tech region is what you were thinking with these then yes, the term Bot would be a cool new way to express that.I may need to just chnage its name to like Scout Robot or Scout Bot since I think the name "Droid" is making people think its more advanced than it is.
True... but remember that spies and non-spies caused issues when one was allowed to be an upgrade to another. We discovered this to be problematic when we were working with the first version of Thieves and Rogues if you recall. Can't remember what all the problems were - only that there were some definite issues there.Well we do have a Nanite Spy unit I could see the Scout Mech upgrading into that or some unit like it. Also we do have Drone Aircraft already in the game too.
I'd suggest:Motorcycle (X70) -> ? (X?) -> Walker Droid (X91) -> Scout Droid (X95)
Motorcycle (X70) -> Bubble Bike (8X? We do have them now - they're just not commonly utilized in RL for military application but you can see something like them in use in Command and Conquer) -> Walker Droid (X91) -> Scout Droid (X95)
Breach from Bubble Bike to Hover Bike at around the same point as Walker Droid and differentiate the role but retain Recon for both. Reason: AI vs still Human Guided. We also have a (should be established) branch-off from Motorcycle to Lunar Rover but I'm not going to suggest to worry about that until multi-maps. And yes, that's probably a good spot for the Interplanetary Rover such as we have on Mars (and now the Moon thanks to China.)