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Change floorbots settings - Decarcassor - 06-13-2022
Currently floorbots default settings don't allow them to actually repair floors. I think they just gather metal scraps and make more tiles that they don't end up using. You need an Engineering ID to unlock their controls and turn the settings on.
The peoples with convenient access to robotics fabricators, QMs and Roboticists, can't unlock the floorbots controls. Neither can borgs, as far as I know.
So either make floorbots have at least repair and maybe improve floors on by default or allow Roboticists and QMs (and silicons?) to unlock floorbots controls to turn thoses settings on.
We need this because repairing floors can be a tedious task which is exactly why we have floorbots; except the peoples who can make them can't turn the damn things on. And I see very little downside to this as you can turn the bots off with a click and Engineers who don't want holes repaired in the engine room can disable the settings and yell at the floorbot makers over the radio.