Borg docking station improvements

[Jerkops]

I was reading this thread (http://forum.ss13.co/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4971) about suggested changes to the syndicate borg docking station and it made me wonder why the normal docking stations are so limited. The syndicate dock can make people into borgs with ease, so the technology is there; why can't the normal docking station do more?

Right now there is a lot of tedious fiddling with wrenches and screwdrivers and crowbars involved in trying to upgrade borgs. If the docking station can be used to replace modules and power cells, it should be able to handle the rest as well. It would be cool if you could load robotic parts (limbs and treads, chests, heads) into the docking station just like you can with clothes, power cells and modules, and use the docking station to install them on the borg inside. Maybe even make it so non-standard parts like synthetic or flesh limbs can be used by the borg docking stations if you have an upgrade.

[Frank_Stein]

I agree. No reason to not streamline things. Keep the old ways for the Robotocist that likes to be more involved and also doing it away from the lab, though.

[babayetu83]

please yes

[Spy_Guy]

I miss the olden days of opening up a borg's chest to upgrade power cells and add upgrades.

[TheOnlyRyan]

I miss the olden days of opening up a borg's chest to upgrade power cells and add upgrades.

This.

2 buttons pressed in a big machine takes the romance away between the rubut and ze rubuttacist

[DyssalC]

I wouldn't too terribly mind going back to the old ways, problem is nobody plays roboticist and that makes it unlikely you're going to get somebody to do that.

I mean, I hate to do this, but Robotics in Goon doesn't have the depth of Robotics in /tg/. You have no big project that you wanna work as a Roboticist, you're just a guy who builds robo frames and occasionally debrains a guy and borgs them just to watch the commit suicide.

[Jerkops]

I miss the olden days of opening up a borg's chest to upgrade power cells and add upgrades.

I do to, a little bit. But the stations are great because someone without a roboticist ID can still help out in some ways. And you still have to do it the old fashioned way if the power's out, if you're away from the lab or your docking stations are blown up. It's just that with the changes to robotics research presumably coming along it would be nice if some things were streamlined.

[Dabir]

Borgs can unlock their own interfaces now.