The New Pulling Gripe Thread

[ferriswheel1]

The main reason people seem to want heavier objects (such as crates and lockers) to be difficult to pull is the severe under use of some very interesting transport systems for bigger objects. The pulling nerf was, I think, partly to encourage more use of these. 

Transport Systems 

• Belt Hell
  

• MULE bots
  
• Mail system
  
• Cargo Pads 
  
• Disposals chutes 
  
• Forklifts
  
• Cargo carts 
  
• Pod cargo bays
  

Transport systems didn't tend to get much use before the nerf, as dragging crates or lockers at full speed through the corridors will get it to your destination much much faster than any transport system. Most transport systems didn't get much use after the nerf, either, largely because of them being: 

• Still being too slow/inconvenient to use, with the best examples being belt hell and the MULE's 
  
• Mainly used by or given to quartermasters, one of the least played job roles. There weren't enough ways for ordinary crew to move stuff around easily. 
  
• Largely suited to long-distance transport, when most people just wanted to pull a crate a short distance. 
  
• Unreliable, in the case of many automated transport systems.  You never know when sending something off whether it'll be received, stolen or lost in the bowels of the station forever. 
  

In many ways, the pull slowdown was a very incomplete fix for getting transport systems used more, they're far too flawed and awkward to work well currently. They're an eclectic mess of different systems, some slightly useful, others frustratingly bad. I'm planning on posting a thread concerning how transport systems could be improved. I'd support slowing the movement of heavier objects only if transport systems could be improved to the point where they're preferable to pulling.