The change to the Russian Station should be reverted

[Wraithcraft]

I haven't played after the change was made and won't be able to for a while, but I really support this change. There's already three places with chem dispensers on every map, one of which is patho which is typically empty. There was no reason to go botanist because you could grow plants just as well if not better as an assistant in debris. Now you have to ask the AI or a botanist or the HoP to let you into hydro. Or you could break in. Or you could be a botanist yourself. I don't think off-station hydro or chem is needed and if it never existed it wouldn't be a thing people would ask for a lot since there are already ways to do hydro as a non-botanist and chem as a non-medicalsciencebarman.

the issue is you're basically leaving the goals of what people want to do in a round up to the whims of others.

I mean they did offer "break in" which requires nobody but yourself. Door hacking is so easy its kind of a joke.

i think off station hydroponics is the better option to keep on the shuttle. there are several chem dispensers on every station, and having all of them be destroyed before you're able to get a scan is improbable. there is only one hydroponics area on each station, and it can get crowded with multiple botanists. i'm all for the russian ship being used for botany only and having the chem dispenser removed.
(getting into the russian shuttle would probably be about as difficult as getting a quartermaster to buy you some trays.)