Goonhub
05-30-2019, 11:44 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-31-2019, 12:02 AM by kyle2143. Edited 1 time in total.)
I've thought this as well. I think that your suggestion to require two prodoc eyes to get the upgrade prodoc goggles effect is a good solution. The level 1 effect is border line useless except in cases of extreme triage. Not to mention, nobody ever really uses Pro Doc eyes, probably because they don't have this feature.
I think that creating a whole new "advanced prodoc eye" item that is somehow harder to get or requires more rare materials in the fabricator is tricky. It might just be a personal thing for me, and it might not be as bad on the rp server where there is slightly more inter-departmental collaberation, but it would likely see very little usage similar to the laser cybereye. And the laser eye you can at least use to kill people! If there existed a reasonable way for non-miners to be able to get materials other than steel and pharosium then this would be a more viable solution IMO. I'm okay with hiding dangerous equipment behind this sort of barrier, but I don't think it need hide prodocs.
I've also thought of requiring giving the health analyzer upgrade to the eye as you've suggested. It makes sense. But you're right that it would just lead to a decline in available upgrades.
But I still like the idea of upgrading the cyber eye so that it can work with the level 2 effect while only using one eye. Long ago I thought it would be fun to have some way to "hack" cyber organs to do more fun effects. Like let you do something like door hacking to activate and deactivate parts of a cyber organ's circuitry. Like give roboticists a machine in which they can plop in an organ and muck about with it.
But that's beside the point. I can't imagine making 2 cyber eyes give you the level 2 pro doc effect being very hard, and it will make pro doc eyes see a lot more use I would think. Also I might take the other part of your suggestion too, put a box with a pair of cybereyes in the Medical Director's locker.
I think that creating a whole new "advanced prodoc eye" item that is somehow harder to get or requires more rare materials in the fabricator is tricky. It might just be a personal thing for me, and it might not be as bad on the rp server where there is slightly more inter-departmental collaberation, but it would likely see very little usage similar to the laser cybereye. And the laser eye you can at least use to kill people! If there existed a reasonable way for non-miners to be able to get materials other than steel and pharosium then this would be a more viable solution IMO. I'm okay with hiding dangerous equipment behind this sort of barrier, but I don't think it need hide prodocs.
I've also thought of requiring giving the health analyzer upgrade to the eye as you've suggested. It makes sense. But you're right that it would just lead to a decline in available upgrades.
But I still like the idea of upgrading the cyber eye so that it can work with the level 2 effect while only using one eye. Long ago I thought it would be fun to have some way to "hack" cyber organs to do more fun effects. Like let you do something like door hacking to activate and deactivate parts of a cyber organ's circuitry. Like give roboticists a machine in which they can plop in an organ and muck about with it.
But that's beside the point. I can't imagine making 2 cyber eyes give you the level 2 pro doc effect being very hard, and it will make pro doc eyes see a lot more use I would think. Also I might take the other part of your suggestion too, put a box with a pair of cybereyes in the Medical Director's locker.