Goonhub
06-01-2020, 12:14 AM
Repairing breaches due to bombs, meteors, and such can be very rewarding but also very time consuming, sometimes it'll take longer to adequately repair a moderately sized breach than it does to just call the shuttle and leave. Usually the optimal way to seal a breach is to make a ton of floor tiles and just clicking like mad while running over the exposed area. After that it's just a waiting game of opening air canisters and turning on space heaters. And depending on the size of the breach or how much of the air was lost to space, it can take a very long time. I have a couple ideas to make it a bit quicker and less tedious to fix breaches:
- Metal foam grenades, or rather the metal foam itself should stop gasses from passing as soon as the foam spreads, not after it sets and becomes a wall/floor. This way you can use the metal foam grenades to quickly seal a breach without it venting all the atmosphere if you're quick/lucky enough.
- Let tiles instantly create floor when used on metal foam floors like how it does now from space. The metal foam floors are meant to be temporary. They can be destroyed by hitting it with any item really. But to properly replace them, you need to destroy them, thus opening up the area to space for a fraction of a second. But that still removes more atmosphere which is already a low supply.
- Floorbots should be able to target metal foam floors for replacement with steel tiles.
- Give engineering an RCD-like item in engineer lockers. A power cell/metal sheets/non-uquil based RCD that either can't deconstruct or deconstructs very slowly and loudly. It can construct steel tiles very quickly, and normal things like walls or windows. Only works on turfs that are already part of the station, so it can't really be used for new construction.
- Metal foam grenades, or rather the metal foam itself should stop gasses from passing as soon as the foam spreads, not after it sets and becomes a wall/floor. This way you can use the metal foam grenades to quickly seal a breach without it venting all the atmosphere if you're quick/lucky enough.
- Let tiles instantly create floor when used on metal foam floors like how it does now from space. The metal foam floors are meant to be temporary. They can be destroyed by hitting it with any item really. But to properly replace them, you need to destroy them, thus opening up the area to space for a fraction of a second. But that still removes more atmosphere which is already a low supply.
- Floorbots should be able to target metal foam floors for replacement with steel tiles.
- Give engineering an RCD-like item in engineer lockers. A power cell/metal sheets/non-uquil based RCD that either can't deconstruct or deconstructs very slowly and loudly. It can construct steel tiles very quickly, and normal things like walls or windows. Only works on turfs that are already part of the station, so it can't really be used for new construction.