Goonhub
07-26-2013, 02:46 PM
I offer this perspective:
1. The startup guide still recommends less-than-ideal gases. New players attempting to follow it often lose interest after a couple of failed attempts.
2. Whenever there's an interested engineer willing to listen and learn, acting as a mentor can be very rewarding for both parties. However, having to frequently deal with unreceptive colleagues who insist on dumping every available canister of CO2/N2 into the loops gets tiresome fast. That's why many experienced players stopped picking that job.
3. Consequently, new guys have nobody to watch.
See the problem? Implementing draconian measures to make the position as insufferable as possible won't help a bit to attract recruits, much less turn them into capable additions to the department. Also consider that engineers usually do a good job at damage control, i. e. tending to hull breaches, fires and hacked doors - it's not all about the engine.
One way to address the issue may be to rewrite the guide. Instead of the suboptimal CO2/N2 recommendation, let it refer to the easy and safe method of using plasma in both loops and furnaces only.
1. The startup guide still recommends less-than-ideal gases. New players attempting to follow it often lose interest after a couple of failed attempts.
2. Whenever there's an interested engineer willing to listen and learn, acting as a mentor can be very rewarding for both parties. However, having to frequently deal with unreceptive colleagues who insist on dumping every available canister of CO2/N2 into the loops gets tiresome fast. That's why many experienced players stopped picking that job.
3. Consequently, new guys have nobody to watch.
See the problem? Implementing draconian measures to make the position as insufferable as possible won't help a bit to attract recruits, much less turn them into capable additions to the department. Also consider that engineers usually do a good job at damage control, i. e. tending to hull breaches, fires and hacked doors - it's not all about the engine.
One way to address the issue may be to rewrite the guide. Instead of the suboptimal CO2/N2 recommendation, let it refer to the easy and safe method of using plasma in both loops and furnaces only.